Writing
My writing exists between genres and disciplines, drawing on poetry, memoir, fiction, philosophy, history, and other practices to cultivate critical interiority. I often work with forms of personal narrative to explore self-awareness as a means of shaping and being shaped by the perceived world.
My books include the novella Sonny and several collections of poetry and short prose. I’ve recently completed the manuscript of a memoir, Pool of Stars, and am working on a novel, The Confusion of Figure and Ground.
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Journals
The Confusion of Figure and Ground (excerpt from novel in progress), Your Impossible Voice, 2025
“About the About,” Your Impossible Voice, 2023
“An Absence at the Center,” High Dawn Collected, 2021
“All the Daemons in Paradise,” Vol. 1 Brooklyn, 2021
"The Rose-Lung Damask," "Composition for Knitting." La Vague, 2021
“A Failed Saint Turns to Autobiography,” Journal of Narrative Theory 51.3, 2021
“Honey Mine,” Tripwire, 2021
“Oracular Transmissions,” Tripwire, 2021
“Vibratory Milieu,” The Colorado Review, 2021
“In the Field,” Elderly, 2020
“Vigilance Is No Orchard: An Anamorphosis,” The Denver Quarterly, 2020
“Some New Opinions on Matter,” Galatea Resurrects, 2017
“Matlike,” “Spiral Discourse,” The Encyclopedia Project, 2017
“Mycelial,” “Red Dust Tangle,” GeoHumanities, 2017
“Codes of Incompletion” (audio), Textsound, 2014
“Codes of Incompletion,” Eleven Eleven, 2014
“Matlike,” Poetry Center Chapbook Exchange, 2014
“Loookread,” The Volta, 2013
“Laboradory,” Poetic Labor Project, 2013
“Matlike” (excerpt), VOLT, 2012
“The Man Without Stumps” (excerpt), Viz. Inter-Arts, 2012
“Matlike” (excerpt), TheBrooklyn Rail, 2011
“A Short Trip Inside and Outside the Box,” Extended Landscape, 2011
“The Man Without Stumps” (excerpt), New American Writing, 2007
Anthologies
“His Wrist,” Way Bay Poetry Collection, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2018
“Memory Serving,” Bay Poetics, Faux Press, 2006
“The Boy Who Could Fly,” An Apparent Event, Second Story Books, 2006
“All New Yorker Stories,” Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative, Coach House Books, 2005
“Sonny” (excerpt), Technologies of Measure: A Celebration of Bay Area Women Writers, Small Press Traffic, Kelsey St. Press, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2002
“Hole,” “My Recent Disgust With the Act of Thinking” (excerpt), “Thin Straw That I Suck Life Through” (excerpt), An Anthology of New (American) Poets, Talisman House, 1998
Residencies
Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, writing residency, Alberta, Canada, 2019, 2020, 2024
Small Time Writers Residency, This Will Take Time, Point Arena CA, 2019
Readings & Presentations
Selected List
“SupercalEKPHRASTICaladocious: Enlarging Creative Practice,” (panel presentation), New Orleans Poetry Festival, April 2026
“Ways Past Ekphrasis,” (panel presentation), Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture, January 2026
The Confusion of Figure and Ground (excerpt of work in progress), San Francisco Public Library, August 2025
The Confusion of Figure and Ground (excerpt of work in progress), Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Alberta, Canada, August 2024
What Possessed Me (excerpt of work in progress), Small Press Traffic, San Francisco CA, November 2020
What Possessed Me (excerpt of work in progress), Banff Winter Writers Retreat, Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada, March 2020
What Possessed Me (excerpt of work in progress), ArtemisSF, San Francisco CA, January 2020
What Possessed Me (excerpt of work in progress), Beat Museum, San Francisco CA, June 2019
“Spiral Discourse,” The Prelinger Library, San Francisco CA, February 2019
What Possessed Me (excerpt of work in progress), Banff Winter Writers Retreat, Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada, January 2019
“Sanctuary at Shattuck” (excerpt), Avenue, San Francisco CA, August 2018
“His Wrist,” Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, February 2018
“Sanctuary at Shattuck” (excerpt), Booksmith, San Francisco CA, May 2017
“Mycelial,” “Red Dust Tangle,” Association of American Geographers, San Francisco CA, March 2016
“Avatar,” Endless Summer, Small Press Traffic, Berkeley CA, June 2015
“Red Dust Tangle” (excerpt), Unnamable Books, Brooklyn NY, January 2014
“Red Dust Tangle” (excerpt), [2nd floor projects], San Francisco CA, November 2013
“Red Dust Tangle” (excerpt), Featherboard, Oakland CA, September 2013
Then Go On (excerpt), Bird & Beckett Books and Records, San Francisco CA, January 2013
“Un/Conventional Chorus,” Poets Theater, Small Press Traffic, San Francisco CA,
January 2013Then Go On (excerpt), An Evening of New Poetry from Litmus Press, Brooklyn NY, June 2012
A Partial Handbook for Navigators (excerpt), Bard College Roving Reading Series,
Annandale-on-Hudson NY, November 2009A Partial Handbook for Navigators (excerpt), Segue Series, Bowery Poetry Club,
New York NY, November 2009A Partial Handbook for Navigators (excerpt), Moe’s Books, Berkeley CA, August 2008
Sonny (excerpt), University of Colorado, Boulder CO, April 2006
“The Boy Who Could Fly” (excerpt), The Bowery Poetry Club, New York NY, April 2006
Sonny (excerpt), Brown University, Providence RI, April 2006
“The Boy Who Could Fly” (excerpt), Canessa Gallery, San Francisco CA, March 2006
Editing & Publishing Projects
Articiple, online forum featuring interviews with visual artists
Founding editor and publisher, Oakland CA, 2014-2017Second Story Books, independent literary press featuring cross-genre narrative writing
1998-2006Narrativity, online forum for critical writing on experimental narrative, culminated in print anthology, Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative
Founding co-editor, San Francisco CA, 2000-2004Proliferation, annual journal of innovative contemporary writing
Founding co-editor and publisher, Boulder CO/San Francisco CA, 1994-1999
Education
Naropa University, Master of Fine Arts in Writing and Poetics
Boston University, Master of Arts in Creative Writing
Oberlin College, Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Creative Writing