Fellowships
& awards:
Fellow,
Saltonstall Foundation Arts Colony, July 2008
Fellow,
First Annual Lambda Literary Foundation LGBT Writers' Retreat, August 2007
Flanked
Women Writers' Conference, August 2006
Writing
Residency, Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, July 2003
Writing
Residency, Norcroft Writing Retreat for Women,
July 2001
Research
Grant from the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Inc., May 2001
Non-fiction:
Co-author with Larry Holmes ofWe Won't Be Slaves: Workfare Workers Organize (1997, IAC: NYC)
Preface & afterword to The Roots of Lesbian & Gay
Oppression: A Marxist View by Bob McCubbin
(3d Edition, 1993, Worldview: NYC)
Bio bits:
I was born in Detroit, grew up in the suburb of Oak
Park. I lived in Ann Arbor, first going to school, then driving bus for the
city. I now live in New York with my lover Teresa Gutierrez, activist,
organizer, speaker, writer, deputy secretary general of the International
Migrant Alliance. I work at New York University and belong to the clerical
workers' union, AFT Local 3882.
I am currently seeking representation for my first
novel, Vera's Will. I'm at work
on a second novel and a collection of short fiction.