Hi!
I was born in Illinois, raised in rural Texas and the San Fernando Valley, and now live near ‘Ogap’oge, a.k.a. Santa Fe, New Mexico.
I’ve almost died three times and have enjoyed carbohydrates in nine time zones.
My latest project: Blood’s Hiding.
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I’ve written the novels Blood’s Hiding, A Task, The Country, The City, Solip, and Say, Cut, Map as well as the nonfiction books EarthBound, Eat the Flowers, and What Now? A Sick Person’s Guide to Surviving the United States of America. I publish standalone essays here.
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I make videos about Magic: The Gathering as Stacked EDH, publish the website cedh.guide, and design popular decks. After a strange weekend in Copenhagen, I became the 2022 cEDH World Champion.
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After creating the position, I work as the Academic Support Coordinator on the Santa Fe campus of St. John’s College.
Each year I help hundreds of students study well and feel appreciated at the most rigorous liberal arts college in the United States.
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I worked in film and television for twelve years, starring in the TV series The Secret Life of the American Teenager and otherwise pretending and lying for fun and profit.
After being diagnosed with severe Crohn’s disease, I retired from acting in 2013.
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For ten years, I ran the nonprofit publishing company Sator Press. The press released fourteen works of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction as well as an award-winning tabletop roleplaying game book. I then donated Sator’s catalogue to Two Dollar Radio, and established a publishing prize for trans and non-binary writers.
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I was a founding member of New Mexico’s first chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America. I also participated in direct action and legislative campaigns for economic, healthcare, and immigration reform with local organizations like Chainbreaker, Earth Care, Retake Our Democracy, and the Health Security for New Mexicans Campaign.
The political philosophy I try to practice is anarchism.