teacher, writer, multi-media artist, performer and consultant

I am a teacher, writer, visual artist, performing artist and consultant with over 30 years of experience in my fields. I hold an M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction with a critical emphasis on women and AIDS in literature from Goddard College, and a B.A. from Evergreen State College.

I’m the author of This is What It Sounds Like, a memoir about my childhood and mother’s death in 1993 from complications of HIV/AIDS. I've been {writing}, performing, and teaching for 30 years. Most recently, my piece, "To Make a Whore of," was included in the anthology: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on the AIDS Pandemic, edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore and nominated for a 2022 Lambda Award. You can also find my work in The Santa Fe New Mexican, The Portland Review, The Santa Fe Literary Review, Entropy Magazine, Connotation Press, Literary Orphans, the anthology Fireside Popsicles, and Make/Shift Magazine.

I founded {Intersectional Consulting}, where I work with institutions, organizations, and businesses to apply and embody an intersectional lens and consciousness to collaboratively expand and preserve justice, community relationships, access, and equity, through training, curriculum, and creative endeavors.

I’m a visual artist and make educational tools. My multi-media art is both traditional visual and sculptural art as well as a range of usable and wearable pieces such as jewelry and lamps. I’m also thrilled to have my art included in Sins Invalid's Disability Justice from A to Z Coloring Book.

I co-created and performed in The Transfused, a full-length Rock Opera written up in Time, Bust, and Bitch magazines, and performed spoken word at Ladyfest Olympia and Los Angeles, Homo-A-Gogo, and The Sex Worker’s Art Show national tour with Michelle Tea and Penny Arcade. In “The Opening of the Mouth,” I performed with Ariana Reines and Jackie Wang. I’ve taught all over the country, including Portland’s The Rock and Roll Camp for Girls and Tucson’s Casa Libre.

I have an MFA from Goddard College in Creative Nonfiction with a critical emphasis on women and AIDS in literature, and a BA from the Evergreen State College. I’m a Faculty member in Santa Fe Community College in English, Creative Writing, and Humanities. I was deeply honored to be named Phi Theta Kappa’s “Teacher of the Year” for 2013-2014. I was a contributing faculty member in Creative Writing, Liberal Arts, and Humanities at The Institute of American Indian Arts for ten years.