Deeply grateful to Samantha Haywood and Eva Oakes at Transatlantic for your support of this book. Beyond grateful that you' worked so hard on my behalf. Shout out to Jen Sookfong Lee for your keen eye and love for the project! Out from ECW Press in Spring 2027!
Deal Announcement!
Thank you to Jen Sookfong Lee at ECW Press, and Eva Oakes and Samantha Haywood at Transatlantic Agency for bringing this book into the world. Coming Spring 2027!
Vermont Studio Center
So grateful and delighted to be at the Vermont Studio Center as a writing fellow for the next two weeks. Massive thank you to the staff and in particular the literary program for the invitation, and to the other artists and writers who are so rad and inspiring. And shout out to the family for holding it down at home. Deep thanks.
Joya: Artist in Residence
This summer, I was incredibly lucky to attend Joya: Artist in Residency in Southern Spain as a visiting writer. My time there was rich and rewarding— I revised and created a new version of an old project. It was a gift to have the time and space to focus on rebuilding a narrative I had loved long ago. It was like meeting an old friend. I’m so grateful to Joya and the beautiful staff, volunteers and fellow artists who worked alongside me.
La Leña Residency
So grateful to La Leña Residency on Galiano Island for the amazing week of work. Thank you to Dayna for your tireless dedication to artists and for this beautiful place.
First Place: CRAFT First Chapters Contest
Thank you to CRAFT and judge Maisy Card for awarding VEGABOY first place in the First Chapters Contest. This excerpt will be published in December in CRAFT; thank you to that editorial team for your beautiful work.
See the announcement here: https://www.craftliterary.com/craft-first-chapters-contest-2022/
MacDowell Fellowship
Thank you to the amazing community at MacDowell for awarding me a fellowship for 2022. In residence I completed a manuscript that has been in the works for four years. Thank you, too, to the amazing artists there for your guidance and brilliance and friendship.
Craft Class
The Futurists:
Writing for the Network Society with Leah Bailly
Location: Thoren, University Club, Arizona State University
Type(s): Presentation, Seminar
Genre and Form(s): Experimental, Fiction, Hybrid, Interdisciplinary, Mixed Genre, Science Fiction
Tags: Narration, Media, Technology, The Future, Sound, Video, Image
About the Session
How does the global village tell stories? How does the digital age change our thinking and our writing? Thanks to the internet, we are now used to events being broadcast instantly and simultaneously. Plural voices report on every issue, and text is always accompanied by video, sound and image. As we delve further into the digital age, we are increasingly comfortable with hyperlinks and hybrid forms and multiple narrators infiltrating our narration. But do we forsake a certain intimacy in our literature? Are we growing accustomed to the isolation of constant connectivity? This seminar examines what we gain and lose by writing in a networked society, and how these new forms appear on the page and screen.
Beverly Hills Literary Escape
So grateful to Literary Affairs in Los Angeles for inviting me to moderate a panel at the Beverly Hills Literary Escape. Best quote, Joan Silber: “Raise your hand if you’ve never done something stupid for love.” None of us did. 💗
Paradise, NV
My story Paradise, NV is here in Cosmonaut's Avenue, a journal run and edited by women! These editors are rad, I love their taste. I feel honoured to be in their pages again.
Cosmonauts Ave
My story “Paradise, NV” has just made it to the short list at the Cosmonaut’s Avenue Fiction Prize. I love these guys/girls!!!!!!!
River Styx 96
Delighted to have my story "The Doors" in River Styx Guide to Money and Power. The editorial board here is is a force-- very happy to see this bit of Nevada in your pages.
MIXED MEDIA COLLAGES, JULIEN PACAUD
Julien Pacaud is a french illustrator, currently living in Le Mans, France. Before becoming an illustrator, he was, by turns : an astrophysicist, an international snooker player, a hypnotist and an Esperanto teacher.
I’ll be reading at the next Sumarr Reading Series event at Pop Hop books. Sunday June 21 at 3pm! Highland Park! With the insanely talented poets! Here’s the invite!
My flash fiction “Out of Order” appears in the latest Cosmonaut’s Avenue. It’s just a wee story about smoking speed and having a baby. Nothing strange here!
I love the editors at Cosmonaut Avenue and the fine people at Summer Literary Seminars. I could not be more stoked to be a finalist in their flash fiction contest. Soon to be published in their journal. Yes.
Lori Nix’s dioramas in “Post Human Utopia.”
Lately I have been concerned with utopia, and the ways in which we create dystopia out of our utopian spaces, and how every dystopia also contains glimpses of utopia, and how to write a fucking utopian novel with a baby strapped to one’s chest.
This is where my man Colin and I spent our baby moon– north of San Francisco, in a town called Point Arena, and all the parks around that zone. So gorgeous. All of these shots are Colin’s. xx
Just returned from the 2014 Breadloaf Writer’s Conference, where I was a work-study fellow in fiction. An amazing, trying, thrilling experience, loaded with lecture, workshop, seminars and gruelling shifts as a worker for the conference. The mountain is a deeply serious literary space, established by Robert Frost and for 78 years, populated by the very best in faculty and guests. My compadres in the fellowship were hard-working, selfless and also indescribable literary rockstars. I felt like I was in the company of America’s upcoming greats. So much to be thankful for, in particular, the opportunity to study in such fine company.
Here is a reading that we did for a packed crowd on Sunday night. Listen to the entire thing here, track 8, the Work-Study Reading. I’m reading next-to-last, at around 35 mins.
Just returned from a three-week residency at Yaddo. Things I learned there: I need quiet. I need a cool space (as in not warm) so I can finish things. I am healthiest when I write for long hours and then run and then socialize with geniuses because feeling humbled by their company really gets me going. I need a space of my own, particularly when it is Sylvia Plath’s old studio, with a desk so old and worn and smooth under my wrists it feels like medicine. Residencies work for me. I hope I may go back one day.
Next up: a lovely long month in Los Angeles to read what I wrote and self-censure like crazy.
After that: the Breadloaf Conference in Vermont, where I will be a work-study fellow. This is officially the summer of writing in the East. So grateful for these opportunities.