Writing

I am a builder: of stories, structures, movements. I’m a self-employed carpenter for over twenty years, splitting my time between writing, work, and community organizing. I live in Minneapolis Mni Sota Makoce and am active in communities locally and nationally including queer, Jewish, literary, abolitionist, performing arts, antizionist, and tradespeople. I write creative nonfiction and memoir. My writing bridges communities.

“Ride Safe: One dyke’s journey to healing from the West Bank to the West Coast” is my 2025 self-published essay. It’s about healing from personal trauma as an act of community safety, as told through multiple motorcycle trips I took alone beginning in 2005. The essay asks three primary questions: what is safety, how does my positionality inform when and where I feel safe, and what is our individual role in community safety?

My completed manuscript is AGAINST THE GRAIN, a coming-of-age memoir centered around labor that navigates questions of identity, belonging, and the obstacles of patriarchy and racial capitalism. This story follows my work journey from pizza kitchen as a teen to carpentry in my mid-twenties, and what I learn from twenty years working in the trades.

I earned an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Goddard College in July 2020, and am published in the anthologies Queer Voices: Poetry, Prose, and Pride(editors Andrea Jenkins, John Medeiros, and Lisa Marie Brimmer, MN Historical Society Press 2019), Walk Towards It (Ellen Marie Hinchcliffe, editor, Fierce Shimmer Press 2017), and That’s Revolting! Queer Strategies on Resisting Assimilation (Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, editor, Soft Skull Press 2004). I received a MN State Arts Board Grant for writing in 2014.