Last February, I was lucky enough to spend two weeks at Hedgebrook, an all-women writing residency in Washington. It was a truly wonderful experience. I got so much work done while staying in this magical cottage. They even fed me!…
Last year I had the opportunity to retrace John Steinbeck’s journey on his boat Western Flyer to Baja, Mexico. He and his best friend, marine biologist Ed Ricketts, collected specimens in one of the most biologically diverse oceans in the…
I’m thrilled to share my first piece for The New Yorker. It’s about the Beat poet Lenore Kandel, whose erotic poetry collection, The Love Book, led to San Francisco’s last and longest obscenity trial. Read more about this story of…
My article on Anais Nin for Alta Magazine is now online! For decades, Anaïs Nin was married to two different men on separate coasts of the United States. Neither man knew about the other. She called this complicated situation her…
I have a short story up at Marrow Magazine titled JACK AND THE CANDLESTICK. It’s about a ghost stuck in a candlestick, a medieval executioner, and a peasant girl. There’s also an interview with me about the story that you…
Very happy to have an essay in the most recent issue Prairie Schooner. It’s about my experiences dealing with the California wild fires, including evacuations and the ongoing weirdness and tragedy of climate change.
PAPERBACKS of Right Back Where We Started From! Here I am opening the box of paperbacks of my novel, Right Back Where We Started From! They're coming out August 16! I'm almost more excited about the paperback than I was…
I’m honored and excited to share that I was awarded a Courage to Write grant from The de Groot Foundation! I’m so grateful for their support as I finish up my second novel.
My article Flight of the Condors, originally published in Alta Magazine, was a finalist in the 64th Southern California Journalism Awards. Read the full list of winners here.
For Alta Magazine, I wrote an ode to my favorite childhood bookstore, Tin Can Mailman in Arcata, California. I also wrote a round-up of North Coast Bookstores.
For Mental Floss, I wrote 10 Juicy Facts About Mary Astor’s Purple Diary, Old Hollywood’s Most Infamous Sex Scandal. This scandal was a huge inspiration for my novel, Right Back Where We Started From. Poor Mary Astor was done dirty.
I was interviewed by the fabulous Frances Badalamenti in The Rumpus! We talked about greed, ambition, and the “unlikable” female characters in my novel Right Back Where We Started From. Read the interview here.