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I write personal essays and fiction that are often about the body (these days aging body) and its relationship to the natural world whether that’s a character who is transforming into her alligator self or me hiking the rim of the Grand Canyon in my wheelchair—which keeps stalling on precipices probably from the cold but maybe from being left out on the tarmac in pouring rain beside the plane on the way across the country.

I’m the author of the Lambda Literary Award nominated memoir A Certain Loneliness which explores the intersections of disability, queerness, and desire. My writings have been published in The New York Times, The Sun, Orion, and The Paris Review. In 2024 the University of Georgia Press is publishing my next book—My Withered Legs and Other Essays.

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A free subscription will allow you to read the essays and the first three chapters of The Sacrifice Zone: An Environmental Thriller which is a novel I serialized here on Substack. A paid subscription will give you access the rest of the novel (text and audio).

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Writer, Old Polio, Lesbian, and Lover of Swamps and Salt Marshes. I was in my sixties when my first books were published. NYT, Sun, Paris Review. THE SACRIFICE ZONE, an environmental thriller of a novel, is available here in text or audio for $8.