You can read all about me on my professional website, but here’s the Bloggy First Person Cliff Notes:

I’m a queer & genderqueer femme writer, writing instructor, cultural worker, and performer pursuing a Master of Fine Arts in Fiction Writing at San Francisco State University. I’ve been a sex worker for roughly a decade (although I’m mostly a student at present). I teach Sex Workers’ Writing Workshop — a monthly writing workshop for current & former sex workers — at San Francisco’s Center for Sex & Culture. I’m also the founder and co-curator, with Elena Rose and Julia Serano, of “Girl Talk: a trans & cis woman dialogue,” a spoken-word show promoting dialogue & community between queer trans and queer non-trans women (if you wanna bring us to your campus or community center, contact me, Rose, or Julia, please!).

If you’d like to hire me as a freelance writer, book me for a performance (including Girl Talk) or writing workshop, or want to model for you, please check out my website and send me an email at queershoulder[@]gmail[.]com.

This blog serves many purposes for me — sharing new work & works in progress, keeping in touch with old friends, making new friends, and keeping an eye on what’s happening on the interwebs… But mostly? It’s where I blow off steam from graduate school and talk about which David Bowie song is the queerest.

Autobiographical info that might be interesting:
* I’ve been out as queer since I was 11, and that has very much shaped my experience of the world/my life.
* I’m a Bay Area native — I grew up in Sunnyvale and in San Francisco’s Ingleside/Lakeview District. Right now I live in a sweet little South Mission studio with a grandma landlady, a fig tree in the backyard, and a talkative tortoiseshell.
* I’m Southern Italian (Calabrese). Also, Dutch & Croatian, but the Italian side of my family raised me. This is a pretty important part of my cultural identity.
* I really love to cook. Sometimes I go on about cooking here.
* Both my blood & my chosen family are very important to me.