About My Work
I’m a queer autistic scholar and educator, and an author of speculative fiction and nonfiction.
I teach psychology at California Institute of Integral Studies, and aikido at the Aikido Shusekai dojo in Berkeley, California.
I’m Managing Editor of the worker-owned indie publishing house Autonomous Press, and co-creator of the Weird Luck webcomic.
Some of my shorter writings can be found in the Articles section of this site. The page devoted to my Academic Work includes downloadable copies of a couple of academic journal articles and my doctoral dissertation on autistic participation in transformative somatic practices.
Below are a few books in which my fiction and nonfiction work can be found.
Spoon Knife 5: Liminal
I was co-editor of this fifth volume of the annual Spoon Knife neuroqueer lit anthology. Includes a foreword by me, and my dark short sci-fi story “Something Nice,” plus tales by Cody Goodfellow, Scott Nicolay, Margaret Killjoy, Craig Laurance Gidney, and more.
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Diverse Bodies, Diverse Practices:
Toward an Inclusive Somatics
A groundbreaking anthology of writings by members of various marginalized communities who work in the field of somatic psychology. Includes a chapter by me entitled “Somatics and Autistic Embodiment.”
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Spoon Knife 3: Incursions
I was lead editor on this volume of the annual Spoon Knife multi-genre neuroqueer lit anthology. Includes a foreword by me, and my short story “Waiting for the Zeppelins,” plus stories by Judy Grahn, Ada Hoffmann, Steve Silberman, and more.
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Spoon Knife 2: Test Chamber
The second volume of the annual Spoon Knife neuroqueer lit anthology includes my 15,000-word sci-fi novellette “Bianca and the Wu-Hernandez.” Like all my fiction, this piece is part of the Weird Luck Saga, an ever-growing collection of interconnected stories by me and Andrew M. Reichart.
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The Spoon Knife Anthology: Thoughts on
Compliance, Defiance, and Resistance
The first volume of the annual Spoon Knife multi-genre neuroqueeer literary anthology includes my memoir “Kelly’s Blackbird,” about a formative incident from my early teen years.
Read the beginning of “Kelly’s Blackbird.”
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