My work includes fiction, but my focus and passion is short form narrative non-fiction. The art of the essay. The beauty of truth. The creative eye of the storm. When I am not writing, editing or spell-checking, I am reading, taking long walks or listening to opera or the blues.

Fiction

• Screaming, Stomping ... short stories for women on the edge

• Wrecks .. a novel

• Starlight Studio Inn ... a novel

• Storytelling

  • Caught on the Wind - KPCC #Unheard LA ... 2019

• Plays

  • Because I ... a ten page play

  • Face Time ... a ten page play

  • Dottie, Dottie ... a one act play

  • Blinds ... a one act play

  • Wacky ... one woman show

• Screenplays

  • Aretha to You

  • Lotus Boots

  • Wrecks

Non Fiction

• A Nonprofit Got Him Off the Street and Into an Apartment—
  Here’s Why He Walked Away - Los Angeles Magazine 2018
  https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/homelessness-housing-skid-row/

• Drowning as Fast as I Can ... a memoir

• RED DELICIOUS ... essay published by Zaum 2009

• A Breakdown Next Door ... Los Angeles Times Op Ed 2009
  https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-aug-24-oe-shimizu24-story.html

• Foreigner at the Funeral ... published by Colere 2008

• Fathers, Daughters, Love, War: ... blended essay published by Quiet Mountain Essays 2008

• Guns Kill ... published 2007

• Fearless Motherhood ... published by International Museum of Women 2007

• Loves Labour ... published by UCLA LA Language World 2007