Writing Science Fiction in Science Fiction Times.

I never set out to be an author, though many that know me would argue this fate was always in the cards.

I was always a nerdy child, raised in the northern side of the Los Angeles basin. Much of my inspiration comes from growing up in proximity to Hollywood and watching my father work on films in the audio editing department. In high school, I fell in love with my favorite machine — the printing press. This passion led me to study page design in university (Long Beach State). Here I also learned advertising, graphic design, animation, sculpture, and art history. At this time I was also working for Disney in their theme parks (2016-2019).

In 2019, I began working as a Gallery Attendant for the Museum of Contemporary Art in downtown Los Angeles. By March 2020, everything had shut down and I found myself flung across the country to Boston for my partner’s job. In 2021 when the world began to reopen, I started working at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art, initially as a Visitor Assistant (same job, different title) before moving up to a Gallery Operator position. This job allowed me to talk art every day with anyone who would listen, when I wasn’t running the gallery floor of the museum.

I’m passionate about art, about blurring the lines of “high” and “low” art, and about making art comprehension accessible to all. Seeing the pressures that the new era placed on the power of art — splitting content from creative expression — inspired me to learn an entirely new ( or rather, very old) medium: books. While at the museum, I began to imagine numerous adventures within the labyrinthine halls and needed to figure out ways to jot my ideas down. Eventually, I left the museum world behind so that I could work on an independent video game with my partner. I handled level design, art assets, animation, and story for Salem Street Games, though all are still in development.

The AnarkHive project spun off from a short-lived video game concept. From 2024-2025 I spent my free time learning how to write science fiction from scratch. In July 2025, I took my manuscript to the Ad Astra Novel Architects workshop. Here I took the criticism to heart and used the opportunity to rewrite my book. The rewriting process began in November 2025 and finished in February 2026. Since then, the book has been in beta reading and editing. It is currently being queried for representation.

Artistically, I’m intrigued by questions of art production’s relationship to technology, particularly amid humanity’s next greatest shakeup. Artificial Intelligence is not the tool for me, but the pressures it places on our established systems of existence raises intriguing ideas of how humans will respond next. Science fiction felt like the only medium with the language and method for resilience. Art’s due for a shakeup, and I want to be an impressionist.