Do you know that feeling when a path feels less like a choice and more like a calling?
For me, that path is writing. I fell in love with words around the same time I fell in love with medicine—when I was four and my grandmother gave me The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
Like many firstborn children, I chose the sensible path. I became an ICU nurse, and raised five children. Later, I shifted into health and wellness coaching after my own misdiagnosis at age forty-five. I loved that work—the clients, the retreats—but writing never left me.
At nine, I wrote a poem for my mother that won an award, and I’ve been chasing that quiet magic ever since. By twelve, I was filling diaries; by fourteen, writing plays; and by sixteen, certain that an electric typewriter would make me a novelist.
In 2017, a family member’s Facebook post pulled me deeper into the genealogy research I had begun in 2002. As I traced my roots, I discovered the life of my fourteenth-generation grandmother. Her voice may be lost to history, but her story could have been any woman’s.
My first trip to Scotland, later that summer, felt like coming home.
By 2024, I had completed my first historical fiction novel—book one of a planned trilogy. I am now represented by Christine Concepcion of Don Congdon and Associates and am editing the second novel.
I believe God doesn’t give us gifts without also making a way for them to be shared.
My work is shaped by a love of history, a reverence for detail, and a passion for uncovering the stories of women who were silenced. Through fiction, I explore themes of agency, sacrifice, and identity. I’m drawn to eras when women were rarely seen as authors of their own fate.
I’m grateful you’ve found your way here.
Xx Trish
