Current Projects
(in-progress website)
Who's Afraid of Hollywood?
a short film
in pre-production
A infamous lesbian director. An ambitious transmasc actor.
They collide at a country estate for a high-stakes audition that obliterates boundaries between performance and reality
Crashing America
a feature film in development
On The Beach At Night
a stage play
Can an elderly theoretical physicist and young poet find a common language?
Deep Fake
a stage play
A lonely AI programmer searches for meaning in artifice while battling election fraud.
Crashing America
a novel
"It's like if Janis Joplin wrote a novel and didn't die on us, but sang the whole damn thing." — Author Eileen Myles
BIO
I'm a San Francisco-based author and screenwriter. In the past, I've worked as a roofer, bartender, choreographer, journalist, stripper, instructional designer, kitten fosterer, user story developer, editor, and storyteller for the elderly.
As an avid sky watcher, I love walking at twilight, reading about cloud types, and spotting constellations: Corona Borealis and the Pleiades are two of my favorites.
I truly love collaborating with passionate actors, directors, and other dreamers to make art that explores the predicament of being human.
To quote George Santayana: "Poets and philosophers sometimes talk as if life were an entertainment, a feast of ordered sensations; but the poets, if not the philosophers, know too well in their hearts that life is no such thing; it is a predicament.
"We are caught in it; it is something compulsory, urgent, dangerous, and tempting. We are surrounded by enormous, mysterious, only half-friendly forces."
Over 70 agents and publishers passed on my first novel, CRASHING AMERICA, before a small gay press claimed it. Now a recipient of many honors, it is taught in universities worldwide and considered a landmark work of LGBTQ+ literature. When Alexander Street Press chose it for its academic collection, they listed its topics as criminals, death, runaways, and lesbianism (!)
A punk singer writing for the travel site Culture Trip, chose me as one of Seven Amazing Female Contemporary Writers from SF, but in reality, there are hundreds.