About Athena

✦ A little about me ✦

Hi, I’m Athena.

I’m an introverted, moon-obsessed Gemini with about forty-seven tabs open in my brain at any given moment, and at least twelve of them are about people who don’t exist.

I write the kind of stories I love getting lost in. Dark and romantic and a little strange, with murder in them, and secrets that should have stayed buried, and people making decisions I would never make (and a few I definitely would). The kind where you realize three chapters later why that one oddly specific sentence felt off.

I function in chaos. My brain spins and I’m just along for the ride, which is why I’ve rewritten my stories and chapters 666216216596 times before I even think about publishing. One idea sparks another overhaul. I don’t really do outlines. I live in a gentle tornado of ideas and somehow pull the strings together as I go.

I’ve been writing since I was twelve. It was my therapy. I started with poems about how I felt, what I wished I could feel, and what I hoped would happen, and I wrote about love a lot, what it was and what it could be. I was also the girl who walked out of the library every two weeks with a stack of books half as tall as she was. I’ve spent most of my life reading or writing, and a lot of it doing both.

I love hiding breadcrumbs. I’ve spent an absurd amount of time tucking more and more of them into my books, because the one thing I really can’t stand is a flat story.

Remnants of the First is where all of that chaos starts, beginning with First Echoes. It’s my debut series and I’ve been building it for a few years now. I actually drafted another series before this one, but that one’s my baby and still needs some love, and I’m drafting a standalone right now too.

There are more worlds in my head already.

Probably more murder, too.

Anyway. Haiiiiii. 💜

Welcome to my head. I hope you enjoy the ride.