about

the misfit west began as a place to set down the stories that refused to be quiet.

essays carved out of wind, rupture, high-plains hush, and the long afterlife of family.

i write from the edges—geographical, emotional, ancestral.

what this place holds

dispatches from the high plains.
personal essays on grief, estrangement, inheritance, recovery, and the strange grace of beginning again.
writing that doesn’t chase resolution—only honesty.

about the writer

i’m a therapist by training and a writer by instinct, shaped by wide horizons and the kind of wind that teaches you not to flinch.
my work is rooted in lived experience—grief, survival, the long crawl back to myself—and in a stubborn affection for the west that raised me.
the misfit west is where the fragments find their form.