fiction and creative nonfiction

I write weirdo fiction and overly honest memoir and personal essays.  Writing appears in The Rumpus, Guernica, Joyland, Gargoyle, PANK, and elsewhere. It has also been noted by Best Sex Writing, The Best American Essays, Recognize: Bi Men’s Voices, and The Golden State, an Anthology of the Best Californian Writing. 

developmental book editing

I edit for publishing houses and independent writers of fiction and creative nonfiction. I specialize in developmental and substantive editing. Clients include Rare Bird Lit, Jaded Ibis Press, and Stillhouse Press, and individual clients have gone on to publish with FSG, The MIT Press, Cornell University Press, Rare Bird Lit, and elsewhere. 

Rates are between $75-$125 an hour, with a limited number of $50-an-hour slots available for clients who can demonstrate financial need. Project estimates are also available. For testimonials, please visit the bottom of this page.

Private Workshops

Though my teaching is currently on hiatus, I have taught classes in a wide variety of creative and professional writing and editing both online and throughout the Los Angeles Area. I teach at the UCLA-Extension Writer’s Program, Antioch University Los Angeles, and Writing Workshops Los Angeles. I still appear in university or professional setting to discuss topics that include bisexuality, developmental editing, narrative and storytelling in teaching and activism, and more.