The unifying thread of my career is storytelling. After starting out as a television news reporter and anchor, I became a professor at Wake Forest University where I teach courses in media studies and screenwriting.
I’m a documentary filmmaker, have written and edited many scholarly books and articles, and see my work as storytelling for the purpose of making sense of the world around us and finding meaning.
The novel Saving Arcadia: A Southern Mosaic is an extension of previous work, which often includes themes related to community. Curious? Here’s the pitch:
In 2018, a widowed schoolteacher and a Lutheran pastor bring twenty-seven Guatemalan refugees to a North Carolina town–one divided by race and a depressed economy–but even though tragedy comes to Arcadia, not everyone there is afraid of change.