I'm a fiction writer, lecturer in creative writing, and writing coach living in San Francisco. I hold a BA in English Literature and an MFA in Fiction from San Francisco State University where I've been teaching since 1998.

Courses I've taught at State include: Characterization, Short Story Writing, Uses of Personal Experience, Directed Writing (a one-on-one tutorial), Writers on Writing, Craft of Fiction, Style in Fiction, The Short-Short Story, Work In Progress, Teaching Creative Writing, Transfer Literary Magazine, and Fourteen Hills. I'm an Artist Mentor forPerforming Arts Workshop, the non-profit that once hired me as the Writer in Residence at LYRIC.

I've read at several diverse venues across the country, including: The Poetry Center, LitQuake's LitCrawl at Adobe Books, The Shanti Project, Glide Church, and The Guild Complex in Chicago. Along with Maxine Hong Kingston and others, I was interviewed for a radio program titled Voices at the End of the Rainbow.

My short fiction has appeared in a variety of literary journals, both bound and online, including: The Atlantic Monthy's Unbound, Lodestar Quarterly, and 580-Split.

My now-completed novel, ROADMAP, won the Clark/Gross Novel-in-Progress Contest and was granted a Stonewall Alumni Association Award for excellence. ROADMAP is represented by Johnson and Axelrod Literary Agency.

The recent recipient of a Cultural Equities Grant from the city of San Francisco, I'm writing a second novel now, called LETTERS TO THE DEAD. To find out more about me or my private workshops in San Francisco visit my blog.