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To purchase my chapbook Smoke Show, illustrated by Clara James, click here.
To purchase Present Magazine Issue 3, including my feature article, Tiempo de Zafra, click here.
Language, like religion, can do tremendous violence to the imminent world by forcing objects of that world to be understood in terms of generalities. It can also do tremendous good. Writing, to me, is more about moving through obstacles and establishing a trajectory inward, moving by way of intensities into more and more revealing territory. In the act of writing and editing, one is incinerating layers of crap rather than tossing more onto the landfill.
To bore holes in language, to see what lurks behind it, gives us the power to be something or nothing just by looking deeply. My work is not about less; it's about everything that has already been left behind that can be rediscovered and reimagined.
My approach to working in the theater involves a deep consideration of human bodies and their emotional/intellectual output as the central material for live performance. This has been fortified as I’ve further developed expertise in arts and medicine. Liveness has unprecedented value in an era where human connection is increasingly diluted and absent. I hope to channel my curiosity and love of storytelling equally towards all the work I am involved in, no matter the medium or my position.