About

I write poems and ritual texts for the forgotten, the ungoverned, and the unrepentant. My work honors the unsaid, the shadowed, and the medicinal—what roots, what scars, what refuses to be buried. I believe poetry can be a kind of divination, an offering, a reckoning—a talisman that can replace your identification, your passport, your given name.

My writing has appeared in various literary publications, and I am the author of Talisman: A Novel of Amnesia, as well as several unpublished sequences, field guides, and altar-texts in progress. I often work in hybrid forms, crossing the boundaries between incantation, confession, and wound-document.

I write from the edges, not the center. I am not here to explain myself. Only to witness, to record, and sometimes to burn it all down.

I live in the deep woods of Northern California, on the native land and home of the Kashaya Pomo, with my family and two dogs, Rosie Farstar and Ilumina Holy Dog. I am a lifelong student and practitioner of herbal and ancestral medicine.