"I have continued to explore the usefulness of various poetic forms as a mechanism for providing access to suppressed internal voices."
"Although I never planned it, I wrote a series of novels, Celestial Bodies, that have pierced my heart in a way nothing else ever has, changing me as a writer and as a person."
Eternal Glow: Black Womanhood’s Story Of Love and Resilience Author’s Memo These three poems are autoethnographic as they utilize personal...
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All ContentAutoethnographic Flash NonfictionAutoethnographic Literary FictionVolume 3, Issue 4 (2023)
··19 min readThis short story about a night in a shed is an attempt to encourage any reader to think about the stories that circulate within communities.
"When I review evocative autoethnography I look for that layer in the contribution that will entertain and connect to a cultural issue."
This is a piece I wrote in desperation after being confronted with the failures of the foster system in the United States today.
"A tree once taught me that those moments of ruin are only a pause, a passage really, on the way to something else."
In this essay, the current reality of queerness is juxtaposed against milestones in my own life as a queer man in America.
This lighthearted essay illustrates an experience I had in Singapore while doing research for a book I was writing about spirituality.
Book Review: Revealing the Mantra of Trauma Author’s Memo This review of The Trauma Mantras seeks to convey the profound...
This essay and video introduce an autoethnographic study of my life as a deaf child in Finland learning sign language.
"This is an autoethnographic narrative where I use my own marriage to tell a story about love, bodily autonomy, acceptance and illness."
