2024

12/5 • reading & panel • The Fabulist • Hungry Gods: Readings Against our Authoritarian Moment • Adobe Books • San Francisco

10/26 • reading • The Fabulist • LitCrawl • Shotwell's • San Francisco

9/20 • reading • Reading & Meeting • The Writers Grotto • San Francisco

9/10 • reading • Happy Endings • The Make-Out Room • San Francisco

9/8 • reading • Sci-Fi Sundays • The Passionate Feast • Crockett

6/6 • talk • The Wildcraft Drones • Thought Experiments in Science and Fiction • Santa Fe Institute

5/19 • Sci-Fi Sundays • The Passionate Feast • Crockett

3/28 • Literary Speakeasy • Martuni’s • San Francisco

2/22 • reading • TJPA’s Salesforce Park Words & Stories • Salesforce Park • San Francisco

2/13 • reading • Happy Endings • The Make-Out Room • San Francisco

1/19 • reading • Reading & Meeting • The Writers Grotto • San Francisco

2023

1/11 • reading • Fabulist Creative Retreat • The Drift Inn • Yachats • Oregon

1/11 • panel • Breaking the Rules for Fun and Profit • World Fantasy Con • Kansas City

1/11 • panel • Technomagic •World Fantasy Con • Kansas City

1/11 • panel • Hopepunk • Watertown Free Public Library • Watertown • Massachusetts

1/11 • reading • World Fantasy Con • Kansas City

1/11 • reading • LitQuake / Why I Still Heart San Francisco • Page Street • San Francisco

1/11 • reading • Reading & Meeting, The Writers Grotto • LitQuake, San Francisco

1/11 • reading • Club Chicxulub • The Golden Bull • Oakland

My first real book is officially getting published! I'll keep this space updated as we get closer to the publication date. There's four stories in it that are already published, and three of them can be read online right now:
- "Davu the Explorer and the Druid Tía Yara"
- "Squawker and Dolphin Swimming Together"
- "A Holdout in the Northern California Designated Wildcraft Zone"
- "The Roots in the Box and the Roots in the Bones" is also in it, although currently available only in print, in the January/February 2023 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction.

I'm also working on at least five more for the collection this year, so more than half the book will be new, original stories. All of them take place in the same timeline, from the near to distant future, and explore the relationship between nature, technology and humanity in a world that's doing an okay job of handling the climate crisis. That is to say, a lot better than we're doing now, but pretty far from perfect. It's an "ambiguous utopia," as LeGuin would say. Some have called the stories so far solarpunk and hopepunk, and I think those fit the overall tone of the collection, though there are definitely moments that are more punk than hope. My influences range from Cordwainer Smith to Robin Wall Kimmerer to Peter S. Beagle, so I dunno, you'll probably like it? I wrote a lot about the work that into the worldbuilding over on the Asimov's author blog in a post called Finding and Breaking Utopia.

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