bio
I'm an enrolled member of the Karuk Tribe of California. I grew up in southern California and graduated from Agoura High School and University of California at Santa Barbara. After a series of jobs that weren't wonderful I completed a paralegal training program through UCLA Extension.
Then the fun really began because I couldn't find a job or even a job interview and ran out of money and kept moving and sleeping on couches until I ended up in Portland, Oregon. There I did a ton of different jobs until I got my big break as a paralegal working with Indian Tribes and Tribal organizations. I'm still at it after 20 years.
I'm married and live in Vancouver, Washington where I grow pumpkins and dahlias and take pictures of them. No children or pets. I enjoy baking, yoga, organizing and the Portland Timbers.
I've been writing since the beginning of time but nothing came of it until 2007 when I won second prize in Wordstock, the book festival in Portland, Oregon.
I used that story to apply to Clarion West and graduated from the workshop in 2008.
These are my blogposts from the workshop: Overview, Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4 part 1, Week 4 part 2, Week 5 and Week 6.
publications
Red Tape Stories from Indian Country (April 2012). Available for Kindle and all other eReading devices. Nine stories all in one handy place.
"Lottie v. The Moon Hopper" Future Lovecraft (Innsmouth Free Press, Dec 2011) Available Now.
"The Battle of Little Big Science in Asimov's August 2010. Reprinted in Expanded Horizons, June 2011. You can also find it in Second Science Fiction Megapack from Wildside Press for $1 (ereader).
"Estelle Makes the Casino Run" in Innsmouth Free Press June 2010.
"Social Security" in Wordstock 10 2007
sample stories
I wrote this for my Holiday 09 newsletter.
I wrote this for a contest and spruced it up for the Holiday 10 newsletter.
I wrote a story for the Machine of Death 2 anthology which didn't get accepted. Now it's the Holiday 11 story.
At the moment, most of the stuff I'm writing is set in Indian Country, often with a speculative element. I'm still writing stories and trying to turn one of my Clarion West stories into a novel.
