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I write personal essays and fiction that are often about the disabled body (and 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 My Withered Legs and Other Essays and 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, Narratively, The Millions, and The Paris Review.
So for tales of my seventy year experience of disability, travel essays, the sometimes slapstick humor of using a wheelchair, writings about becoming a writer later in life, and an exploration of the necessary strategies needed to build community in this time of attacks on bodily autonomy—subscribe.
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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