My Work

Stories from Little Key Press anthologies

  • “Our Song” from Animal Noir, edited by Elizabeth Elle Mitchell [2/24/2026] — An innocent leopard gecko flees to New Growl after a tragic fire, but a mysterious figure known as the Chameleon warns him that he’s in over his head.
    • About Animal Noir: “11 hard-boiled crimes featuring a cast of memorable anthropomorphic animals. New Growl has always had too much crime. From the 20s until its inevitable collapse, eleven authors are exposing the city’s seedy underbelly. The upper echelon, the lower class, and all of the animals in between have their share of problems. Some hire the private detectives or jet to a private island to escape, while others are the ones on-call and in the trenches.”
  • “Create-a-Chimera” from Claw Machine, edited by Elizabeth Elle Mitchell [6/13/2025] — Speculative and dark, but ultimately hopeful, this story follows one of countless unwilling chimera cobbled together from spare parts.
    • About Claw Machine: “In this anthology, claw machines aren’t just beacons for lost dollars and frustration, packed with cheap toys that rarely make it home with us. The claw machine is a game, a curse, a tool, even a drug-induced metaphor. It has omens of death, portals to other dimensions, plushies that aren’t what they seem, eggs filled with wishful thinking, society’s view on perfection, and so much more.”

ToughPigs

In 2021 I joined the writing staff of ToughPigs: Muppet Fans who Grew Up. I adore being part of this community and getting to share my love of all things Henson-related. Here you can find all my articles as well as “Fraggle Talk: Classic,” the podcast I host and produce. Highlights include:

  • “The Fraggle Foodie: Peace Soup” — Recreating recipes from Fraggle Rock: Can world peace be found in a 4-in-1 soup? [2/10/2025]
  • “Don’t Eat the Pictures and the Meaning of Art” — The Sesame Street special from 1983 is funny and has great songs. But did you know it also reveals how and why we interact with art? [11/22/2023]
  • “Pride Month: Fozzie Bear is My Ace of Hearts” — Fozzie Bear is an asexual icon for at least one Muppet fan. [6/17/2022]
  • “The Fraggle Foodie: Doozer Sticks” — How to make (kinda) real (sorta) edible Doozer sticks and accidentally predict the future. [5/9/2022]
  • “Fraggle Talk: Classic” —

Our Muppet Melody

My Muppet music blog, transcribing and musing on the lyrics of (mostly) lesser-known Henson projects.

Inkwell

Inkwell: A Student Guide to Writing at the Evergreen State College was the annual publication written and edited by the peer tutors of Evergreen’s Writing Center.

Screenwriting Portfolio

Currently in development

Novels

Gaudiloquence and the Frozen Story

[finalist in the Middle Grade category of the 2016 PNWA Literary Contest; in revision]

Thirteen-year-old Monoria is exuberant, overly trusting, and a natural storyteller. At her Name Day ceremony, she receives her new adult name of Gaudiloquence. The next morning she discovers that everyone in her town has been frozen, and the Story Fire—the magical fire that holds the town’s stories and memories—has been stolen. Gaudiloquence has always dreamed of living an adventure, but now faced with saving her town as the last woman standing, being an adult is much harder than it looked before. She learns that people will take advantage of her open heart and trusting nature. The only people who take her seriously are a one-handed sorceress, a lovesick minstrel, and a homeless girl with a mysterious past. They help her recover the Story Fire, but she must reawaken it and everyone in her town on her own—and discover why she alone was left unfrozen. Along the way, Gaudiloquence discovers that adulthood, like telling a story, is something you have to create for yourself.

“From the language play—such as giving names to the characters that are rarely used/arcane words in English—to the fantastical world the novel brings the reader into, its details encircling themes of social justice, place, the import of change in one’s life, Frozen Story in all in its inventiveness is shimmering with the sort of ludic lushness that can only come from a talented writer really working and reworking several times over an initial draft borne of a good concept.” —David Wolach, faculty at The Evergreen State College

Princesses in the Trees

[in revision]

Puget Sound faces toxic goop produced by plastic-munching bacteria, women die in childbirth every day, and paper books are the stuff of legend. Fed up with boys’ false accusations of witchcraft, twelve-year-old Jacinda leaves the city streets she has survived in her whole life. Braving the rumors of witches and huge tigerwolves that dwell in the forest, Jacinda finds what she came for: a small community of young women and girls, living high in the treetops and calling themselves princesses. Taken into their self-made tribe, Jacinda hears their heartbreaking stories, learns to forage and hunt, crosses into womanhood, and learns to trust and depend on others. She learns the truth about the rumors of witchcraft and about the wild world around her. Having finally found a place she can call home, she holds her new family together when circumstances threaten to tear them apart.