“Cool gay writer with a new book out!”
I'm one of the easternmost lesbians in the United States. I'm a well-published author with a new book out called Shift: A Memoir of Identity and Other Illusions. I founded and am now director of Iota: Short Prose Conference in Maine, and I have served as an editor of Brevity magazine, so I can talk about flash nonfiction. I'm funny and quick on my feet. I am also a person in sustained recovery from alcoholism, which I have written and published about extensively. I can talk about writing, transitioning from straight to gay at the age of 39, queer rurality, same sex marriage, alcoholism, recovery, feminism, dogs, kids, writing with an intense day job, and whatever else someone might propose.
“Then I was drunk for many years; and then I died.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald, On Booze When I pulled F. Scott Fitzgerald from my bag, things were often stuck to his head. A quarter. Paper clip. Tin of curiously strong mints. It’s the magnet beneath the sienna fuzz of his hair that did... Read more »
