Creative Nonfiction

I am experimenting with different genres of creative nonfiction, from memoir to humor to complexly woven historical storytelling. Sometimes I also do a bit of illustrating or cartooning, at times combining art, politics, and humor all at once.

Local Girl Makes History Book Cover

Book:

Local Girl Makes History: Exploring Northern California’s Kitsch Monuments, City Lights Books, 2007.

Vermin Book Cover

Writings:

VERMIN,” self-published and illustrated, 2020.

“Wildfires Rage, Covid Spreads: In California, Life As We Knew It Has Disappeared,” The Guardian, September 3, 2020.

“Honduras: ‘We’re Supporting the Axe Murderers,’” (excerpted from The Long Honduran Night), The Jacobin, November 24, 2018.

“Telephone Not Intervened,” Catamaran Literary Reader, Vol. 6, Issue 1 (Winter 2018).

“Vocabulary Lessons,” The Baffler, No. 23, August 2013 (posted online June 28, 2013).

Drawing of mice near mouse trap eating cheese