Hi!
I’m a writer living in southern California. My debut memoir, Becoming the Ocean, will be available in 2026. I also have a Substack newsletter where I explore themes of self-betrayal, resilience, and the long journey home to authenticity.
Before becoming a writer, I spent two years sailing across the Pacific Ocean—an experience that still shapes the questions I ask on the page.
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.