A newsletter devoted to storytelling, narrative, and demystifying the writer's life, from a queer, working class perspective.
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Sixteen Years After My Mother's Suicide, I Still Write About Her Death
A Note: Today’s SURFACING workshop has been pushed back to June 13th at 3pm EST. If you want to join, please register HERE so I can have an idea of how many people are joining. My website still has today’s date listed, but I’ll change that...
What I Do When I Hit Writer's Block
Since the publication of Hotshot: A Life On Fire, I’ve been working on my next book, which delves into the aftermath of my mother’s suicide, as well as a novel.
Hotshot is a particular book, written in a particular mode, honed over years...
Surfacing: A Generative Writing Session
Hello! I’m leading a generative writing session on May 9th, from 3-430pm EST, via Zoom.
This session is free for all yearly paying subscribers. If that’s you, and you’d like to join, please register through this Google Form and leave a not...
Reflections: One (Duchamp and Glück)
Reflections is a new series meant to help us pause and find inspiration.
(photo by Suzanne Saroff)
I recently read this piece on Marcel Duchamp’s MOMA exhibition by Hilton Als in The New Yorker. The essay is well worth a read, but what s...
A Belated Earth Day Transmission
Hi! If you’re a free subscriber to this newsletter, and you’ve found refuge in my words at any point, please pre-order a paperback copy of HOTSHOT! The paperback debuts on May 12th, and any pre-orders help the publisher know that people wan...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Ex-firefighter; PhD candidate; autistic, queer, nonbinary person; hype man in civvies. My memoir, HOTSHOT, is available wherever books are sold.
Jen hates bios. She’s deaf, reads lips, mishears everything (what she hears is funnier.) Best-selling author: On Being Human & Proof Of Life. Painter/ poet/ keynote speaker. Retreats: Ojai, Italy, Writing/creativity workshops online
A 501(c)3 organization founded to offer a community-wide celebration of literature annually on the University of Arizona campus in Tucson, Arizona. One of the largest literary festivals in the U.S. Named one of 9 worth traveling to in the world.
flannel thief and plant enthusiast; former wildland firefighter. author of the memoir WILDFIRE DAYS (Scribner, 2025). writing coach.
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