Which is stranger, fact or fiction? Which is truer?
In the same way a super-realist or hyper-realist painter uses the photographic to create a more intense and sometimes more emotional rendering, I use real lives.
In Memory of Fire Eduardo Galleaño “proposes to narrate the history of America…[in] a vast mosaic.” He composes with clips from the accounts of explorers and their slaves, from religious accounts and newspaper clippings, all in a swirl of chronology.
I use the geographic lens of Raventon, a small and mythical town, to reconsider the rational. I seek to write a calculus of what is around me: the world we sniff at, the world at our fingertips and the tips of our tongues, what we see with/in our double takes.
Because one can see the world in a drop of dew, as per Andrew Marvell.
And human, sometimes more than human, we are bound together, despite ourselves.
Run Plant Fly
A novel about the first virtual reality theme park as it forever alters the fabric of a small mountain town in the Pacific Northwest. Also available, an audio CD that tells this story in a different way. (Pika Press, 2003) More info…
And I have two novels in search of publication:
Isotopia/k’aáw
is a literary novel about what it means to be a modern woman and our sense of place as it follows a woman scientist, Leona Wilds, as she works on the Manhattan Project…
More info…
Tahoma
It is 1973, and big changes are coming to Tahoma, a sleepy farm town on the slopes of majestic Mt. Rainier. Real estate and rootedness collide. More info…