Current Projects

Aaron Metals, speeches to, and correspondence with, the Oakland Planning Commission 

Providing editorial consulting to Oakland scrap dealer as it defends against the city’s attempt to zone the company out of business.

Josie Kennedy, untitled autobiography

She endured decades of torment one could easily mistake for a gut-chilling thriller; her childhood and coming of age a series of violated taboos, humiliations and betrayed trust. Emerging from a years-long convalescence in a pharmaceutical fog, Josie Kennedy writes lyrically about the images and experiences that sifted her life.

Melinda Mimm, untitled autobiography

The second youngest of nine children growing up wild in the wilds of New Mexico, Melinda Mimm’s story is a rhapsody of pastoral pursuits, adolescent daring, and domestic upheavals; an often wanton coming of age tale that exposes the needy and wounded qualities of male desire.