Author, communications manager at Portland Audubon, disability justice advocate, vegan, amateur macro photographer. Author of Misdirected (Seven Stories Press), a young adult novel. Misdirected is the story of fifteen-year-old Ben, who moves to a small conservative Colorado town where his atheism seems to be the only thing about him that matters to everyone. His classmates bully him for not fitting in, his teachers don’t understand him, and with his brother serving in Iraq and his sister away at college with problems of her own, Ben is left on his own to figure things out.