is the author of sixteen novels, including, most recently, What the Moon Did (Flexible Press). Her short story collection, Trick of the Porch Light, is forthcoming in 2023. She has published two poetry collections, When We Almost Drowned (2019) and Grim Honey (2021). She taught at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, California, and continues to teach for UCLA Extension and in the online MFA program for Southern New Hampshire University. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband.