Queer Author

My personal joy is to write fiction and therapeutic nonfiction with heartfelt queer representation. I am actively seeking literary agents for my upcoming transpositive sci-fi novel: Dioecy.

In 2020, I published ACT for Gender Identity: The Comprehensive Guide, the go-to-primer for implementing Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with transgender and nonbinary clients.

The following are a selection of LGBTQ+ publications and anthologies I’ve had the honor to be a part of.


Nonbinary Memoirs of Gender and Identity

Edited by Micah Rajunov & Scott Duane, 2019, Columbia University Press

War Smoke Catharsis: A genderqueer true story exploring identity, sexual reassignment surgery, and revolution in Bangkok.

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“In 2006 I sat in the window of the Baan Siri Rama Hotel, watching smoke pour over Bangkok’s jumbled power lines. A coup d’état had overthrown the Prime Minister, leaving him a country-less man far away at the U.N. summit. Leaderless, his party dissolved in favor of their own careers, yet his supporters had taken to motorcycle bombs. Behind me a dear friend lay in bed. I’d been watching her catheter for blood. She was unconscious—oblivious to the tanks outside. Her surgery was entirely irrelevant to the revolution, though it was a revolution of her own.”


Less Than Dead

Edited by Samantha M. Derr, 2016, Less Than Press, LLC

The Eighth Tree: A forbidden love story between two infantrymen in the trenches of WWI, banished to no-mans-land. Trapped on the battlefield, they prepare to die, only to seize their chance at escape when a mysterious nerve gas raises the dead.

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“We were caught—caught between a firing range and a pit of nerve gas, yet to my utter dismay I was smiling. Maybe I’d lost my mind with my shattered sensibility, or maybe I’d found my heart beating desperately so as not to be forgot. In either case, I was glad for a second of touch. For three days I’d felt myself slipping away like a pre-emptive ghost, and now in Daniel’s arms I was alive.”


Myth & Magic: Queer Fairy Tales

Edited by Radclyffe & Stacia Seaman, Bold Strokes Press, 2015

The Red Shoes: A cross-dressing re-telling of Hans Christian Andersen’s lesser-known fable: The Red Shoes. Set in the dusty dry lands of the depression era, a young man finds himself wrangled into the match-making event of the year. Yet when he’s sent to purchase a pair of new shoes, he finds himself enchanted by femme footwear.  Voodoo and dancing abound. 

“In my mirror, I saw myself as my suitors would, and I curtseyed in response to an unvoiced invitation. Alone in my room I waltzed with no one, dancing to a silent song. Wobbling a little to gain my footing, I stepped back and forth, and turned in a circle, tapping heel to toe with a little flourish I felt rather proud of—attempting to mimic the swing-dance girls I’d seen in New Orleans.”


Restraint & Revolution: The Art of Adare

Edited by Alex Stitt, 2015, Create-Space

Untying the lives behind the labels, Adare collects the inspiring and often fantastical bios of their infamous models. A wild, compelling, and captivating read, Adare explores what it means to be a complex cultural, sexual, political,and expressive innovator in the world today. Using corsetry as a symbol of Restraint & Revolution, Adare’s provocative and intimate portraits splash from page to page with vibrant color. Edited and co-authored by Alex Stitt, Restraint & Revolution features direct passages from such LGBTQ and sex positive icons as Carol Queen, Kimberly Dark, and Jiz Lee.

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Wilde Magazine

Published 2014

Gillies’ Boy: A tale of haunting nostalgia told by a trans-man raised in Nazi Berlin. Dictated between cigarettes, Harold recalls his youth as a young girl surviving the propaganda, the gestapo, and the last stand of the Hitlerjugend—when the Allies fought brainwashed boys on Berlin’s final barricade. 

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“He said nothing,” Harold continued, “but he let me explore…und touch. It seems like such a simple thing, such an insignificant little difference, und yet meine world was based on it. I knew then, in great fear, what I wanted though I had no name für it. I wanted to be Bittan’s masculine little Kamerad, but these things würde not be, und it was not long before the war drove us apart.”


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