I’m third gender, bi/pansexual, and neuro-divergent. I have Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) and am hard of hearing, and my goal as a novelist and poet is to advocate for the rights of people with DID, the LGBTQIA+ community, and the d/Deaf community. My upcoming novels include Facing the Curse, The Summoning, Conjure Hill, and The Truth of a Kaleidoscope Mind. All my novels involve my advocating for one or more of the groups I’m a member of.
Unique to my life is the fact my significant other, Keith, also has DID. We are two people with DID whose “self-states” or “parts” all fell in love with each other. Our pet phrase we say to each other is, “All of me loves all of you.” This is our bond and our promise to each other. We support each other in coping with both our DID and the inevitable Complex PTSD that caused it. Both of us are also third gender, so we support each other concerning issues of gender identity as well.
As a novelist, I write paranormal horror, fantasy, and sci-fi/fantasy. Quite frankly, if I can’t put both magic and romance into my novels, then I won’t write them. But what pours out of me along with the magic is a deep psychological exploration of surviving trauma and facing the effects of trauma. The characters in my novels inevitably work through aspects of their trauma as they deal with the antagonistic forces in the story. Despite the extreme level of trauma I have faced in my life, I am determined to heal and live a better life, and my conviction carries over into my plots. Likewise, my characters are all LGBTQIA+. I represent a wide variety, including gay, lesbian, trans, intersex, and third gender characters. This means all the romantic relationships in my novels are gay. My first three novels will be sold as romance/paranormal horror. My fourth novel is more likely to be sold as paranormal horror with a romantic subplot. The fantasy and sci-fi/fantasy novels are still in the pipeline, along with my book-length poetry manuscript.
I have published poetry, short stories, and scholarly articles for years now, but I’m omitting that information from this biography because it’s under my dead name. Yes, that means I’m a third gendered transman, but no, I regret nothing. I have known all my life that I would feel more comfortable in a man’s body. It’s simply that I’ve realized, now that I’m in my late forties, that I have no use for the social construct of gender itself. I consider it unnecessary baggage.
In addition to being a professional writer, I am also an English professor, have my PhD, and have been teaching English at the college level for nearly 25 years now. I’ve taught a wide range of classes, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
In my free time, what little of it I have, I enjoy hiking, off-road biking, and swimming at the lake in the summers. Hiking a new trail is probably my greatest joy. I also occasionally make time to engage in drawing, painting, and pyrography (wood-burning, specifically).
Keith and I are minor comic book nerds, which means we’ve spent over twenty years watching comic book movies, and we’re both D&D geeks, too. We actually met because of D&D and engaged in D&D online roleplaying together. In fact, it was the intersection of D&D and the release of The Lord of the Rings movies that caused me to begin writing fantasy back in 2001, although I had been writing paranormal fiction before then.
As a final note, I’m very much a cat person, and I’ve been rescuing strays all my adult life. I usually have two cats at a time, but one recently passed away at the age of seventeen. I’m sure another cat in crisis will show up soon, and then I’ll have two cats once again.
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