Stories that help kids feel seen and adults think deeper.
Children’s Books
I write children’s books that center kindness, emotional honesty, and belonging, especially for sensitive, curious kids.
Ottie the Otter
A picture book series for big feelings
The Ottie the Otter series Offers gentle stories about navigating sensory experiences, new situations, and navigating the world with care and resilience.
Ottie the Otter is having his very first day and everything feels new, loud and a little overwhelming. With kindness, patience and self-love, Ottie learns that it’s okay to move at his own pace.
Ottie the Otter is having a day where everything feels too loud, too fast, and too much. With gentle pauses and steady breaths, he learns it’s okay to find calm inside himself even when the world doesn’t quiet.
Ottie the Otter is going to Mexico for a holiday, but new places, loud airports and unfamiliar sites make his tummy feel tight with gentle support and one brave step at a time Audi learns that going slow can turn scary moments into something sweet.
The Boy Named Ruby
A child with a heart full of colours, searches the world to explain who they are in the world that keeps telling them who they should be. When a quiet truth finally finds its name, The Boy Named Ruby becomes a tender story about self-discovery, belonging, and being loved exactly as you are.
Adult Literature
I Believe Her is a work of creative non-fiction that bears witness to trauma, survival, and quiet violence of systems that failed to protect you. Through lived experience and careful truth telling, Jill Bye-Durant explores what it means to be believe survivors and the cost of silence when we do not.
I Believe Her
Drowning, Still Singing
Drowning, Still Singing is a raw poetry collection about survival, motherhood, rage, love and the long work of telling the truth after harm. These poems bear witness to what it costs to stay alive and what it means to keep singing anyway