Writing

ESSAYS & ARTICLES

Nurses & Lowriders
Interview w/ Susan Straight, author of Sacrament
Alta Journal | 2025

Joy Rides
SkateMD Feature (print+online)
Sactown Magazine | 2025

Battle of the Grand Olympic Auditorium
Pushcart Prize nominated (prose)
Huizache Magazine | 2025

There There by Tommy Orange
25 Books that Define California (print+online)
Alta Journal | 2025

Music for Future Video Part Soundtracks
Simple Magic newsletter | 2025

Urgent Journeys, Broken Maps
California Book Club Review: The Consequences by Manuel Muñoz
Alta Journal | 2025

Sick Boy (excerpt from Chipped)
Alta Journal | 2024

No Lurk Limit (excerpt from Chipped)
CalMatters | 2024

Tiago Lemos Skates to The Supremes
Simple Magic newsletter | 2024

Seeing the Meaning
Book Review: The Collected Poems of Mary Ellen Solt
Zyzzyva | 2024

The Secret History
Book Review: Jonathan Blitzer’s Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
Alta Journal | 2024

Seeing San Francisco Through a Skateboarder’s Eyes
KQED | 2023

A Pivot to Inclusion
inaugural Slow Impact AZ skateboarding conference profile
(print+online)
Alta Journal | Summer Issue 2023

Pizza Supreme Being
KQED Food | 2023

California floods, bank collapse expose infrastructure woes and whose safety we value
CalMatters | 2023

Legalize Lowriders
Boom California | 2023

Half Moon Bay shooting & California’s historic resistance to humanely housing farmworkers
CalMatters | 2023

See You At the Crossroads: Stay True by Hua Hsu
Alta Journal | 2022

Whose Streets?
The Yale Review | 2022

Filling Historical Gaps
Alta Journal | 2022

Skating the West LA Courthouse
Alta Journal | 2022

A Foothold in Fresno
The Atlantic | 2021

Inter State
Stranger’s Guide| 2021

14th & Jackson
The Paris Review| 2021

Being Old; Wearing Huf
Free Skate Magazine | 2021

Storyteller – An Interview with Norma Ibarra
Quartersnacks | 2021

The un-Roundtable
Triangle House Review | 2021

Open Every Cell
Free Skate Magazine | 2020

Samuel L. Jackson as Mister Señor Love Daddy in Do the Right Thing 
Goodnight, Sweet Prince | 2017

Gem From a Broken Rock: Remembering Isaiah ‘Ikey’ Owens  
Los Angeles Review of Books | 2016

What Happens After a Collapse 
Colorlines | 2014

Tony Hawk Interview 
Adobe Blog | 2017

Wolfman Books Profile 
Amadeus Magazine | 2018

Suavecito Souldies Profile 
Amadeus Magazine | 2018

Bay Area DJs Team Up for Soul-Packed Party Break it Loose! 
East Bay Express | 2018

Oakhella Turns Two 
East Bay Express | 2018

McSweeney’s Letter, Issue #51 | 2017

Why Life is Living Is More Relevant Than Ever 
 East Bay Express | 2017

Nappy Nina: From Oakland Mainstay to Brooklyn Breakout 
Amadeus Magazine | 2017

POETRY

Ceilings
KALW – Bay Poets (w/ audio) | 2024

Ceiling Stare
Poetry London (print) & Verse Daily (online) | 2023

Three Poems 
Small Press Traffic | 2020

Landlock 
Open Space (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) 
Issue 14 – Tardigrade (curated by Ryanaustin Dennis) | six-part poem & photos | 2020

Ghostrise 
WILDNESS | 2017

Point and Shoot 
Sundog Lit | 2017 (Best of the Net Nominee)

Rodney King Isn’t Candyman 
Bodega Mag | 2016

Tide Will Die 
Berkeley Poetry Review #46 | 2016 

11th @ Market 6:54am PST Southbound & …Unless the Alley’s Named After Dead White Writers 
The Capilano Review (Canada, print) | 2017

A Scab Briefly Unconscious on 14th & Broadway & 1073 Natoma 
Prelude Mag | 2017

Saturn Returned a Racist 2016 & In The Absence of Color is a Void That Won’t Sit Next to Me on the Train 
sPARKLE + bLINK #79 // Quiet Lightning | 2016