Writer, Coach, Speaker

Back Cover Description:  Having recently gotten married, landed her first corporate management job and purchased her first home, 28 year o ld Azure thought she had finally overcome her past. But nearly choking to death on her own vomit after yet another secretive binge forced her to seek professional help and confront the origins of her consuming and shame filled behavior of compulsive eating and extreme dieting. This raw, illuminating and tragically comic book is the story of child Azure struggling to survive her upbringing by a brilliant, sociopathic father who starved and belittled her as well as adult Azure attempting to save her marriage and her psyche while contending with her preoccupation with food, her body, a fat-phobic society, and her insatiable hunger for love and acceptance. 

Accomplishments: Fullness has been used in 9+ Universities in English, Humor Writing and Psychology Programs, was the subject of a keynote speech to the California Association of Teachers of English Conference, has a 4 1/2  star rating on Amazon and has helped many people with disordered eating and/or an abusive upbringing. 

Children's Book cowritten with Azure's seven year old daughter

Back Cover Blurb: My Dog is Kinda Rude explores all of the hilariously rude behavior any dog lover will recognize in their furry friends.   

Acclaim: 

• "Such a fun and witty story about the joys of having a dog. The kind of book my kids will want to read over and over again!"                      - Sarah Hernandez, Teacher and School Director
• "The depiction of the dog's behavior is spot on, especially the unconditional love [that accompanies] being rude!" -Julia Jessee, Julian Mountain Doodles