prose

forthcoming: work in Necessary Fiction, Ghost City Review, Hobart, minor literature[s], Split Lip, Archetype, Eunoia Review

i wrote an essay about my love for Sea Ranch, California in Where Meadows (2024)

a fictional story about honesty in Hobart (2024)

Rosa Bonheur: zoological Thomas Kinkade or bovine Michelangelo? all revealed in The Oxonian Review (2022)

writing about the Rothko Chapel in Bayou Magazine (2022)

more Rothko Chapel in Wilderness House Literary Review (2022)

ecological genius and architectural dictatorship in Arcosanti, Arizona for Archetype (2022)

Bernard Maybeck and the Palace of Fine Arts in Synchronized Chaos (2022)

poetry

forthcoming: work in Evergreen Review, Sport Literate, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal

three translations of Provencal troubadour poet Arnaut Daniel in La Piccioletta Barca (2024)

two poems about Sea Ranch and San Francisco in California Quarterly (2024)

a few poems in Ginosko (2024)

poems in MONDAY (2021)

misc

a short movie about the long-term benefits of psychopathy in the corporate world, Official Selection of the Sacramento International Film Festival and nominated for the IMDB qualifying competition of the LA Independent Women Film Awards (2024)

quoted, covered, interviewed in Verso, the San Francisco Chronicle, Cinema Retro, bivoulab, Study Hall

reportage

forthcoming: always

many true stories on everything from geopolitics to Harry Belafonte as the research director of Ethnic Media Services (2022-2024); some include ADA lawsuit fraud in San Francisco, diaspora Turks after the 2023 earthquake, Dolly Parton bestowing books upon California’s children, migratory grief for the eternal refugee, Bay Area housing gaps, adding 1 million years of life expectancy to LA County by greening it, fighting extreme heat in California’s hottest county, and affordable housing milestones in California. like a newswire, these stories are run throughout a network of 2,000+ community print, TV, radio, and digital outlets across the U.S. and largely in California, from El Tecolote to Nichi Bei News (2022 – )

two plays reviewed for the San Francisco Chronicle (2023)

ripping up the pavement and greening California’s schoolyards for SFGATE / Bay City News (2023)

Maya Deren, ’70s eco-horror, early CGI, how The Monkees birthed New Hollywood, and Turksploitation cinema for Bright Lights Film Journal (2022 – 2024)

city reporter extraordinaire for the Piedmont Post and Bay Area local papers (2022 – 2023)

arts reporter extraordinaire for The Daily Californian (2022)

writing about movies, music, and books for PopMatters (2022)

writing on art for Whitewall including San Francisco exhibition reviews; a Friday art world party column; international exhibitions like the Venice Biennale, the Recontres d’Arles, Paris Mens’ Fashion Week, and Milan Mens’ Fashion Week; the burgeoning NFT and VR beat; and interviews with artists like Tourmaline, Milagros, Brett Cook, Koen Vanmechelen, Nicolas Bourriaud, Ahmet Güneştekin, and Ignasi Monreal (2022)

two 1970 student protest films for Senses of Cinema (2022)

reviewing Bill McKibben and Barry Lopez for Stone Pier Press (2022)