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I write personal essays and fiction that explore the intersection of disability, queerness and the aging body and its relationship to the natural world. Perhaps 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 winning My Withered Legs and Other Essays and the Lambda Literary Award finalist memoir A Certain Loneliness as well as two novels—The River’s Memory and The Sacrifice Zone: An Environmental Thriller. My writings have been published by The New York Times, The Sun, Orion, Uncharted, Narratively, The Millions, and The Paris Review.
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