community

ORGANIZING + FACILITATING

• ARTISTS&& ORGANIZER (2024 - PRESENT) ● VANCOUVER BC, SEATTLE, WA + BEYOND
  ARTISTS&& IS AN EVENT SERIES DEDICATED TO HELPING ARTISTS BUILD MEANINGFUL COMMUNITY. WE SEEK TO PLATFORM LGBTQIA+ AND UNDERREPRESENTED ARTISTS. MORE AT AND-AND.CA.

• WRITE DOE BAY RETREAT - ORGANIZER (2020-2024) ● ORCAS ISLAND, WA

  WRITE IS A MULTI-GENRE RETREAT HELD TWICE A YEAR AT THE INCOMPARABLE DOE BAY RESORT ON ORCAS ISLAND.
  

• LET THE DESERT HAVE ITS WAY RETREAT - FOUNDER (MAY 2022) ● MOJAVE DESERT, CA

  LET-THE-DESERT (OR “LEZ DEZ”) WAS A TRIAL RETREAT TO IMAGINE NEW WAYS OF FORMING QUEER ARTISTIC COMMUNITY. WE GATHERED UNDER THE SUPER FLOWER BLOOD MOON ECLIPSE TO ENVISION COMMUNITIES OF SUPPORT + CARE.
  

• RACCONTRE STORYTELLING SERIES FOR EMERGING WRITERS + COMEDIANS - FOUNDER + HOST (2016-2017) ● VANCOUVER, BC

  AN IN-PERSON READING SERIES FOR FOLKS TO GAIN PERFORMING EXPERIENCE (AND FOR BEER-DRINKERS AT LUPPOLO BREWING TO HEAR SOME STORIES)
  

• CAN WE GO THROUGH IT TOGETHER? - FOUNDER ● BC+WA
  AN EXPERIMENTAL SOUND + WRITING GROUP SKILL-TRADING ACROSS POETRY, SOUND ART, + MORE

TEACHING

• “BETWEEN THE PAGE AND THE PLANETARY” A 6-WEEK POETRY + PROSE WORKSHOP. ONLINE. RECURRING.
  

• “FINDING OUR RITUALS, QUEERING OUR PRACTICE” IN-PERSON WORKSHOP. WRITE DOE BAY, SPRING 2022.
  

• I AM AVAILABLE TO TEACH GENERATIVE POETRY + PROSE WORKSHOPS IN PERSON AND ONLINE. WRITERS I LOVE TO READ IN COMMUNITY INCLUDE BHANU KAPIL, CACONRAD, HOA NGUYEN, OCEAN VUONG, ADRIANNE LENKER, ADA LIMON, MELISSA FEBOS, KAREN SOLIE (+ MANY MANY MORE).