When your friends are poets, writers, visual artists, dancers, and musicians, and support each other through readings, performances, panel presentations, book launches, workshop, a kayak, a hike, a brunch, an afternoon at the beach, sunflower picking, or the occasional wedding.
When Husband sneaks a picture of you reading, Northridge
Letting loose post-Scriptorium reading with Jen Palmares Meadows and Simone Youngblood, Sacramento
Supporting GAB sis, Genice Grace, at her solo show, Napa
Sniff-kisses for my storytelling soul sister and Matron of Honor, Amy Christensen, Half Moon Bay
The storybook to end all storybooks
With Trinidad Escobar at her final MFA Comics reading, San Francisco
DISQUIET poets and writers hanging out with Fernando Pessoa, his head of course buried in a book, Lisbon, Portugal
Fun times with these writer-sisters, SFMOMA
When Eliza Gano, writer and photographer, is also your BFF and Maid of Honor, Half Moon Bay
With the inspiring Denise Duhamel, Belém, Portugal
LitCrawl 2015 with James Bautista, Barbara Jane Reyes, Jen Palmares Meadows, Von Torres, and Janice Lobo Sapigao, San Francisco
Artist family dinner with Matt Leibel, Jan Neufeld, and Stephanie Kreuz, San Francisco
With visual artist caren ang-oayp, Bacolod
DISQUIET by the river with these fine poets, Lisbon, 2017
And then this lovely poet sis, Maryan Nagy Captan, briefly popped into town, Oakland
Babaylan reading with Barbara Jane Reyes, Veronica Montes, Eileen Tabios, Jean Vengua, Rose Booker, and Arlene Biala, San Francisco
When you officiated your best friend’s wedding, reading poetry, and not at all trying to hold in the giggles during something funny, Napa
Hanging with artist Jean Vengua, Monterey
Kayaking break with artist Stephanie Kreuz, Lake Chabot, Oakland
Prose and poetry (mixed genre) with Jenny Zhang, Tbilisi, Georgia
Supporting Jen Palmares Meadows at Scriptorium, Sacramento
Spontaneous slumber party without the slumber with Artist, Albularya, and Katuuran Lyn Pacificar, East Hollywood
Happy times with these very fine poets, Karen Hildebrand and Edite Cunha, Belém, Portugal
All smiles with Michelle Wilker, Belém, Portugal
Epic day with this multi-talented immortal beauty Fides Enriquez, posing in front of her barn where the magic happens, Napa
When multimedia artist Indira Allegra decides to take a selfie with you at your wedding, Half Moon Bay
Summer Literary Seminars, Open Mic, Writers’ House/მწერალთა სახლი, Tbilisi, Georgia
TallGrass reading for Loon Magic anthology, Chicago
Writing break in the sunflower fields with Karin Spirn, Half Moon Bay
Farah Ali and I with our book babies at Farah’s book launch, Green Apple Books, San Francisco
Poetry Workshop with Ariana Reines, Tbilisi, Georgia
Supporting the amazing Juanita E. Mantz at her book launch for “Portrait of a Deputy Public Defender (or, how I became a punk rock lawyer),” Riverside
Boba date with fellow creator Irine of Ubebe Beads, San Diego
Sunshiny times with long-distance bud—creative activist and organizer, Ian Madrigal, Oakland
2021 Summer Solstice, end of lockdown, celebration hosted by Fides Enriquez with powerhouses Caroline Cabading and Evelyn Rodriguez, Napa
Supporting my Mills BFF Adrienne Oliver as the Featured Poet at the Ugly Beauty Poetry Salon, Berkeley, 2020
Meeting the goddess, Jeanette Winterson, LitQuake SF 2019
L’aiolina Book Club discussion of WANLB during FAHM 2021
Slicing Tomatoes 