I am a novelist, poet, and essayist. I've published many books and a handful of chapbooks. I specialize in genre-bending work that focuses on feminism, sexuality, cultural artifacts both high and low, and all things queer. I champion the vulnerable, the fractured, the disenfranchized, the fucked-up. I believe the spiritual and the political can be found in the most unlikely places. I love the essay as a form for I feel it can encompass everything; it's the closest prose can get to poetry without mimicking it. 2018-19 I was the subject of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art’s On Our Mind program, a year-long series of public events, commissioned essays, and reading group meetings inspired by an artist’s writing and lifework. As part of my season, the Wattis sponsored a year of Mirage/Period[ical], the monthly Xeroxed zine my husband Kevin Killian and I published 155 issues of between 1992 and 2009. Charles Bernstein once said that Mirage/Period[ical] represented the absolute low end of high art. We take that as a compliment.