Biography...

I’m a fiction writer, lecturer in creative writing, and writing coach living in San Francisco. I hold a BA in English Literature and an MFA in Fiction from San Francisco State University where I’ve been teaching since 1998.

Courses I’ve taught at State include: Characterization, Short Story Writing, Uses of Personal Experience, Directed Writing (a one-on-one tutorial), Writers on Writing, Craft of Fiction, Style in Fiction, The Short-Short Story, Work In Progress, Teaching Creative Writing, Transfer Literary Magazine, and Fourteen Hills. I'm an Artist Mentor for Performing Arts Workshop, the non-profit that once hired me as the Writer in Residence at LYRIC.

I’ve read at several diverse venues across the country, including: The San Francisco Public Library, The Poetry Center, LitQuake's LitCrawl, Cinders Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, Adobe Books, Million Fishes Gallery, The Shanti Project, Glide Church, and The Guild Complex in Chicago. Along with Maxine Hong Kingston and others, I was interviewed for a radio program titled Voices at the End of the Rainbow.

My short fiction has appeared in a variety of literary journals, both bound and online, including: The Atlantic Monthy’s Unbound, Lodestar Quarterly, and 580-Split.

The novel manuscript I wrote in graduate school, ROADMAP, won the Clark/Gross Novel-in-Progress Contest and was granted a Stonewall Alumni Association Award for excellence. 

My second manuscript, LETTERS TO THE DEAD, which I recently completed, was awarded a Cultural Equities Grant from The Arts Commission of San Francisco. 

To hear me read my own work, visit Dublit.

To find out more about me, my upcoming classes or readings, visit my blog.