Lucky to Love Them; September 23 2026

Reminder to all: I’m giving away copies of my memoir-in-poetry chapbook, You Will Be Happy One Day. I’m so excited to report that I’ve shipped off the advance copies to the LAMBDA awards, and we’re almost a month out from its official release!

I’m getting back into the swing of classes, and adjusting to life as a wheelchair user. It’s a bit of a hassle at times, but the feeling of freedom it gives me can’t be overstated. It’s so much easier to manage a walking-distance trip when I’m not doubling over at random. I went out without the chair at one point last week and was hit by such a strong back spasm that I almost collapsed in the middle of a busy mall.

There are frustrations that come with the territory, mostly surrounding transportation and accessibility. It has me thinking a lot about one of the books I’ve written, in which an ambulatory wheelchair user is offered $100,000 in exchange for her ‘useless’ legs.

It was already an important book to me. I wrote it knowing the main character’s situation would be the same as mine eventually (though ideally without the horror book plot). I love horror with something social to say, some commentary to make, and I think that’s why I still feel so strongly about particular books I’ve written.

I’m lucky to still love them. I wish publishing loved them enough to put them into the world, but… All I can do is keep plugging away.