In the aftermath of the 2024 election, I found myself unable to sleep and unable to look away from the horror that was unfolding in this country I love. By late March, I had sunk into a depression that felt both personal and collective. As a way forward, I began drawing from my own experience…
Photo by Carly Otness
A lot of my pieces during a time of major rupture in my life were of mistaken identity and mirroring. As I suffered through and tried to bridge across this liminal landscape, fantasy images of self populated my work. For instance, this piece (made into a short film several years later by Ethan Messecar).
On the eve of his coronation as Pharaoh, eleven-year-old Amenhotep struggles with his father’s recent death and the responsibilities of his future reign. Haunted by memories of abuse and the expectations of the court, he battles inner turmoil as priests and priestesses perform rituals for the dead pharaoh. His mother, Mutemwiya, pressures him to choose…
I wrote the lyrics and was co-producer & recording engineer (for Andi’s vocals and acoustic guitar). Mixed by Jason Mariani.
I co-wrote the lyrics and was co-producer and recording engineer (for Andi’s vocals). Mixed by Jordan Richter.
Music by Jordan Richter
Found footage from 2004, a few months before 3 sisters take their minister-father to trial. This follows the story of the memoir.
HARBOR DAUGHTER is an 85,000-word LGBTQ+ upmarket literary novel with a touch of fantasy. Narrated in close third person, it explores post-war PTSD, generational trauma, and queer identity during the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” era. Lt. Tamsin Sand, a Naval officer and former POW, returns to Portland, Oregon, three years after surviving captivity in Iraq with…
This epic religious fantasy is a 186,000-word retelling of the life of Moses (drawn from Sund’s research on the Torah for his Ph.D. in Mythological Studies ). The novel in five “books” follows themes and stories from each book of the Torah. Early readings elicited this response: “Asher’s novel, House of Life, is the best…