Resume

Novels

  • Beyond Everyday Secrets (Createspace, 2014).
  • Born from Ashes (Createspace, 2012). Translated into French.

Short  Stories

  • “The Photograph.” Running Wild & RIZE. Running Wild Press – Annual Short Story Anthology, Volume 9 (forthcoming: May, 2026).
  • “Walk a Mile.” Feign Literary Fiction Magazine. September. 2025.
  • “Castle in the Woods.” The Acentos Review. October. 2024.
  • “The Separatist.” Oyster River Pages. August. 2024.
  • “Real Men Don’t Cry.” The University of Chicago/The Taborian. August. 2024.
  • “When We Were Cowboys.” Scarlet: A Literary Journal (Jaded Ibis Press). July. 2024.
  • “In My Time of Dying.” Litro Magazine. June. 2023.
  • “Sign the Papers.” The Plentitudes Journal, Vision Issue. Spring. 2022.
  • “All-Time Low All-Stars.” The Pitkin Review, Spring. 2020.
  • “Under a San Francisco Sky.” Taj Mahal Review, 2006. Reprinted in SoMa Literary Review, 2007 (DEFUNCT).
  • “One Chapter at a Time.” SoMa Literary Review, 2007.
  • “So, You Think You Can Dance?” SoMa Literary Review, 2007.
  • “Cradles Pond.” Readerjack, 2006.
  • “The Blank Page.” The Writing Life, 2001.
  • “Unfiltered” Millennium Shift Magazine, 2000.

Dramatic Works – 2016 – Present

  • Outstanding Screenplays Feature Competition. Feature Screenplay, Quarterfinalist, 2024.
  • ScreenCraft Sci-Fi & Fantasy Screenplay Competition. Feature Screenplay, Quarterfinalist, 2024.
  • Filmmatic Horror Screenplay Awards (Season 8). Feature Screenplay, Quarterfinalist, 2024.
  • ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Writing Competition. Quarterfinalist, 2024.
  • ScreenCraft Sci-Fi & Fantasy Screenplay Competition. Feature Screenplay, Quarterfinalist, 2023.
  • Outstanding Screenplays Feature Competition. Feature Screenplay, Quarterfinalist, 2023.
  • The Script Lab Screenplay Contest. Feature Screenplay, Quarterfinalist, 2023.
  • Emerging Screenwriters Suspense Screenplay Competition. Feature Screenplay, Quarterfinalist, 2022.
  • Seattle Film Summit/Bigfoot Script Challenge. Feature Screenplay, Finalist, 2021.
  • Goddard College Take Ten! Play Festival. 10-Minute Play, Debut, 2020.
  • Filmmatic TV Awards (Season 5). Television (One-Hour Pilot) Semifinalist, 2020.
  • ScreenCraft Stage Play Contest, Full-Length Play, Quarterfinalist, 2019.
  • 32 Stage 4th Annual TV Writing Contest. Television (One-Hour Pilot), Quarterfinalist, 2019.
  • Shore Scripts Contest. Feature Screenplay, Quarterfinalist, 2019.
  • Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices Screenplay Competition. Feature Screenplay, Quarterfinalist, 2018.
  • Seattle Film Summit/Bigfoot Script Challenge. Feature Screenplay, Finalist, 2018.
  • ScreenCraft Action & Adventure Screenplay Competition. Feature Screenplay, Quarterfinalist, 2016.
  • Headline International Film Festival. Feature Screenplay, Award Winner, 2016.

Visual Arts – 2025 – Present

  • IHRAM Press. Voices of the Unhoused Literary Magazine. (Artwork: Cabin in the Woods). December. 2025.
  • Entre Magazine. Vol. 3. (Artwork: Social Media Friends and When You No Longer Know Me). November. 2025.
  • Rawhead Journal:Special Issue #1/Fall (Artwork: One Step Beyond; Woman in the Woods; Green Woman Mural on a Building). 2025.
  • Gallerium Art Exhibitions‘ 3rd Annual People 2025 Exhibition (Artwork: Familiar Strangers/exhibition and publication). 2025.
  • Art Week (Artwork: Familiar Strangers). March. 2025.
  • Visual Art Journal (Artwork: Familiar Strangers and Pink Ladies). Issue #20. March, 2025.
  • The Vagabond’s Verse Literary Magazine. #1 Issue. (Artwork: Familiar Strangers and One Step Beyond.) August. 2025.
  • Exhibizone‘s 2nd Annual International Future 2025 Exhibition (Artwork: Sea of Doubt/exhibition and publication). 2025.
  • Lowlife Lit Press. (forthcoming/Artwork: Blood for Oil; Social Media Friends; Tombstones in a Flood; Woman in the Woods; Green Woman Mural on a Building). 2025.
  • Gallerium and The Book of Arts’ 3rd Annual Shapes and Colors 2025 Exhibition (Artwork: Pink Ladies/exhibition and publication). 2025.
  • Art Week (Artwork: Sea of Doubt). June. 2025.
  • Art Week (Artwork: Pink Ladies). July. 2025.
  • Pictura Journal (Artwork: Green Woman Mural on a Building). August. 2025.
  • The Ana (art and literary magazine): Issue #17 (Artwork: Familiar Strangers; When You No Longer Know Me; Social Media Friends; Woman in the Woods). September. 2025.

Artist Residencies & Awards – 2019 – Present

  • Artist Trust. Fellowship Award. Literary Artist, 2025.
  • 4Culture. Cultural Recovery Fund Grant Award, 2024.
  • Takt Artist Residency. Leipzig, Germany. 2023.
  • Centrum Emerging Writers Residency (Full Scholarship). Port Townsend, WA. 2023.
  • Vashon Artist Residency. Vashon Island, WA. 2022.
  • Sitka Center for Art and Ecology Residency. Otis, OR. 2021
  • University of Washington Whiteley Center Residency (Collaborative). Friday Harbor, WA 2021.
  • Can Serrat International Artist Residency. El Bruc/Barcelona, Spain. 2019.
  • PEN Writer’s Award. Presented by Goddard College. Plainfield, VT. 2019.

Organizational Membership – 2019 – Present

  • PEN America
  • Pacific Northwest Writers Association
  • Association of Writers & Writing Programs
  • NALIP Organization
  • Centrum Artist Network

Awards Judging & Editing

  • Reading Member for general fiction submissions, 2024 EcoLit Challenge,  First Chapters Contest (Guest Judge: Kimberly King Parsons), and 2024 Short Fiction Prize (Guest Judge: Deesha Philyaw). CRAFT Literary Magazine, 2024.
  • Prizes’ Selection Committee Juror for Fiction (Guest Judge: Joss Lake). The Plentitudes Journal, Spring 2024.
  • Reading Board Member. The Plentitudes Journal, Fall 2022 – 2023.
  • Sitka Center for Art and Ecology Artist Residence Jury Panelist. Writers & Poets, 2022.
  • Genre Editor/Drama. The Pitkin Review, Fall Edition. 2020.

Education

  • Goddard College, VT – MFA: Creative Writing, 2021.
  • University of Washington, Seattle, WA – Certificate: Writing, 2018.
  • San Jose State University, CA – Post-Baccalaurette Single-Subject Teaching Credential Program: English (3/4 completed), 2007.
  • San Jose State University, CA – B.A.: English, 2001.
  • San Jose State University, CA – Certificate in Professional and Technical Communications, 2001.

Teaching

  • Blue Stoop Organization. Philadelphia, PA. Writing Instructor. 2025 (Remote). Workshop available at Youtube.com.
  • City of Santa Cruz, Department of Parks and Recreation. Santa Cruz, CA. Writing Instructor. 2020 (Remote).
  • 2-Day Intensive Storytelling Workshop. Seattle, WA. Writing Instructor. 2020 (In-person).
  • Cabrillo Middle School. Santa Clara, CA. Student Teacher:English (Practicum). 2007.