After releasing 3 albums and performing in the alternative scenes in New York City, where I am from, as well as in Los Angeles, where I relocated in 2021, I have shifted my focus back to my first love of writing, for which I originally received my fiction degree from Eugene Lang College of the New School University 20 years ago.

I have begun passionately with a collection of essays on my Substack titled 'Moody & Gay' - which I plan to turn into a full-length collection about being a queer, bipolar artist.

So far, my favorite memoirist is Melissa Febos, who I find not just virtuosic but compelling, brave, and revelatory in her work.  I aim to grow into such writing myself.

But I grew up reading fiction that also blurred the lines of memoir and perhaps would've been considered such if the genre had been more expansively considered then and I loved Edmund White's work.  

He perfectly combined high class, extremely personal literature with graphic sexual scenes in a matter of fact, and vulnerable way that no other queer author of his time was doing.  Not only was it all great art, but he helped a generation of men not just with his work but his activism.  He recently passed away at 85 after working well until the end and I'm grateful to have shared a meal with him a decade ago to let him know just how much he meant to me.

In the short time I've written memoir, it has helped reveal parts of myself to me that I have hidden and if I can learn to craft what I expose in a way that helps someone like these authors have helped me - I will be an extremely grateful author.