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Biographical Whatnot

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Writing this bio has got me giving myself the side-eye.

 

TYPICAL ME, TYPICAL ME

I’ve been writing professionally since 1996, during which time I’ve published work about social media celebrity for Jezebel; female jockeys, cuddle parties, gentrification, and much more for the East Bay Express; cocktails for Oakland magazine; music for Creative Loafing Tampa (then the Weekly Planet) and others; and fashion and style for Shojo Beat. I am the former editor-in-chief of the late, great Bay Area arts-and-culture quarterly Kitchen Sink, to which I contributed short fiction, essays about rock musicals and my sex life, and a large portion of blood, sweat, tears, and love. 

Raised on Long Island and softened by the South, I’ve made my home in Oakland, California, since 2001, where I live with my grumpy husband and our jerk of a dog. By day I raise money for the most prestigious public university in the world; by night (and early morning) I volunteer for the mighty KALX, grapple with writing trashy fiction, and try not to grow old too gracelessly.

SOME COOL WRITERS I’M FRIENDS WITH

  • Elizabeth Costello
  • Jeff T. Johnson
  • Manjula Martin
  • Kaya Oakes
  • Amy Reed
  • Kate Schatz

SOME FAVORITE PODCASTS (because why not)

  • Another Round
  • Cocaine and Rhinestones
  • Mystery Show
  • Reply All
  • Yo, Is This Racist?
  • You Must Remember This

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