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Hello! Thanks for coming by. In the past, I've worked as a roofer, choreographer, journalist, stripper, instructional designer, kitten fosterer, user story developer, editor, and storyteller for the elderly.
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I'm a big sky watcher and love walking at twilight, reading about cloud types, and spotting constellations: Corona Borealis and the Pleiades are two of my favorites.
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CRASHING AMERICA (Alyson) was my first novel. It was rejected by over 70 agents and publishers before finding a home with a small gay press. It is now taught in universities all over the world, and it 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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As an educational instructional designer, I co-wrote and developed the first Webby Award-winning math and science curriculum.
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I'm a practitioner of meditation and devoted to my circles of iconoclastic friends and my four-footed fur balls, Lotus and Rocky.
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