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Selected Publications

Books
Invasions Instar. 2018.

Journals
“Moonstruck” Los Angeles Review of Books. Forthcoming.

“What did I Have to Lose: Reading Edward Abbey in Arizona” Off Assignment. June 2026.

“Sweating It Out” Los Angeles Review of Books. February 2026

“Filthy Matters” Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly. No. 47 Winter 2025

“High School” Joyland. July 2025.

“Lions and Tigers” The Stinging Fly. Summer 2025.

“Eye and Mind” A Public Space. No. 32 2025.

“Burned Location” Kenyon Review. May/June 2022.

“Among Men” Ploughshares.Summer 2021.

“Devotions”The Account Magazine.Spring 2020.

“Art Is A City In The Desert” Electric Literature.September 2017.

“You Wouldn't Have Known About Me” Electric Literature.February 2017.

“Velcro”Leopardskin & Limes. September 2016

“Eternal Boy” Provocateur.2016.

“The Epiphany” Jonathan. Fall 2015.

“That Hollywood Stuff” Jonathan. Fall 2015.

“Invasion”Jonathan. Fall 2015..

“Velcro”cream city review.Spring/Summer 2015.

“Catcher on the Sly” SHIFT. Summer 2015.

“Trans/Prison”Make Out Magazine. Spring 2015.

“Eternal Boy” Plentitude.February 2015.

“Catcher on the Sly” Bareback Lit. September 2014.

“Operation Soap” Glitterwolf.July 2014.

“Innovation, Reversal, and Change” THEM. Fall 2013.

“Bike Breaker” Gravel. November 2013.

Anthologies
“High School” Best American Short Stories 2026. Mariner Books 2026.

“Future Past” Edge of the World: An Anthology of Queer Travel Writing. Blair 2025. (Finalist, 2026 Lambda Literary Award)

“Jello Boy” A Great Gay Book. ABRAMS 2024.

“Among Men” Best American Essays 2022. Mariner Books 2022.

“Rent, Don’t Sell” Il Mio Genere èSecretato.Associazione Future Fiction 2022.

“Rent, Don't Sell” Meanwhile, Elsewhere.Topside 2017. (Winner, 2018 ALA Stonewall Book Award)

“And Then This” Hashtag Queer. Qommunity LLC 2017.

“Tenderloin (Prologue).” Jack Straw Writers Anthology. Jack Straw Center 2017.

“Runaways”The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard.Topside 2012. (Winner, 2013 Lambda Literary Award)

Criticism and Interviews
“Interview with McKenzie Wark” Ask Feeld. July 2026

“On the Daily Humanity of Trans Life in Casey Plett’s Dream of a Woman”Literary Hub. March 2026

“‘90s Earthquakes” Gertrude.August 2021

Fellowships, Grants, Awards

2025 Boston Cultural Council Organizational Grant (for T4T Reading Series)

2025 Mass Cultural Council Festivals & Projects Grant (for T4T Reading Series)

2024-25 MFJC Fellowship Grant

2024 City of Boston Beyond Pride Mini-Grant (for T4T Reading Series)

2024 Boston Cultural Council Organizational Grant (for T4T Reading Series)

2024 Studios at MASS MoCA Massachusetts Artist Fellowship

2023 Mass Cultural Council Cultural Sector Recovery Grant

2022 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship

2022 Seattle CityArtist Award

2020 Lambda Literary Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging Writers

2019 4Culture Art Projects Grant

2019 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction (for Invasions), Finalist

2017 Jack Straw Writers Fellowship

2017 4Culture Art Projects Grant

2017 Speculative Literature Foundation Working Class Writer's Grant

2017 Montana Book Festival Emerging Writer's Contest, Finalist

2016 Artist Trust Grants for Artist Projects

2014 Prism Comics Queer Press Grant

2011 Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship

Residencies

2026 Woodward Guest Residency

2025 Rockland Residency

2024 Studios at MASS MoCA Artist Residency

2019 Eulalie and Carlo Scandiuzzi Writers' Room, Resident

2017 CODEX/Writer's Block Residency

2017 Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts Residency

Education

B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz, 2012; Magna Cum Laude

Freie Universität, Berlin

Memberships and Organizations
2023-2025 Director and Host of T4T Reading Series

2024 Juror for Studios at MASS MoCA

2023 Founder, T4T Reading Series

2022 Juror for Lambda Literary Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize

2021 Juror for Lambda Literary Judith A. Markowitz Award

2020 Juror for 4Culture Art Projects

2015 Screening Committee for the Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival

2014-2017 Steward and Member of The Lion's Main Art Collective for Queer and Trans Artists

2013 Co-Founder, Lion’s Main Art Collective for Queer and Trans Artists

Selected Teaching/Lectures
2026 A Public Space Academy Instructor

2024 Harvard University Graduate School of Design Penny White Project Advisor

2024 Panel Discussion with Grub Street Center for Creative Writing; Boston, MA

2023 Write or Die Workshop Leader

2021-22 Meta Open Arts Teaching Artist

2022 Trans Histories, Trans Futures Panel Discussion at Seattle Public Library

2019 Lecture for Community Immersion Program; Bellevue College

2016-17 Blanket Fort Films Motion Picture Community Education Program

Module Lead, Screenwriting and Directing

Instructor, Screenwriting 101

2016 Panel Discussion with MOTHA at Henry Art Gallery; Seattle, WA

2011 Queer and Asian Conference; University of California, Berkeley

2010 Western Regional Conference; University of California, Santa Cruz