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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

With Trinidad Escobar at her final MFA Comics reading, San Francisco

The storybook to end all storybooks

Sniff-kisses for my storytelling soul sister and Matron of Honor, Amy Christensen, Half Moon Bay

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 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

When you officiated your best friend’s wedding, reading poetry, and not at all trying to hold in the giggles during something funny, Napa

With the inspiring Denise Duhamel, Belém, Portugal

Hanging with artist Jean Vengua, Monterey

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

Writing break in the sunflower fields with Karin Spirn, Half Moon Bay

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

Farah Ali and I with our book babies at Farah’s book launch, Green Apple Books, San Francisco

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