I spent more than twenty years abroad as an American expatriate, including over a decade in Madagascar during a time of political upheaval, the island’s gemstone boom, and a surge of foreign interest. While raising two of my three children there, I worked independently as well as intermittently with the U.S. Embassy, the United Nations, and the American School of Antananarivo. Immersed in that landscape, I experienced the expatriate life from many angles—perspectives that now shape my fiction with cultural insight, moral complexity, and emotional depth. Emerald International is my debut novel. You can sign up to get updates about my writing here.