For The Guardian, I got to witness researchers attempt to spawn the endangered white abalone, giant marine snails that live off the California coast.It was a surprisingly uplifting and hopeful experience, despite all the challenges these creatures face (including the…
I had the pleasure of reading with Katherine Elberfeld and Allyson S. Barkley at the Playa Flamingo Live Author Reading. If you’re interested in Atmosphere Press’s writing residency in Costa Rica, which I attended last year, you can watch here:
And for the first publication of 2026, I have a short-short up over at Every Day Fiction called Kim. Read here!
This was a terrible year for the world. Personally, however, it wasn’t bad. Here are some things that happened to me this year, in no particular order: 4. Our friend Paul Peterson passed away. I’m going to miss him so…
I wrote a play! Well, co-wrote it with Marcia Simmons. It’s a Christmas comedy about Charles Dickens and his wife Kate. Here’s a description from the Petaluma Argus-Courier. “Set on Christmas Eve 1841, the story drops us in on the…
What a delightful surprise to learn my short story, The Bear, was a Special Mention in the 2026 Pushcart Prize anthology!
I wrote about a new play, Last West, about the photographer Dorothea Lange. Read here!
I read at Litcrawl San Francisco, hosted by Forge Literary Magazine! I read with five other authors on the theme, Forged in the Heart: Tales of Love and Heartache
This year marks the hundredth anniversary of one of my favorite comic novels, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos. For Alta, I wrote about Loos’s journey from child actor in San Diego to one of the first and funniest female…