I believe making progressive public policy is an act of science fiction and takes intense creativity; that’s why this incarnation of my blog is about San José politics or TechWomen. But if you’re looking for my more traditionally published creative writing, you can find a sampling here:
- Short Story: “A Cluster of Lights Like a Galaxy or a Life,” Tricorder (July 2022)
- Essay: “Time Travel with a Twist,” MythPrint from the Mythopoeic Society (June 2022)
- Report on the 6 Day War: “An Undeserted Desert,” Galactic Journey (June 2022)
- Essay: “After Dune (The Fantastic Setting of Yemen),” Galactic Journey (May 2022)
- Review: “A Queer Dream (The CBS Documentary ‘The Homosexuals’),” Galactic Journey (April 2022)
- Review: “Operation: Indecision!” Galactic Journey (April 2022)
- Review: “A Mixed Manipulation,” Galactic Journey (April 2022)
- Review: “A Peaceful Fantasy,” Galactic Journey (March 2022)
- Review: “Fighting Fire with Empathy,” Galactic Journey (March 2022)
- Review: “A Cold, Cruel Counting,” Galactic Journey (March 2022)
- Review: “Not My Superman,” Galactic Journey (February 2022)
- Review: “A Perfect Society for Whom?” Galactic Journey (February 2022)
- Review: “Better Than Perry Mason,” Galactic Journey (February 2022)
- Review: “Captain Kirk and the Myth of Empty Land,” Galactic Journey (January 2022)
- Review: “Diplomacy, Even When It’s Hard,” Galactic Journey (January 2022)
- Review: “An Illogical Logic,” Galactic Journey (January 2022)
- Review: “A First True Trekian Tragedy,” Galactic Journey (December 2021) [Included in the 2021 Hugo’s Packet]
- Review: “A Glance at Captain Kirk’s Psychology,” Galactic Journey (December 2021)
- Review: “From Carthage then I came by Douglas R. Mason,” Galactic Journey (December 2021)
- Review: “Spock Scheherazades His Way To Freedom,” Galactic Journey (December 2021)
- Review: “A Different Kind of Man Behind the Curtain,” Galactic Journey (November 2021)
- Review: “The Mythopoeia of Star Trek,” Galactic Journey (November 2021) [Included in the 2021 Hugo’s Packet]
- Review: “Child Vampires Without the Blood,” Galactic Journey (November 2021)
- Review: “Clear as Mud,” Galactic Journey (October 2021)
- Report: “Mythcon51,” MythPrint from the Mythopoeic Society (October 2021)
- Review: “A Color Theory of Good and Evil,” Galactic Journey (October 2021)
- Review: “Questioning Boldly Going,” Galactic Journey (October 2021)
- Review: “What makes Charlie X so frightening?” Galactic Journey (September 2021)
- Poetry Book: Poems from the Garden: A pandemic year in sonnets and sloppier forms (April 2021)
- Short Story: “The Heart That Kills,” The Oakland Review (Summer 2020)
- Creative Nonfiction: “Blue Angels,” The Oakland Review (Spring 2019)
- Poetry: “Spawn,” “The Garden of Arden,” Imagoes Anthology (Spring 2019)
- Short Story: “To Free A Genie,” Geek Out! (Fall 2018)
- Poem: “The Garden of Arden,” RFD Magazine (Fall 2018, #175)
- Poem: “The Mountains We Avoid,” RFD Magazine (Fall 2018, #175)
- Poem: “Instructions to a Newly Dead Merwoman,” Hashtag Queer Anthology (Summer 2018)
- Nonfiction Essay: “Colusa County,” The Oakland Review (Spring 2018)
- Nonfiction Essay: “Biking in the Rain,” Dossier (2010).
- Poem: “Haiku” Dossier (2010).
- Nonfiction Essay: “High School Politics,” She’s Such a Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology, and Other Nerdy Stuff, ed Annalee Newitz (former editor-in-chief of Gizmodo and io9, current Cultural Editor for Ars Technica) and Hugo winner Charlie Jane Anders, (2006).
More on my tech conference presentation here.