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THE TRUTH ABOUT SECRETS
​A Memoir-in-Verse
OUT NOW!
from Strikethrough Press
​available on Amazon.
Independent Author Network ​Finalist in Non-Fiction YA/Teen and Non-Fiction LGBTQ+
1987: Hazel is in Sixth Grade. 
Three things consume her:
how to be Pretty when she’s not allowed makeup
how to be Cool when she’s just not
and somehow getting her crush to ask her out.

​Oh, and one more thing:
keeping her biggest secret.
PROSE
Take a Minute Substack, with two teachers--Hazel and Noriko--unwiring from tech-bound classrooms.
"Books To See Us Through" : Review of my earliest pandemic lifelines: Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being and Ross Gay's The Book of Delights at "High Country News."
"The Power of Story" : "The Sun" Magazine : Interview with Jared Seide on how Listening to Each Other can Restore our Humanity.
"House Engraved": Flash Essay in "Cultural Weekly": About what mourning looks like in a haunted season.
"The Other Side of Quiet":  Essay in "Mutha Magazine" : The story of my EarlyBoy's unexpected arrival, and the unexpected things it taught me.
"My Humble Submission" : On Submitting Writing into the World.
"Students Remind Us: Make the Struggle Beautiful" : Essay on the UTLA Teacher's strike, dance activism, and where teachers get their best inspiration (page 7).
"Teaching While Breathless" : Essay on breathing through the high seas of classroom, of a writing life.
"The Storm Between Us" : Essay reprinted in "Lunch Ticket," originally published in "Bellevue Literary Review."
"Skin in the Game: A Letter to the Mostly White Parents in my Hometown on How to be the Change" : Essay at "Integrated Schools."
"The Lady of the Watch": Essay in Zoetic Press's NonBinary Review, Anne of Green Gables Issue, about what the Lady of Shallot had to teach me, reprinted in Women Who Submit's anthology, "Accolades" 
"Whirl" : Flash Essay at "Angels Flight Literary West."
POETRY
"Father Light" in Bellevue Literary Review's Issue 47: Body Politic
For Women Who Roar: "LGBTQ Poems" : Pride Poems celebrating my mamas: "Quonset Hut of Love," "Pride Before the Fall," "The Talk."
"Blessing In Fire: A Villanelle for Public Education" : An LAUSD Strike Poem at Cultural Weekly.
Poems for the "Disarm" series at "Rising Phoenix Review," a Themed issue Responding to Mass Shooting in America. 
"there is no room Inside this room" 
"Offering" 
"Lockdown Ready"
"Done" : Protest poem at Lady/Liberty/Lit, about one small and mighty response to the 2016 debacle.
"Ode to the Man Inside and the Letter he will not get because he was transferred to a new prison on Tuesday last" :"Rising Phoenix Review," for Eze, and his innocence.
"The Week Before," "Hoofbeat Heartbeat," "First Sight," "how to become unraveled": Poems at Sixfold on my EarlyBoy and life in the NICU.
"At the Intersection" : Poem in "Rising Phoenix Review", on coming to terms with all I do not know.
PRESS
Part 1: KCRW:"Greater LA" Interview: On the wobbly shift to remote learning in time of COVID-19 
Part 2: KCRW:"Greater LA" Update on remote learning
Part 3: KCRW:"Greater LA" End of School
Part 4: KCRW:"Greater LA" "Back" to School 
"Think" Strike Dance : Viral Video of my dance activism dream, the UTLA "Public Ed Dance Challenge" performed during our historic strike, in support of Schools our Students Deserve.
​"LAUSD strike dancers get viral boost from Rep. Ocasio-Cortez" in Los Angeles Times.
"What My Students Taught Me" Interview with Hazel and former student / forever inspiration Drew on KPCC's "Take Two."

"Be a Lamp

Or a Life-boat

Or a Ladder"
​
​~Rumi

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