It’s another smorgasbord of updates! 

I had a wonderful time joining two classes at my alma mater, Santa Clara University, as a virtual guest speaker over the past couple weeks.  One of my professors, Kirk Glaser, whom I’d run into at the AWP Conference, invited me to speak to the Genre Writing and Literary Magazine Production classes.  We covered a range of topics (rather like this blog post), from special considerations in speculative fiction worldbuilding to contract negotiation.  I really appreciated the students’ engagement and thoughtful questions.  I also attended a virtual poetry reading Kirk did last weekend with Kimiko Hahn and Vijay Seshadri, and I was blown away by all three! 

Meanwhile, the lovely folks at The Hyacinth Review reprinted my poem “The Devil with the Golden Hairs Earns His Sleep,” a retelling of the Grimm fairy tale “The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs” in which we hear from the perspective of the poor unsuspecting monster. 

Later this month I’ll be participating in the Beaverton City Library’s Local Author Fair, along with my frequent partner in crime workshop co-leader, Elizabeth Beechwood.  If you’re in the Portland metro area, come out to my hometown and say hello! 

I’ve got a couple of StokerCon panels in the works, one for the virtual version of the conference and one for the in-person version in San Diego. 

And one last quick update, the Kickstarter campaign for Phantoms from the Sky is wrapping up soon, so if you want a copy of this science fiction anthology (along with some themed poems I wrote as a bonus), show your support now!