Renda

I write for the people who were strong because they had no choice.

My stories center on addiction, motherhood, adoption, education, and the unseen labor of holding families and systems together. I believe resilience is complicated, healing isn’t linear, and silence deserves language.

This page features work from my memoir Under the BIG TOP – Living with CONSTANT Circus Music—a true story about life under constant pressure and the courage it takes to imagine rest.