Short Fiction, Essays & Book Reviews

 
 

Fourteen Days

(2024)

A collaborative novel about the early days of the covid-19 pandemic in Manhattan, where residents of a tenement building on the Lower East Side gather each night to tell stories from their lives as the ambulance sirens sound in the background, echoing the structure of Bocaccio’s The Decameron.

Star-studded list of writers include: Charlie Jane Anders, Margaret Atwood, Jennine Capó Crucet, Joseph Cassara, Angie Cruz, Pat Cummings, Sylvia Day, Emma Donoghue, Dave Eggers, Diana Gabaldon, Tess Gerritsen, John Grisham, Maria Hinojosa, Mira Jacob, Erica Jong, CJ Lyons, Celeste Ng, Tommy Orange, Mary Pope Osborne, Douglas Preston, Alice Randall, Ishmael Reed, Roxana Robinson, Nelly Rosario, James Shapiro, Hampton Sides, R.L. Stine, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Monique Truong, Scott Turow, Luis Alberto Urrea, Rachel Vail, Weike Wang, Caroline Randall Williams, De’Shawn Charles Winslow, and Meg Wolitzer.

The New York Times Book Review (2022)

Reviewed three debut novels for the NYTBR.

The Queer Bible

(2021)

A group of queer icons where asked to contribute essays about their queer heroes.

Included: an essay about Pedro Almodóvar.

Boston Review

(2019)

A short story about a gay couple from San Francisco navigating a difficult time in their relationship and decide to vacation in Palm Springs.