August 18th, 2025 It’s getting real. Maple Island, my 14th book, will be officially released this November. I’ve spent nearly all of my sobriety in labor with a story about a society of vampires and I’m finally ready for you to experience this baby. I’m going to be doing things a little differently this time;Continue reading “Mark Your Calendars!”
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Weirdos Art Show!
May 10th, 2025 All my love to everyone who came to the Weirdos Art Show today. I had a lovely time. As an artist, I’ve always asked myself: could I fill a room? I was pleasantly surprised by the answers I found. I appreciate the shared coffee, baked goods and excellent conversation, and if weContinue reading “Weirdos Art Show!”
Confidence & Perspective
May 7th, 2025 Howdy, y’all. I have an art gallery this weekend at Mind’s Eye Comics in the Burnsville Center that you should totally check out; you should also check out this video where I talk about confidence (and the lack of it), perspective as we grow, and how my gallery is a fight againstContinue reading “Confidence & Perspective”
We Trained For This: Clarifying My Disappointment
April 19th, 2025 My book Theia is a proud part of a long lineage of literature that uses animals to speak truth about ourselves. Two of its biggest influences are two of my favorite books: Watership Down and Animal Farm. Due to the current state of our nation, I recently bought myself a new copyContinue reading “We Trained For This: Clarifying My Disappointment”
Guthrie Trip
April 5th, 2025 I am forever a theater nerd. When I went back to school last fall, my past in theater emboldened me to seek out similar groups for my educational stay. When I joined the Creative Arts & Writing Club (and subsequently became its president five minutes later), we started talking events, and aContinue reading “Guthrie Trip”
FANBOY
March 22, 2025 Over the past few years, I’ve really gotten into soccer; a few TV shows like Ted Lasso, Welcome to Wrexham and Onside: MLS helped me see the beauty of the game through narrative, and I’ve been adoring the Minnesota United and their loyal community, mostly from afar. I saw a few LoonsContinue reading “FANBOY”
Hot Bloods Announcement
March 10th, 2025 Announcing: Hot Bloods, a brand new short story. When I wrote my novel Cold World, I compared it to building a house: on its own, it’s a complete story, saying everything that I wanted to say at the time. But I also left some room. In the construction of the book, IContinue reading “Hot Bloods Announcement”
Live From New York
February 16th, 2025 I’m an SNL fanatic. It has almost never been a popular thing to be or to say out loud. Even as the nerds had their revenge and became a force in popular culture, SNL has always been a target for haters, of which there are many. But I have always been aContinue reading “Live From New York”
Smarg Review
December 30th, 2024 I was so excited to finally get the first issue of Smarg delivered to my door! This book is both the debut of pals Paul Hallgren and Jesse Switters as a creative team and Snow Day Press, the new local comic imprint. Smarg himself is the alter ego of Swerven Niv-Bakcen, anContinue reading “Smarg Review”
Best of 2024
December 23rd, 2024 As I remind you every year: lists are so stupid, and oh do I love lists. These aren’t the “best” in the same way we rank athletes or products; these are the things that best captured my imagination, best dominated my conversations, best made me think and feel and moved my soulContinue reading “Best of 2024”
The Den 