: About Me

I have written for theater, specifically Impressions of the Border, as writer-in-residence for Mascara Magica, one of the first multicultural theater ensembles in the US. These works have been showcased in both professional theaters and community arts venues, as well as being filmed and broadcast on the local public television affiliate.

I have also served as lyricist/vocalist in four original-music bands in the Southern California area: The Frame, Tyburn Jig, Radio Dark Night and Harper's Ferry.

My work has been published in Slipstream,The Wormwood Review, Xib, Puck, The Quarterly and others. I am currently developing projects in the graphic fiction genres.

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Nowhere to go

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And She Said I heard her from a few feet away down the Geography aisle, coughing: a dry, severed sort of sound, like a primeval call from some long-dead summit. I put my books back and crossed over to her, a woman, late 30's maybe, covering her mouth with both hands, as if trying to repulse an onslaught of curses pushing their way out. She had been pretty once, but now, in her dirty remnants and layers, she was hard to decode. "Lady," I asked, "Are you alright?" She looked up at me and then turned away, nodding her head, and I felt stupid for asking. The library was her hospice, and once i...

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