I have been a writer since two decades ago, when a strange man in an elevator asked me if I would be interested in contributing album reviews to the Seattle Weekly. Twenty minutes later, I had a stack of CDs and an anxiety attack. Since then, I have created multimedia advertising, brand manifestos and brand books, short stories, arts/culture features for newspapers and magazines, interviews, songs, blogs, commercial jingles, a monthly style column, and a novel-in-progress that reads something like a combo of Frances Ha, High Fidelity and On the Road. My work has been published in books, magazines, literary journals, and anthologies, including Tin House, The Stranger, The Sun, Swink, Jane Magazine, Open City, Seattle Weekly, Portland Monthly, The Portland Tribune, The Organ Review of Arts, and Revel in Portland. I also started Blumesday (a literary holiday celebrating Judy Blume) which was featured on NPR.

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