Carmella Brown's reading of my short story collection "Believing is Seeing" is now available from Audible. I've put in the book description from Audible below. I'm delighted with how Carmella Brown brings the stories to life--sometimes in ways I'd expected and sometimes in ways I hadn't--and with how deftly she's managed a book that required … Continue reading Hearing voices

The Lawrence History Center patiently answered my questions while I was researching my novel, and they also sent the novel to some labor scholars who work with them. I was delighted to get the following review from Dexter Arnold, a longtime labor movement worker and member of the United Association of Labor Educators:I’m so glad … Continue reading A delightful book review

My story "Aliens" is now free to read on the website of Mobius: The Journal Of Social Change.Despite the title, this isn't a story about visitors from outer space. Instead it's about the things children (and their adults) hear and think they understand, and about the price we and our neighbors pay for our misunderstandings.As … Continue reading Childhood fears (and grown-up ones)

                                                                          I've always written and spoken freely about religion and politics, but I'm more apt to avoid writing about, or jumping into online discussions of, sexuality. That feels like such a fraught, tender, intimate subject, so easily damaged and distorted by our culture wars. There's no clear home on either side of those wars for … Continue reading Another Way (essay)

This essay was published in They Call Us Sluts And Prudes, available free online here, in December 2021. The editors advise reader discretion for readers under 18, as some written pieces and images in the zine discuss sexual abuse, sex work, and other sensitive topics. There's also some profane language, as the title suggests.                I’m still … Continue reading Another Way (full essay)