Classes

Upcoming

Newsletter Crash Course

One Session, Oct 25, 2025; 1:10 pm – 4:10 pm PT | Hugo House | In-Person

A newsletter is much more than just marketing: it’s a home for your voice, a place to build and sustain community over time, and a way to share your work in a way that feels meaningful and creatively alive. Learn more and register

Past classes

High Intensity Fiction Generator

One Session, July 25, 2025; 1:10 pm – 4:10 pm PT | Hugo House | In-Person

Looking to exercise your writerly muscle? Push yourself to the limit in this intense (and fun!) fiction generator class: Designed like a HIIT workout (high-intensity interval training), you’ll write, write, write through prompts and exercises designed to strengthen your creativity on the page.  Leave with 1-3 new short pieces of fiction, additional prompts to take home, and the push to keep going.  Yes, there’s a playlist! 

Retracing the Steps: Writing Travel Stories

Six Sessions, First meeting is 2/12/25; 7:10 pm – 9:10 pm PT | Hugo House | Online

Pack your memories, memorabilia, journal entries, library cards, and beloved dreams. We’ll spend six weeks dissecting various structures of travel essays while writing our own. Learn more

Words that Stick: The Art of the Writer’s Newsletter

One Session, 2/22/25, 1:10 pm PT | Hugo House | In Person

Finally get your writer newsletter up and running! Learn strategies for engaging your readers, meeting goals, and marketing yourself and your work. Leave with your newsletter set up and an actionable plan for next steps. Learn more

High-Intensity Fiction Generator

One Session, 3/1/25, 10:00 am PT | Hugo House | In Person

Looking to exercise your writerly muscle? Push yourself to the limit in this fun, high-intensity, fiction generator class. Learn more

The Writer’s Newsletter (1 session, Saturday, 6/1/24 10-1:00p PST | Hugo House)

Free email newsletters offer writers a range of benefits—a space to pilot ideas, publish supplementary writing to published works, share professional accomplishments, and connect with readers. Whether you’re a published author or just getting started with creative writing, this workshop will bring you up to speed on how to use the tried-and-true staple of internet communication, email, to your advantage. We’ll go over publication strategies that suit your longer-term goals and then get started with setting up your own newsletter.

Writing About Past Travels (6 sessions, Wednesdays, 1/24, 1/31, 2/7, 2/21, 2/28, 3/6, skip date: 2/14, 7:10-9:10p PST | Hugo House)

“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves. And we travel, next, to find ourselves,” writes Pico Iyer. Let’s take that second journey: visit your inward passages by writing a travel essay about past travels. Pack your memories, memorabilia, journal entries, library cards, and beloved dreams. We’ll spend six weeks dissecting various structures of travel essays while writing our own. The determined will complete a full draft to pitch for publication; all will enjoy the views from retrospect.

Cultivating Apocalyptic Sensibilities: Climate Fiction (6 sessions, Tuesdays, 5/3-6/7, 5 – 7 pm PST, Hugo House)

A thrilling and terrifying premise differentiates climate fiction (cli-fi) from science fiction. The earthly tipping point is past. The apocalypse has happened. And climate fictions offer anxious, thrilling stories of radical adaptation to the unwanted badlands—and the many forms they could feasibly take. We’ll read and discuss works by authors such as Octavia Butler, Ursula Le Guin, Yun Ko-eu, Charlotte McConaghy, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Karen Russell. We will use writing prompts to cultivate our own fiction with apocalyptic sensibilities.

 

University classes

Lecturer, Communication – Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, University of Washington-Bothell (2020-present), courses such as:

Introduction to Communication

Introduction to Interactive Media

Special Topics in Media Studies (Game Studies)

Special Topics in Communication

Cultural Impacts of Information Technology

Social & Cultural Effects of Social Media

 

Pedagogy

Our skills and capacities are not unchanging, we grow, shift, and can strengthen ourselves over time. As a person, I am learning and growing, and finding new ways to unfold and bloom. As an instructor, I seek to facilitate class as a series of meaningful interactions, to set up ways for students to unfold and bloom.  

I encourage students to take risks by listening, following ideas, and naming the extraordinary in the ordinary.

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I am available to deliver workshops and training, to moderate panels, interview guests, or speak at your events.