Current and Recent Projects
Sterile Laureate
The Sound of Belonging: Toward an Ontology of Relation
A dystopian fiction project that explores power, identity, performance, and humanity within a controlled and hierarchical world. This work reflects another side of my writing life—one shaped by atmosphere, symbolism, and the emotional tension between order and freedom.
The Sound of Belonging: Toward an Ontology of Relation
The Sound of Belonging: Toward an Ontology of Relation
Available in November 2026
The Sound of Belonging: Toward an Ontology of Relation is a philosophical novel structured through musical movements, exploring the gradual shift from understanding reality as a collection of discrete things toward recognizing existence as relational, continuous, and always becoming. Through recurring motifs of music, silence, attention, systems, timing, and other people, the narrative follows a musician whose increasingly sophisticated observations begin to reveal that identity and meaning do not exist independently, but emerge through the relationships that make them possible.
At its core, The Sound of Belonging asks a different kind of question: What if belonging is not simply something we feel, but something fundamental to what it means to exist? The novel explores the possibility that a note belongs through its relation to other notes, a moment through its relation to time, a person through an unfolding network of relations, and even absence through its relation to what is present. Rather than seeking a final resolution, the novel moves toward an ontology in which relation, difference, continuity, and change are not competing conditions, but inseparable dimensions of existence.
Why I Write
Why I Write
I write because some ideas need more room than conversation allows. Writing gives me a way to reflect, question, imagine, and build. It helps me bring together the different parts of my life—music, teaching, leadership, creativity, philosophy, and lived experience—into something I can offer others.
At the heart of my writing is a simple belief: people deserve to be seen not only for what they can produce, but for who they are. Whether I am writing about education, music, disability, or fictional worlds, I return again and again to questions of humanity, access, and meaning.