Book

Hate Mail: Thank You For Reading (Vine Leaves Press, 2022)

Hate Mail is a collection of conceptual poetry that transforms the hundreds of hateful, threatening and often enlightening emails I received from readers while working at a major news site into poems.

San Francisco Chronicle: Former S.F. reporter discovers the poetry in readers’ oddly entertaining hate mail

ABC7: Turning hate mail into works of art

San Francisco Standard: How Turning Hate Mail into a Book of Poems Liberated One Reporter

SELECT CLIPS

Couple tie the knot with whimsical BART-themed wedding at Fairyland (bart.gov)

BART Connects: BART is a local teen photographer's muse (bart.gov)

The trickster goes to hell (Hi Fructose, print-only)

Hybrid Creatures (Hi Fructose, print-only)

Book Review: San Francisco is forever dying (SFGATE)

San Francisco woman helps more than 2,000 people get vaccinated (SFGATE)

The man who believes in Bigfoot (SFGATE)

San Francisco’s Litquake promises written word, weird and worldly (San Francisco Chronicle)

#Vanlife 2.0: Bay Area residents who live in vans not to travel, but to contend with housing costs (SFGATE)

A visit to San Francisco’s lightsaber academy (SFGATE)

A new breed of ski bum: Working for Silicon Valley, living in Tahoe (SFGATE)

Marin County man snags would-be killers on fake hitman-for-hire site (SFGATE)

Photos of Silicon Valley suburbia, from 20 years ago to now (SFGATE)

Photographs explore the debauchery and danger inside a UC Berkeley fraternity (SFGATE)

Dog “influencers” are making hundreds of dollars per post. We talked to them. (SFGATE)

$1,790 a month and 'no cooking' allowed: Welcome to renting in the Bay Area (SFGATE)

I'm SFGATE's 'Bay Area exodus' reporter. Now I'm leaving myself. (SFGATE)

Some California landlords are raising their tenants' rents in case Prop. 10 passes (SFGATE)

On Comedy Day, Robin Williams lives on in meadow that now bears his name (San Francisco Chronicle)

Are You Ready for a Wildfire? (Via)

Horse Mounted Patrol keeps parks safe (Golden Gate National Recreation Area)

An Oakland artist drew 1,001 portraits of black men (SFGATE)

I rode around San Francisco with a pool noodle attached to my bike (SFGATE)

'It happened so fast': What it's like being 'doored' while cycling in San Francisco (SFGATE)

Cheap old houses and the stories they tell (SFGATE)

Mysterious Hawaiian snorkeling deaths may have one thing in common, but investigators thwarted (SFGATE)

A poaching conspiracy is playing out on Northern California's coastline (SFGATE)

Amid rent increase, San Francisco's only fortune cookie factory faces uncertain future (SFGATE)

Twice as many men as women regularly commute by bicycle in San Francisco. Why is that? (SFGATE)

AWARDS

First Place, Blog/Opinion, San Francisco Press Club Awards, 2022, “San Francisco has a major image problem”

Notable mention, The Best American Science and Nature Writing (Houghton-Mifflin), Recovery Season (Orion)

SELECT TV APPEARANCES

San Francisco newspaper exodus reporter reports on her own departure from the area (Fox Business News)

Why people are leaving the Bay Area (KTVU)

Radio: Sirius XM, KCBS, CBS Los Angeles