Crystal is that friend who shows up to brunch with purple streaks in her black hair, combat boots paired with a vintage band tee, and a tattoo that's either a phoenix or a dragon depending on the light—she'll never tell.

Recently turned thirty, with winged eyeliner sharp enough to kill a man and a deadpan delivery that makes you question if she's joking (she is, usually), she writes the kind of stories that take everything you thought you knew and sets it gleefully on fire.

Her workspace is controlled chaos meets cat sanctuary aesthetic: crystals she may or may not believe in, a ‘Story Cube’ dice set she sometimes uses for plot development, fairy lights strung everywhere, and shelves packed with everything from classic fantasy to the weirdest indie novels you've never heard of.

There's always either dark roast coffee or a hazelnut cappuccino in a mug that says something sarcastic, usually with a cat pic, a playlist featuring her own lyrics put to AI background music that her mother would never have approved of (God rest her soul), and at least three partially finished manuscripts because focus is overrated.

She writes YA/NA, supernatural, magical realism, and fractured fairy tales because the traditional versions are boring as hell. Why write Cinderella when you can write about what happens when Cinderella becomes a rebel with a cause and there are NO glass slippers, just a magical moonstone that will grant only 1 wish… and she needs to make it a good one so that EVERYONE benefits. And why tell Sleeping Beauty straight when you can reimagine it, flip it, gut it, and reassemble it into something beautiful and terrible and utterly unrecognizable?

Crystal's stories cater to new adults and young adults who never quite fit in, who felt too dark for the light crowd and too weird for the normal people. Her characters are messy, neurodivergent, angry, powerful, and unapologetically themselves. They don't wait for princes; they burn down kingdoms in the name of justice. They don’t run to mom, dad, or a rich boyfriend; they make and fix their own problems. They don't accept their fate; they rewrite destiny with bloody hands and zero regrets.

Her deal breakers: sanitized magic, chosen ones who are special just because, romance that overshadows plot, and stories that pretend being different isn't hard. She writes the complicated stuff—the magic that costs something, the power that corrupts, the love that saves but could also destroy if you’re not careful.

Crystal believes there’s a story everywhere if you just look and listen… that fairy tales lied to us, and she's here to tell the truth: magic is dangerous, happily-ever-after is sometimes just propaganda, and we should always consider that the villain may have had a really good point.

Her retellings aren't "dark"—they're honest about what those stories actually meant, what HER stories mean, and what they cost.

She collects vintage fairy tale books specifically to deface them with annotations about what really should have happened, attends Renaissance fairs in character as various reimagined princesses, and has strong opinions about which Disney movies are problematic (spoiler: most of them).

Crystal writes with sarcasm as sharp as broken glass and tenderness that sneaks up on you when you least expect it. Her stories say: you don't have to be good to be worthy, monsters can be heroes, and sometimes burning it all down is the only way to start something new (and NO, she’s NOT talking about arsen).

She writes for the weird kids, the outcasts, the ones who saw the fairy tale ending and thought "but what about after?" She writes bleeding, upside-down, gloriously fractured stories because normal tales usually only save one particular person and hey! What about everyone else who needs saving?

And if that makes her the villain in someone else's story? That’s okay. Villains get the best lines, anyway.Write your text here...