PUBLICATIONS

2005
Best Sex Writing 2005 (essay anthology)

1995-present
Essays, news stories and profiles
The Daily Beast, Salon, Nerve, The Advocate, Poz, San Francisco Magazine, CNET News.com
(syndications: Associated Press, New York Times on the Web, New York Post, BusinessWeek Online)

PUBLIC READINGS

2008 speaking tour with OH MY GOD: Messiaen in the Ear of the Unbeliever

Berkeley, CA (Jan 25); Greenville, SC (Jan 28); Athens, GA (Jan 30); Columbia, SC (Jan 31); Beaufort, SC (Feb 1); Orangeburg, SC (Feb 3); Montgomery, AL (Feb. 4); Baton Rouge, LA (Feb 6); Lake Worth, FL (Feb 7); Mobile, AL (Feb 8); New York, NY (Feb 27); Taos, NM (Mar 14); San Francisco, CA (Apr 18); Minneapolis, MN (June 26), Los Angeles, CA (Apr 26); Dallas, TX (Sept 26), Chicago, IL (Oct 4 & 8), Sackville, NB, Canada (Oct 16), Austin, TX (Oct 20), Concord, NH (Oct 24), Washington, DC (Library of Congress, Oct 31 and Nov 1)

MARCH 2007
Best Sex Writing 2008
The Center for Sex and Culture
1519 Mission (between 11th St. and South Van Ness), Ste. 2
San Francisco

MARCH 2007
Best Sex Writing 2008
Writers with Drinks, San Francisco

AUG 2007
From novel-in-progress (3rd draft)
Jentel Presents, Sheridan Public Library, Sheridan, WY

DEC 2006
Complete novel-in-progress (2nd draft) 26-hour reading over three days
MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH

OCT 2006
"My Depressed Libido" (essay published on Nerve)
Litquake Lit Crawl, San Francisco

JUNE 2006
Best Sex Writing 2006
Modern Times, San Francisco
Bluestockings Books, New York

FEB 2006
Best Sex Writing 2005
Inside Storytime, San Francisco    

SEPT 2005
Best Sex Writing 2005
Modern Times, San Francisco

MAY 2000
disciplineandpublish.com
Closing ceremonies of my year-long Website for daily writing.
Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin Headlands, CA

FELLOWSHIPS, RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS

2009-2011
ODC Theater, San Francisco

2009
Centre International d'Accueil et d'Echanges des Récollets, Paris

2007
Jentel Artist Residency Program, Banner, WY

2006
MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH

2004 "Maggie Award" from the Western Publisher's Association: "Best Online Article, Interview or News Story"
(with John Borland, David Becker and Mike Yamamoto)

2002
Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, Temecula, CA

2002
Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL

1999 
James Fellowship for the Novel-in-Progress: fiction division finalist

1996
James A. Veech Prize (fiction), Yale

1996
John Hubbard Curtis Prize (literary criticism), Yale

1996
Wallace Memorial Prize (expository writing), Yale: hon. mention

1996
Tinker Prize (outstanding senior in English) Yale: nominee

1996
Transatlantic Review Fiction Contest, Henfield Foundation: nominee

1996
Siobhan Fellowship Competition (non-fiction): semi-finalist

1995
Yale Literary Magazine Short Prose Contest: hon. mention

1995
Henry P. Wright Prize (expository writing), Yale

EDUCATION

1996
B.A., cum laude, major: English (Distinction), Yale University

1993
Cert., Adv. Cert., major: violin, The Juilliard School

- William Randolph Hearst Foundation Scholarship
- Lilly Z. Foldes Fund in Piano and Violin
- Maxwell Elliot Gordon Violin Scholarship

 

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