Fiction, Poetry, Interviews & More
Many thanks to The Racket for publishing this short piece in Nov. 2024 on the mechanics of grief.
My story “A Question of Karma” was featured in the Berkeley Fiction Review podcast, October 2024.
Berkeley Fiction Review published this story in issue 43, spring 2023. Love this image by Tracy Sun.
Oranges / William Luz / 2021
“Where I Come From is Dirt”
Delighted to see this prose poem published in The Racket in Nov. 2021.
“Tap Show”
I recorded myself reading this short piece for The Racket.
“All the Times I Tried To”
Press Pause published my essay, interestingly enough, on the 20th anniversary of my diagnosis with type 1 diabetes.
Noyo River Review reading at the Gallery Bookshop in Mendocino, 2019.
“The Bridge”
My short story, “The Bridge,” was published by the Noyo River Review in 2019 after being selected as the winner of the novel writing contest for the 2018 Mendocino Coast Writers Conference by novelist Shanthi Sekaran.
“Cheating Fate”
The Literary Nest published this short story.
Interview with Alice LaPlante
I interviewed fiction writer Alice LaPlante for issue 16.2 of Fourteen Hills.
“Overcoming Shyness”
At age 13, I submitted a chapter entitled “Overcoming Shyness” to Girls Know Best 2, published by Beyond Words Publishing.
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“lipstick”
Another excerpt of Foreigner was published in Sparkle + Blink, a publication of San Francisco’s Quiet Lightning. I performed this piece on Angel Island in September 2019.
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art by C. R. Stapor
“the dumbest parasite in the world,” “granada”
I performed these pieces at Quiet Lightning in 2010.
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art by Steven Seidenberg
from “la madrugada”
I read an excerpt of Foreigner at Quiet Lightning.
“The "First”
My essay “The First” was published in The Moment by Smith Mag.
The Dodge Mag published this story set in Chile in April 2024.
This short story was published by Manifest-Station in October 2023.
MAYDAY Magazine published an excerpt of my novel-in-progress in July 2022. Image by Elizabeth Johnson.
“Tupperware Can Do Almost Anything”
Roi Fainéant Literary Press published my short story in June 2022 in a special heat-themed issue edited by Melissa Flores Anderson and Francois Bereaud.
My essay “Scouting” has been included in this anthology by East Over Press.
“Scouting”
Cutleaf Journal published “Scouting,” an essay about the loss of my first son, in Dec. 2021.
Plume: A Writer’s Companion
“Soloist”
The lovely writer entrepreneurs behind Plume: A Writer’s Companion invited me to contribute a short story to their podcast season finale. You can hear me reading my short story “Soloist” about 40 minutes in.
“The Saralee Recordings” and “Red Tide”
The Oracle Fine Arts Review from the University of South Alabama has published two different pieces: “Red Tide,” a collection of five 100-word stories that they later nominated for a 2015 Pushcart Prize in fiction, and “The Saralee Recordings,” and essay about my pianist grandmother.
“Mother’s Day”
My short story, “Mother’s Day,” was published in They Do Exist! by Scribes Valley Publishing.
Cover image by Chelsea Ryoko Wong
“Thanksgiving in Space”
This flash piece was featured in The Racket issue 5.
“gravy, baby, and other ways to make love”
I performed this prose poem at San Francisco’s Quiet Lightning in 2010.
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art by Timothy Faust
Evan Karp interviewed me for his San Francisco Weekly column, “The Write Stuff.”
Tahoma Literary Review published a series of my 100-word stories in March 2023 as part of Issue 24. Listen to me reading these stories on their SoundCloud.
“Francesca Verdad and the Superhero Unicorn”
Visible Magazine published my essay about an unexpected road trip to rural Nevada in November 2022.
The Racket published my essay about Israel and adolescence in issue 67. Cover by Michael Amery.
“Starburst,” a series of my 100-word stories, was published in Okay Donkey Mag.
“The Africans”
West Branch Wired published this excerpt from my novel-in-progress, Foreigner, in winter 2014.
“Soloist”
This short piece was published by Fiction365 and performed by Action Fiction in San Francisco by actor Gray Performs.
Cover Image: Untitled (Teacup Murderer/Suit) / Carlos Valencia / 2017
“Yells in the Night”
My poem was featured in The Racket issue 26.
“It’s a Multi World”
My chapter “It’s a Multi World” was published in Girls Know Best 3 by Beyond Words Publishing.
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art by Evan Karp
“this is you”
I performed this piece at Quiet Lightning in 2010.
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art by Michael Capozzola
“jenny and the sea”
I performed this short essay at Quiet Lightning.
“A Model For Utopia”
My essay was included in issue 6 of California Northern.
I was honored to be a featured writer in December 2018 for Plume: A Writers Companion, an amazing literary resource for women and non-binary writers founded by the amazing Melanie Unruh Rodriguez.
I was delighted to join a literary roundtable with Christina Socorro Yovovich, Jennifer Jordan Schaller, Melanie Unruh and Samantha Tetango in May 2021.