Writing
Stories about who we become when we stop hiding.
My fiction and nonfiction return to authenticity, resilience, emotional intimacy, masculinity, desire, and the strange ways people find their way home.
Fiction
Cherry Blossom
A speculative novel set in an alternate 1965 Tokyo, currently being queried.
The Imperfection of Freshly Cut Flowers
A literary novel set in an unnamed island nation in the North Atlantic, exploring grief, beauty, and the aftermath of a devastating tsunami.
Peachtree Street Luck
After his father dies suddenly, a gay man is forced to return to Atlanta and confront the conflict he fled a year earlier; as he begins freeing himself from the past, he forms a friendship with a groom who may be the love of his life, if the groom does not marry someone else the next day.
Plays and screenplays
The Nature of the Beast
A stage play about identity, medicine, desire, and what happens when certainty becomes available in pill form.
Eternal Monday
A grieving husband questions his choices and sexuality after befriending a mysterious man who dies at sunset and resurrects at dawn.
Essays and publications
My flash fiction “Violet” was selected as a BBC Editor’s Choice. “A Mother’s Touch” appeared in The Blue Mountain Review. My humorous essay “How My Mama Taught Me How to Pimp Girl Scout Cookies” was a finalist in the Erma Bombeck Writing Competition.
I also publish four ongoing newsletters: Wayfinding for the Directionally Challenged, hello, body …, Find Yourself at Home, and Hey Music Lover.
Recognition
Lambda Literary Foundation Fellow • BBC Editor’s Choice • Del Shores Foundation Writers Search finalist • Atlanta Film Festival Perfect Pitch semifinalist
Interested in the work?
For representation, publication, adaptation, readings, or creative collaboration, get in touch.