Game Over Books, paperback
Publication Date: April 29, 2025
Publisher Marketing: In Raised Ranch, the reader is taken room by room through a house haunted by ghosts of lovers' past, former selves who haunt the staircases and thesholds they once occupied with ease, the child who never was and never got to be, and the promises, both broken and kept, that begs the unknowable question: Was it all worth it? While the hallways may be dark and lurking at times, our wounded protagonist weaves humor and whimsy into a no-frills exploration of love and loss, grief, & grit. And while she sometimes asks her reader to hold her hand a little tighter through the passage, she wants you to know that she is brave for staying, asks you to linger a little longer with her in the doorways, and not to say goodbye so soon. A foremost full-length poetry manuscript, Raised Ranch is a work of hard-looks at the tenderest parts, and a decluttering of shadows that guides our reader to the room with the most exposed walls yet: the one where hope leaves on the light and the door stays open indefinitely.
