Empire Grade

Nominated for a Pushcart Prize in fiction in 2021 and 2016

I wrote the feature film, Murder in Fashion, about the shooting of designer Gianni Versace by serial killer Andrew Cunanan. The film played at theatres and festivals and was reviewed in the NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/movies/22murder.html?_r=0

My short story, published in Cornell University's literary magazine, Epoch, is currently under option to Sony and Road Less Traveled Productions.

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Nominated for a Pushcart Prize in fiction in 2021 and 2016

I wrote the feature film, Murder in Fashion, about the shooting of designer Gianni Versace by serial killer Andrew Cunanan. The film played at theatres and festivals and was reviewed in the NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/movies/22murder.html?_r=0

My short story, published in Cornell University's literary magazine, Epoch, is currently under option to Sony and Road Less Traveled Productions.

I collaborated with producer Don Murphy (Transformers, Natural Born Killers) on the script "Fast Fade" about the life of film noir actress Barbra Payton, bsed on film historian John O'Dowd's biography, "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye: The Barbara Payton Story." I was a quarterfinalist in the 2019 Los Angeles International Screenplay competition (top 10% of 2000+ entries). I won 2nd Place in the American Gem competition and first prize in The Writers Place Competition; finalist in the Eric Hoffer fiction competition (over 2000 entries). My script, "The Dressmaker's Daughter" was a Top Ten Finalist in the Bruce Geller Screenplay Competition at American Jewish University.

My dystopian novel, Twisted Fate, sold to Champagne Book Group for publication in December 2021.

My Young Adult novel, The Dressmaker’s Daughter, sold to Santa Monica Press for publication in 2022.

My suspense thriller novella, The Remnant, was published in June 2020 by BTGN Press. My collection of short stories, All I Can Take of You was published by Adelaide Press in August 2020

I graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in English. My fiction and non-fiction appear in McSweeney’s, All the Sins, Close to the Bone, Gawker, The Guardian, Cimarron Review, Moxy, BioStories, Shark Reef, Literary Heist, Parhelion, Crack the Spine, Writing Disorder, The Piltdown Review, The Lowestoft Chronicle, Eclectica, Glossy News Satire, Thoughtful Dog, The Satirist, Fleas on the Dog, Hollywood Dementia, Sundress, In Posse Review, Adelaide Magazine, Word Riot, Ducts Magazine, Blunderbuss Magazine, Storyglossia, The Furious Gazelle, The Pedestal Magazine, Eyeshot, JONAH Magazine, The Boiler, In Posse Review, Bound Off (podcast), Pulse, Fiction Attic Press Anthology, Black Denim Lit, Stirring, Drunk Monkeys, Fictive Dream, Lifelines (the literary journal of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth), the Chiron Review, The Linnets Wings, and Adventures in Ideas.

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