Videos & Radio
I love telling stories for organizations like The Moth and Fisher Poets. Check out these recent stories below. When my book "The Whole Fish" launched, I demonstrated fish "bacon" and fish salt for Chow.com. When "A Little Piece of Earth" was published, I did a series of gardening demonstration for Chow.com. And the super fabulous film studio, Sol Gate Studios made my book trailer for "Tango Me Home." I've also included a radio interview with New Letters on the Air. I was so honored to be interviewed by them as they feature so many authors I deeply admire. Also, I was an intern at New Letters Literary Magazine, and that's where I learned about contemporary literature.
Truffle Lust Solo Performance at Stage Werx Theater
The first time I smelled a truffle, the subterranean fungi, reached inside me and made me want it more than anything in the world. I inhaled notes of violets and strawberries, toasted walnuts and aged cheese, earth after a rain, an intimate crevice of someone I once loved. The aroma traveled through my body, lighting up pleasure centers that I hadn’t known existed inside me. They are a metaphor for desire – heady but fleeting.
So when I adopted a puppy, it was one with truffle hunting in its DNA, and it had to be a female – because they make the best truffle dogs. This led me to my dog, Florence Jayne Tartufa, aka, Flora Jayne.
This story is about hunting for truffles, my dog's pregnancy scare, and my grandmother's shame taught me about desire.
Watch it Here!
The first time I smelled a truffle, the subterranean fungi, reached inside me and made me want it more than anything in the world. I inhaled notes of violets and strawberries, toasted walnuts and aged cheese, earth after a rain, an intimate crevice of someone I once loved. The aroma traveled through my body, lighting up pleasure centers that I hadn’t known existed inside me. They are a metaphor for desire – heady but fleeting.
So when I adopted a puppy, it was one with truffle hunting in its DNA, and it had to be a female – because they make the best truffle dogs. This led me to my dog, Florence Jayne Tartufa, aka, Flora Jayne.
This story is about hunting for truffles, my dog's pregnancy scare, and my grandmother's shame taught me about desire.
Watch it Here!
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Living with Toxoplasmosis, the Cat Lady Disease. Told at The Moth Story Slam at the Freight and Salvage in Berkeley.
My winning story at the Moth Slam in Berkeley for the them "Competition".
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Becoming a killer. My story at the Moth Grand Slam at the Castro Theater in SF for "Off the Rails" theme.
Photo by Kara Brodgesell for The Moth
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An interview with New Letters on the Air about Hold Me Tight & Tango Me Home
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