Sebastopol LitQuake
I had a great time at Sebastopol Litquake this past weekend. I got to read with some other excellent novelists and I debuted a chapter from my new novel, The Bath School Disaster.
The Guardian: Detained Chinese Immigrants Inspired A Ballet
For The Guardian, I wrote about a new ballet based on the painful history of immigrant detainees on Angel Island near San Francisco. Excerpt: One sunny March day on Angel Island, a hilly landmass in the middle of the San…
Residency In Costa Rica
I’m honored to have won Atmosphere Press’s Playa Flamingo Writing Residency. I’m going to get to spend five days writing in Costa Rica! I’ve never been there before and am excited.
Over on Write or Die Magazine I chatted with Frances Badalamenti about her new novel Many Seasons. We discussed her approach to writing autofiction, women’s unpaid labor, healing from anxiety and trauma, and how her family feels about her fictionalizing…
Alta Article: Condors Lords of the Fly
For Alta Magazine, I wrote an ode to the California condor: I don’t know when I started looking for California condors in the sky. It must have been when I was a child growing up in Humboldt County, before I…
LAPC Book Critic Finalist
I’m honored to be an LAPC book critic finalist for their national A&E journalism awards alongside all these fantastic writers at Alta! It’s for my essay “Falling in and out of Love with Sierra On-Line.” More here.
The Bear in Chicago Quarterly Review
My short story, The Bear, was included in The 30th Anniversary Issue of Chicago Quarterly Review. What a great thing to have my story about a nervous Californian worrying about bears in the North Carolina woods published along side so…
Article: DDP in The Guardian
For The Guardian, I wrote about the DNA Doe Project, a volunteer organization using investigative genetic genealogy to track down the identities of Jane and John Does. I was amazed by the number of cases they’ve solved–some of these people…
Article: Better Diversity Through Cloning
For Alta Journal, I wrote about San Diego’s Frozen Zoo, which is cloning endangered animals to revitalize their genetic diversity. I look into the cases of the last wild horses and the black-footed ferret and ask, can cloning save them?…
Poetry Foundation: Alice Duer Miller
While reading a newspaper from 1914 (as you do) I came upon this suffragist satirical poem by Alice Duer Miller. It was one of many she wrote under her column in the New York Tribune titled Are Women People? Miller…