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I'm a writer in Oakland. When I'm fortunate enough to have something published, I'll add it to the list below.


Fiction

Dagny - novella, published April 22, 2023 by Nat 1 Publishing. Available on Bookshop.org and Amazon in paperbook or ebook. If you have a library card in California, you can read the ebook for free on BiblioBoard.

"The characterization and the narrative give this story its heart, but the imagery and the author's descriptive style allow the story to shine."
- Independent Book Review
"The author is a master storyteller and has readers enthralled from the very beginning."
- Readers' Favorite
dagny cover art by rebecca clegg Dagny embarks on what seems like a straightforward quest: to recover her family's herd of reindeer, stolen by a troll and taken into a mystical Scandinavian forest. And she intends to use a straightforward sort of magic for the job: elven rune magic that her father taught to Dagny and her brother. But to survive an encounter with a dangerous shadow creature in the forest, Dagny must discover her own powers beyond anything she was taught, and she must confront what could present the most danger of all: the wild spirit inside herself.

The Fantastic Four Host Muslim Christmas! - short story, published in the Spring 2020 edition of UW-Milwaukee's Furrow Magazine. The edition of the magazine containing this story won the 2021 National Program Directors' Prize for Content from the Association of Writers and Writing Programs.

Spring 2020 Furrow Magazine


The Body of Stone - short story, published in the Spring 2020 edition of City College of San Francisco's Forum Magazine.

Spring 2020 Forum Literary Magazine


Ready - short story, published in Ripples in Space in their Fall 2019 selections.

Here in the Afterlife - short story, published in the Spring 2019 edition of City College of San Francisco's Forum Magazine. Republished in the Fall 2019 edition of College of DuPage's Prairie Light Review.

Ghost Dance - short story, published in the Spring 2018 edition of City College of San Francisco's Forum Magazine.


Poetry

Crossing - published in the Spring 2020 edition of City College of San Francisco's Forum Magazine.

Court Geometry - published in the Spring 2020 edition of City College of San Francisco's Forum Magazine.

Luggage Fee - published in the Spring 2020 edition of City College of San Francisco's Forum Magazine.

Order - published in the Fall 2019 edition of City College of San Francisco's Forum Magazine.

Birch - published in the Spring 2019 edition of City College of San Francisco's Forum Magazine.


Nonfiction

Dockless - short nonfiction, published in the Spring 2022 edition of City College of San Francisco's Forum Magazine.


Music

My instrumental music is shared on SoundCloud with a Creative Commons license and has been used in some videos (most commonly for app previews in the App Store). Feel free to use any piece for your project, if you like.

Good Day Sir ยท Free App Store Preview Music