09/16/2009 07:20:44
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'mo Magazine (editor-at-large)
’mo was a free, monthly, full-color, printed magazine distributed throughout the Seattle metropolitan area. The magazine celebrated Seattle’s gay community by providing relevant local, regional and international content including: community, nightlife, shopping, love, sex, travel, service, faith, money, health, opinion, flavor, and more.
Gay City: Volume One (editor/curator)
A multi-disciplinary anthology of poetry, fiction, comic art and photography, this collection features work by Donna Barr, Michael Thomas Ford, Peter Pereira, Tom Spanbauer, Eric Orner and many others. As editor, I chose pieces that addressed the Gay City Health Project mission of building community, fostering communication and nurturing self-esteem.
Thuglit: Hardcore Hardboiled (contributor)
From Publishers Weekly
Drawn from Robinson's online magazine Thuglit, these 25 mostly solid crime stories will largely appeal to those with a taste for explicit violence. (For others, one description of mutilated genitalia is likely to be more than enough.) The best entries rely on subtlety and spare character portraits to make their point. My own contribution "The All-Night Dentist" follows a man whose profession is the oral hygiene of the undead, as he plots the grisley murder of his ex-wife. Thuglit is lit-noir for those who like their fiction dark and gritty.
Ellipsis Magazine (contributor)
Sadly now defunct, Ellipsis Magazine was a premier venue for fresh new fiction...like mine. My short-short story "Vivian in Early Mourning"describes an obsessive compulsive woman as she schemes to kill her husband over breakfast.
Lambda Award–winning editor Richard Labonté leaves no fetish unfulfilled in this new collection of gay erotica. This steamy collection contains a wide range of erotic short stories for readers with a taste for sizzling storylines and uninhibited, unrepentant mansex. I always found it somewhat confusing that my short story "You've Heard of It" ended up in an anthology of erotica as it is a rather cynical, melacholy tale. However, Labonté always puts together great collections so I was thrilled to be included in this book.
"Let's eat!" is an appropriate anagram for Seattle, as the Hungry? Seattle dining guide proves with its foodies' tour of the town. From the Scandinavian settlers to the high-tech newcomers who have landed on the shores of the Emerald City, Seattle's food scene meets inhabitants' needs for a rich mix of artisan delicacies, ethnic dishes, and fine fusion cuisines, where eating well doesn't mean breaking the bank. Edited by my first writing mentor, the talented Roberta Cruger, the book is focused on great places to get a great meal for only $10-$15. I was priviledged to contribute several reviews and enjoyed every bite.
Seattle: 150 Years of Progress (contributor)
I contributed several articles to this collection of city history and business/institutional profiles. The book frequently turns up as a corporate gift and has great selection of both old and new photographs.
Blithe House Quarterly (contributor)
A quarterly literary magazine for queer short fiction. Every issue features 6 to 10 short stories. Blithe House publishes lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered fiction not as a genre or a ghetto but as a literature that can stand by any other in its quality and innovation.
One Real Story (contributor)
An online thinktank for creative writers. My short stories, "Jesse" and "Drink from Your Lips While Sleeping" can be found here.
2008 Seattle International Film Festival Guide (Assistant Editor and Contributing Writer)
Along withhelping to edit and produce this guide of more than 320 pages, I wrote film summaries for for 40 of the films including 881, Ask Not, Bad Habits, Baghead, Ballast, Bliss, Bottleshock, Boystown, Breakfast with Skit, Boystown, Brick Lane, Call me Troy, Choke, Dream Boy, Elegy, Empties, Faces, Female Agents, Go with Peace Jamile, Head On, Heartbeat Detector, In July, Jar City, La France, Late Bloomers, Mister Foe, On the Wings of Dreams, One-Hundred Nails, The Pope's Toilet, Saturn in Opposition, Sexy Beast, Sleept Dealer, The Art of Negative Thinking, The Girl by the Lake, The Wackness, This Way Up and Young Adam plus section headers and other copy.
2008 Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival Guide (contributor)
Wrote film summaries for the festival catalog to inform and motivate audiences.
Seattle/Chicago Pride Magazine (Arts & Entertainment Editor/Feature Writer)
Here, I assisted with the editorial calender, created the PR outreach program, assigned and edited submissions in coordination with the editor-in-chief and submitted several pieces of my own writing. These included restaurant and book reviews, business profies, and feature personality interviews with figures like literary icon Gore Vidal, Golden Globe-winner Kimberely Peirce and many others.