I'm a writer and I want to write.

Below is "Sis' Bouki: the Hyena Gifts" in the January/February 2023 issue of the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. It was my second pro poetry sale. The year before, it was "The Crow's Church" in Star*Line.

In 2023, I also sold two more stories, flash and short. Following my essay in Solarpunk Magazine  on solarpunk noir, "The Dark City is a Hot Place to Be," I sold my first solarpunk noir novelette "Ice Like Honey," to a joint project between Darthmouth College's Speculative Fiction Project and Light Speed Magazine. August 6th of this year, my middle grade novel Daydreamer comes out from Labyrinth Road, Random House Kids. 

Up to this point, I've been simultaneously writing, teaching full time in a public school, producing a pro-paying story podcast, and helping to lead Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers, the largest, most active, and coolest speculative fiction writers group in New York F#$@! City.  But now that I'm a full time husband and father of two, the multi-tasking is coming to an end.  It has to. I'm on mission.

So, here I am doing the self-promotion thing, which I kind of hate. But in watching brother Zig-Zag, Milton Davis, Justin Key, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki,  and Maurice Broaddus, I've leaned the lesson. If you don't say it, people don't know. So letting you know: My 2024 goal is to switch it up and write full time. That means, novels, comics, video games, short stories, essays.  If you know of a pro-paying connect, please, let me know. I'm pretty good, and oh, have I got some stories to tell. 

Below, see exhibit 1,001.