Hello! Thanks for coming by. I'm a San Francisco-based author, screenwriter, and most recently filmmaker. To support myself as an artist, I've worked as a roofer, choreographer, journalist, stripper, kitten fosterer, user story developer, editor, and storyteller for the elderly. As an educational instructional designer, I co-wrote and developed the first Webby Award-winning math and science curriculum.​​
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CRASHING AMERICA (Alyson) was my first novel. Over 70 agents and publishers rejected it before finding a home with a small gay press. It is now taught in universities all over the world and is considered a landmark work of LGBT+ literature. It was a finalist for three awards (the Lambda Literary, Triangle, and the Northern California Book Award), an American Booksellers BookSense Notable book, and the American Library Association selected it as a recommended book. The United Kingdom's Rainbow Network and Amazon both chose it as one of the ten best LGBT books of the year. When Alexander Street Press (now ProQuest) chose it for its academic collection of landmark LGBTQ+ literature, it listed its topics as criminals, death, runaways, and lesbianism (!)​
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My second novel, A PARTIAL HISTORY OF MY DELUSIONS, takes place in the former Yugoslavia in 1999, and an excerpt was published by Criminal Class Press. You can find my essays in various collections, such as FOR KEEPS: WOMEN TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT THEIR BODIES (Seal Press).
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My most recent film, The Queer Imagination, is a short documentary centered on artist and scholar Courtney Desiree Morris, with music by Haitian American composer Joel St. Julien. Drawing from photographs and video work across Jamaica, Nicaragua, Louisiana, and the Bay Area—including Morris’s exhibition at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, where Black queer women and sex workers were covered in 50 gallons of organic honey—the film moves between intimate studio footage, photographic montages, and large-scale performances.
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A big 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'm also a practitioner of meditation and devoted to my circles of iconoclastic friends and my four-footed furballs, Rocky and Lotus.
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