I write the fullness of queer life as I understand it: messy, joyful, heartbreaking, and abundant. I write characters who reckon with their deepest desires, who must forge their own meaning, who are forced to reckon with their own failures. My stories are personal, intimate, and engaging, drawing the reader on journeys from soft revelation to devastation to full-body ecstasy. I write as a healing measure, inviting readers to examine our darkest parts so we may move toward wholeness—and to feel into the brightness too, to learn to empower ourselves and grant ourselves what agency we can to build new selves and a new world.
My stories serve as critical interventions in the most pressing issues I see in myself and in our world. I am interested in creating roadmaps to liberation, to the dismantling of toxic shame, and toward real reckoning with the parts of ourselves that keep us small. I am a complex person writing complex people: I bring my experience as a gay transgender man, an experienced practitioner of BDSM, a person in long-term recovery from alcoholism (sober date April 20, 2016), a young widower, and a survivor of sexual trauma, as well as my deep community work with unhoused and incarcerated people, to everything that I do. I am devoted to building a joyful, accountable life in a fucked up world, and building characters who strive to do the same.