Short Bio
Taking a break from teaching film and creative writing in East Los Angeles to write full time. I have a BA in theatre/film from UCSC and an MFA in film production from UCLA.
Each time I get a poem published that journal becomes my new favorite journal. So now I am in love with Kelp Journal. I love that they published two of my poems but l also love this journal and all that they do to try to help the health of our oceans. I'm also super appreciative of the photos and art that are sometimes paired with my poetry. I had a poem published by Red Flag Poetry Express, which sends out postcards of poems paired with artwork, and the watercolor paired with my little poem was so perfect and beautiful. A poem was recently published in Closed Eye Open, You should check out the journal. The photography featured in this journal is really cool in addition to all the great stories and poems. Other poems exist out in the world in Tiny Seed Literary Journal, Nixes Mate Review, Neologism Poetry Journal, Red Flag Poetry Express, antinarrative journal, Right Hand Pointing/One Sentence Poems, Ekphrastic Review, Contemporary Haibun among others. I recently finished writing the novella, People Who Love You.
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I don't update this site often. I have a few more poems published and some forthcoming. I am still writing poetry but I took time off from working on poems to finish my novella. Yay! It's finished. I am starting another called "The Lost Films." This book was inspired in part by an unexpected podcast by Caveh Zahedi and his (imperfect) but flattering memory of me in film school. You can hear it here. 365 Stories I Want To Tell You Before We Both Die - The Perfectionist Could be any war... This is an erasure poem from a newspaper article in the Guardian. WAR day 1 condition of anonymity migratory birds, bats and insects a chilling warning airfields far convoys near kindergarten shoe factory forest dead and wounded kidnapped static and vulnerable physically eliminate “It’s frightening, but what can you do? |