Cover artist for the inaugural issue of UC Riverside's cratelit literary magazine (July 2011). Additional photographs featured inside.

I've had two solo exhibitions at this interdisciplinary arts center, including Alex, Amen, reviewed by the L.A. Weekly.

I founded and collaborated on this youth photography project with fellow artists Brian Moss and Pato Hebert.

Excerpts from my work-in-progress, a photographic memoir centered on the loss of my 19-year-old brother, have been published:
• As an essay titled "Early Harvest," winning entry in a competition co-sponsored by New York-based Obit magazine, Killing the Buddha, and the Rubin Museum of Art. Listen to a recording of my essay presented at the Rubin Museum in New York, in the highlights podcast starting at the 10-minute mark.
• In Strange Cargo, an Emerging Voices Anthology, 1997–2010, with an introduction by Janet Fitch. Distributed by Skylight Books in Los Angeles: Buy Strange Cargo.
• As an unpublished essay that accompanied this 2004 exhibition of my photographs.

Our culminating reading was hosted by the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles in July 2009. I'm grateful to PEN and the Rosenthal Family Foundation for the award, and to my teachers and mentors through the PEN program, including Ellen Slezak, Erika Shickel, Amy Friedman, and Samantha Dunn.

My blog for the Huffington Post covers politics, culture, faith, health, and education. Go to my HuffPo archive.

I'm an ongoing contributor of original, reported journalism to:
• Flaunt. I was featured in the 10th anniversary edition (issue #100) among Ten Notable Writers of the Decade, with a creative nonfiction piece on Lesbos Island. As a contributing writer to the magazine I also cover contemporary artists and designers, and my subjects have included Rosemarie Fiore (#89), Vaughan Rachel (#93), Danny Glicker and Audrey Fisher (#103), and Susan Simpson (#106).
• Exposure: Journal of the Society for Photographic Education. For my column "Catching Up With..." I have interviewed legendary photographers Bruce Davidson, Duane Michals and Jerome Liebling, the renowned photography historian Naomi Rosenblum, and the multi-media artist and educator Joan Lyons.
• See Story U for additional writing commissioned by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The California Endowment, California State University, Northridge, the Skirball Cultural Center, and the California Institute of Integral Studies, among others.

Eight of us—poets, fiction and nonfiction writers—formed this group in 2009 and give occasional public readings. (MMIX is pronounced "mix.")