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Three Days Left! A moment to remember. 8 Aug 2013 | 08:24 am
Just three full days left of my residency now, but right now I've hit a big milestone. I've gone through and revised my entire novel for the ??th time. Five years into rewriting this manuscript, he...
Doin the Catwalk 4 Aug 2013 | 08:10 am
Five days into my Catwalk Artist Residency, one week to go. Already produced a poem, two essays, and am doing some serious work on my novel. So grateful for this time and space. My studio in the t...
Catwalk Art Residency 24 May 2013 | 02:21 am
Delayed announcement: I got into the Catwalk Art Residency this summer and will be attending in August. http://www.catwalkartresidency.com It's my first residency so I'm excited to go have some qua...
Publication! 6 Mar 2013 | 11:25 am
My essay "The Awkward Threesome: Geek Nerd Dork" which appeared first here as a blog post, but has been edited and revised and developed in the year since, is now published on truthout.org Check it o...
SF Zine Fest! 3 Sep 2012 | 07:29 am
Had a blast at Zine Fest today with fellow "New Bay Area Voices" writers Keely Hyslop and Pam Benjamin. Got to hob nob with friends and fellow artists and subversive culture makers. I sold poetry ch...
I got into Tin House Writers Workshop this Summer! 18 Apr 2012 | 12:01 pm
I just launched an indiegogo campaign (a crowdsourcing software like kickstarter) to help me raise funds for the Tin House Writers Workshop this summer in Portland. The total cost of the workshop is ...
Gay Bashing High School assembly in Iowa 15 Mar 2012 | 02:18 pm
Wow. I just found this super scary gay bashing high school assembly in Iowa. A Christian rock group tried to show kids how cool it is to hate. Since my novel is about gay teens in Iowa, things lik...
"The Geek-Nerd-Dork Trifecta"-- excerpt from new one-person show in progress (title TBD) 18 Dec 2011 | 03:55 pm
My primary identity is nerd, but my moon is in geek and I have a dork ascendant. These days, everyone wants to be a geek. Maybe they think they’ll make more money in the tech industry or seem slight...
Four deaths. Three weeks. That we know about. 1 Oct 2010 | 07:48 pm
Four LGBT teens commit suicide in three weeks Wake up call. I keep getting these stories in my newsfeed. All these suicides, all these bullied queer kids. They are happening one after the other. I.....
La, La, Lambda...Don't Mean Maybe 24 Aug 2010 | 09:41 pm
Points if you know what band I'm riffing on for my blog post title. Bonus points for the album. Can you tell I'm back in the classroom already? :) On the other side of the desk, that is. The oth....