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Birth City
Detroit
Birth State
MI
Current Location
Colorado Springs, CO
Email (Public)
Author's Website
Occupation(s)
Former librarian and teacher - Cherokee Two-Spirit Shaman
Biography
I was still living as a man when I moved to in the year 2000. Having been outed as transgender, and fired at the Prep-School where I had been working, I was recruited at the National Librarians' Conference to be the Coordinator of Information and Technology at Mitchell High School, where I was again outed and fired. In 2007, after being outed and fired at CollegeAmerica, I transitioned to living full time as a woman. My storytelling-performances in The Story Project in Colorado Springs and for The Secret Society of Twisted Storytellers are viewable on YouTube. I also sing karaoke and do an occasional standup open-mike.
Awards/Honors
First Place - Bowling This Month, Amateur Bowling Writers Contest
First Place - Best Creative Non-Fiction 2013, Loyola Maryland University Literary EZine
Education/Training
Master's Degree in Library Science - Bachelor's Degree in English, Wayne State University, Michigan
Local Authors Genres
Published Works
Dragonfly and the Pack of Three (America Star Books, 2013)
Slow on the Clicker (PublishAmerica, 2009)
The Bride's Room (published in The Chaffey Review)
Numerous professional publications as a librarian and 40+ articles in the CS In…
Mantras for Bowling (published in Bowling This Month)
Published Works Book Jackets
Interviews
Speaker Availability
Yes
Speaker Topics
Storytelling - Transgender - Theory of Mind - Education