On April 19, 2003 I had an on the job injury that left me with chronic back pain and eventually cost me my ranger career. Over the years...

I’m a self-taught comic book artist. I took art classes every chance I had at Marsh Valley High School back in Idaho, but it wasn’t as if...

I still hadn’t told anyone that I thought I was a lesbian when I started college in 1985. I didn’t know any out LGBT people although I...

My mind’s eye is blind. I have aphantasia or the inability to conjure visual imagery in my mind. This impacts my fictional writing when...

Earlier this week the Retrograde Communications crew wrapped the May/June issue of Plus magazine focused on those who have recently...

I’ve tended to avoid being really public with my struggles around pain and disability and some of the reasons are that when you do share...

I was moved beyond words when Beverly Little Thunder—a Two-Spirit Native American activist, Standing Rock Lakota Elder, and author of the...

A reviewer for Kirkus recently said my novel, Swimming Upstream, had a significant anti-war theme. He’s right. But here’s what he got...

This is me in 1979 with Buttercup, one of our Saanen goats in the corral I helped my father build. Like my character Ki, I was raised on...

Swimming Upstream is a work of fiction, but it has been deeply informed by my own experiences growing up. Like Ki and Brooke I grew up in...