Published Fiction and Awards
- “Blanca and the Ruins” (March, 2016) – SCBWI LA Writer’s Day 2016 YA Winner of the Work-in-Progress Contest
- “Infrared” (February, 2016) – Ursa Minor: “True North” (UC Berkeley)
- “Dealan Dhe” (August, 2015) – Dactyl Magazine: “Elements and Origins” (also sold at the 2015 Edinburgh International Book Festival)
- “Drop” (May, 2015) – DASH Literary Journal
- “Conditionals” (April, 2014) – Santa Fe Writers Project
- “At Bike’s End” (May, 2013) – Stanford Story Slam 2013 – 2nd Place Winner, Collaborative Story written with Cynthia Bermudez, Anthony Lanni, and Taylor Ross
- “The Red Envelope” (April, 2013) – 100 Word Story
- Flash Fiction Contest 2nd Place Winner (August 19, 2012) – Writer Unboxed
- “Becoming a Burner” (October 23, 2009) – Winner of the SBCC Student Symposium (sponsored by The Big Read, an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts) Excerpt: Forty eight thousand Burners met in the Black Rock Desert this year. I was not among them. I am still a Montag before becoming a “book,” a Montag before the bombs split open the city. I have not yet reached the post-apocalyptic realm of Black Rock Desert that hosts the Burning Man Festival every year. But as Fahrenheit 451 begins, I begin with hope and longing. The similarities between the world Ray Bradbury wrote and the world we live in today are too striking and obvious to list. It is the hope that is hard to find. ….
Published Inspirational Blog Posts for Fiction Writers:
- Untold Stories from Elsewhere :: Middle East – Office of Letters and Light (NaNoWriMo) Blog
- Photo Story: The Young Writers Program, Authors-to-be, and You – Office of Letters and Light (NaNoWriMo) Blog
- Dare to Wear Pink – Office of Letters and Light (NaNoWriMo) Blog
- The Impossible Infomercial – Office of Letters and Light (NaNoWriMo) Blog
- News from the Crossroads – Office of Letters and Light (NaNoWriMo) Blog
Holy Smokes, I’ve Arrived in NaNoLand! – Office of Letters and Light (NaNoWriMo) Blog
