About me
I was born on the Cape Flats in South Africa and now live in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I write fiction that lives in the space between memory and silence, between what we inherit and what we choose to carry.
By day, I run a small permaculture consulting business. By night, I write about ghosts that have nothing to do with the supernatural. My debut novel, Colored Affairs, began in fragments, handwritten in old notebooks when I first arrived in America in 2006. I was a newlywed then, navigating the raw wonder and quiet disorientation of cultural shift, building a career, and raising young children in a place that didn’t yet feel like home. The book lived beside me through all of it, growing in the margins of everyday life. It’s a quiet reckoning, a story about the private aftermath of public history, the things men don’t say, and the truths that echo long after they’ve left the room. For me, it is not just fiction. It is the long echo of where I’m from, and the silence I had to write through to remember it.
Lately, my attention has turned toward the future, and the forces already shaping it. I’m deeply concerned with the unchecked rise of artificial intelligence, the expanding influence of technocratic systems, and the widening wealth gap driven by corporate greed and technological acceleration. These are not abstract concerns. They are lived realities, pressing in on us from every direction. I believe in the urgent need for ethical governance, real economic reform, and public resistance to the automation of human worth.
At the same time, I’ve begun using AI in my own creative process, not to replace the work, but to amplify it. I use it as a tool to spread good ideas, to accelerate access, and to reach readers who might not otherwise hear these stories. The irony isn’t lost on me. But neither is the opportunity. The same tools that threaten to erase us can also be used to remind us what matters — if we stay awake.
That tension lives inside Apex of Power, my new young adult series co-written with AI. Set in a near future shaped by inequality, digital control, and economic awakening, the series explores themes of land justice, moral courage, and the quiet revolutionary power of ideas. The spirit of Henry George runs through it; reshaped for a generation born into algorithms. The first book will be available at the end of September through various online retailers.
My writing continues to be shaped by thinkers who refused to look away: Henry George for his fierce clarity on justice, Jiddu Krishnamurti for his uncompromising honesty, and Kurt Vonnegut for his ability to laugh at the end of the world without losing heart.
Thank you for reading. And more importantly, for thinking.