Writing has never been a choice for me. It is a compulsion, woven into the very fabric of who I am. It is through writing that I make sense of the world: its power struggles, its contradictions, its fragility. I am drawn to narratives that challenge, unsettle, and force both reader and writer to confront uncomfortable truths. It is through writing that I make sense of myself.

I have always been captivated by the ways words shape history and how the greatest revolutions began with words, not weapons. Literature, much like politics, is about control, narrative, and perception. This fascination has shaped both my academic and creative pursuits. My background in World Politics has given me the tools to analyze power, but writing allows me to narrate it. Through writing, I explore the tension between individual agency and systemic power, ideology, and lived experience.

For me, writing is not separate from political analysis, it is a deeper form of it. It allows me to move beyond theory and into human experience. In fiction, ideology can be as much a weapon as a blade. In essays, I can interrogate the structures that shape us. My academic pursuits have given me the ability to merge history and storytelling to make narratives feel real, urgent, and immersive. 

I write because I have to. Because storytelling is both an inheritance and an interrogation. Because words have always been the lens through which I understand the world and my place in it.