I am not one of those people who has always wanted to be a writer. I got the itch relatively late in the game… and unfortunately, it was an ill-timed realization, as it prompted me to drop out of my masters’ program in International Affairs, move to Chicago, and take up dildo-slinging as a career while I figured out how to write. Luckily, it turns out that slinging dildos is pretty much the best day job a writer can have.
In 2008 I graduated from Clarion West — an experience I highly recommend and which changed my life in countless ways– and in 2009, I co-founded Brain Harvest: An Almanac of Bad Ass Speculative Fiction. I have had a handful of short stories published, and I’ve written some travel articles too.
My non-writing interests include traveling, learning languages I will never use, bicycling, urban farming, despairing at the dismal state of non-dairy cheese technology, and being surprised. Dislikes include the sound of children whispering. Once, I bicycled from Connecticut from San Francisco. I’ve also had malaria twice.