Victoria Claflin was only ten when she heard a prophecy that she'd rise from obscurity to power. Fueled by instinct and tenacity, she battled the naysayers of the Gilded Age to become America's first female presidential candidate. Now, over a century later, playwright Avery watches political division destroy her rural Ohio community and finds inspiration from a controversial hometown heroine. Could unearthing Victoria’s full story help unite Avery's fractured community, or will it lead to further division?

Radicals is a timely historical novel about two pioneering women who sought truth over convenience.

​"Radicals creates a thoroughly absorbing contrast of times and attitudes which ultimately leads its characters into empowerment and social responsibility. Readers … will relish the involving, revealing circumstances which make these worlds vivid and exceptional.  

Book clubs that choose Radicals for its promise of women’s history, biography, and interesting challenges will find lively discussions will evolve from a story that simmers with interest as it delves into a fictional representation of Victoria’s life and times." 

–Midwest Book Review

Also forthcoming: AT WORK, memoir. (Cornerstone Press, 2027)

Disembodied won the Montana Prize in Nonfiction and was published in CutBank Literary Magazine in 2023. It was reprinted by SFWP Quarterly in 2025.

Jen Knox’s memoir reads like fiction. A self-conscious fourteen-year-old protagonist with crooked teeth begins her journey into self-reliance oing from grocery sacker to dishwasher to factory worker to stripper by the time she’s twenty years old. Knox offers snapshots of a time, coming of age in the 1990s and maturing into the 2000s, deftly weaving brand names and pop icons into the story to situate her readers. –K.P. Davis, author of Trust Issues

Praise for “Disembodied” from Joni Tevis: “I was immersed in this essay from the very first line. 'Imagine a young woman,' the speaker invites the reader to do; I did. The dream of being someone 'degreed and respected, a woman people will listen to'; a woman with a house, yard, and 'sweet dog with an underbite' (yes!) was a dream that hit home with me. I wanted this for her, and when I saw her hurt in body and mind, leaning against the wall of a Goody Boy, I had to find out what had brought her there—and how she would move on from it... And this piece manages the impressive feat of both depending on the feeling of separation from the body, and putting the reader into the lived, grounded experience of this speaker. The essay earns its powerful conclusion: '…I see a young woman who bears down with the strength of a warrior, while her body rises.' The ground pushed back. I feel honored to have read your story. Thank you.”