Storytelling is alchemy.
When we share our stories, we transform not only ourselves but also our worlds.
I’m a writer, podcaster, and storyteller whose work explores our forgotten histories, unresolved griefs, and the magical journeys that shape us.
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Can unearthing a century-old mystery help a grieving mother heal?
In the aftermath of my daughter’s tragic death, I became obsessed with solving a hundred-year-old whodunit related to a ghostly woman we’d encountered the winter before everything went wrong. But what began as a historical true crime investigation turned into a meditation on grief, resilience, and the quiet, complicated ways we try to make peace with the unbearable unknown.
My debut novel
Simon Peters is hiding from his horrific past in the basement of the Calgary City Library binding books, when he meets Minerva. Her ghostly resemblance to Simon’s dead sister drives him to reveal the shocking ways his family was killed, each death by a natural disaster more inconceivable than the last. But it isn’t until Simon finds himself at risk of losing Minerva, too, that he’s able to confront the truth about what really happened to his family that fateful summer, and the devastating role he played in the tragedy that followed.
Nerys’ Blog
Nerys and Ivan take off on an Adventure
In 2025, my husband Ivan and I took off to travel the continent in our retrofitted Sprinter Van. Interested in travel and book updates? Sign up for regular updates from NerVan-Ah.
…a delightfully quirky and strange story with a narrative that is in turns funny and heartbreaking.”
An engaging and thoughtful piece of Canadian literature.”
…passages that beg to be read over and over…”