April 8, 2026

One of my favorite authors is Ursula Le Guin. She wrote ground-breaking, gender-bending novels of fantasy and science fiction with some dark-skinned characters. I’m currently rereading The Lathe of Heaven, my favorite work besides The Left Hand of Darkness and her lesser known The Beginning Place. Recently, I came across a social media post lauding…

four men in front of a store in Chavez Ravine
August 21, 2025

They say, “write what you know.” But when I decided to set several of my stories in Chavez Ravine, I didn’t know the area in Los Angeles first-hand. The city had evicted the residents long before I was born. But my mother and her family talked about what it was like living in the hilltop…