Hi! Welcome, and thanks for visiting.
I’m a writer living in Southern California. My memoir, Becoming the Ocean—about the two spent two years I spent sailing across the Pacific Ocean on my boat, Delos, and the dissolution of my marriage along the way—is forthcoming in 2026.
I also have a Substack newsletter where I explore some of the themes I write about in my book, like how the stories we tell ourselves to survive often keep us from living, my journey from people-pleasing to wholeness, self-betrayal, the ocean as transformation, and the long journey home to authenticity.
When I’m not writing, you can find me hiking on the trails near my home, or frolicking in the chilly Pacific Ocean.
Becoming the Ocean: A Memoir (forthcoming in 2026)
Erin thought two years at sea would save her marriage.
Instead, it launched her on an unexpected journey of self-discovery.
In her early thirties, suffocating under the weight of a lie that has begun to unravel her sense of self, Erin sets sail with her husband, Brian, on a 10,000-mile voyage across the Pacific. What begins as an escape quickly becomes a reckoning. On the open ocean, there is nowhere left to hide.
Far from shore, Erin is forced to confront a painful truth: saving her marriage might mean losing herself.
Juxtaposing the awe-inspiring, boundless beauty of the open ocean with the claustrophobic, high-stakes tension of a fracturing marriage, Becoming the Ocean is a raw, fiercely honest, and deeply introspective story about a woman confronting the ways she has performed goodness, chosen safety over truth, and stayed too long in a life that no longer felt like her own.