The Queer Bard: Telling Stories of Time + Place
I have always been a storyteller, exploring the ways people are impacted by time and place. In a former career, I worked as a freelance journalist covering the ways people transcend, connect, heal, and explore identity through food, drink, and psychedelics/plant medicine. I still explore and serve these areas through research, events, volunteering, ethnographies, podcasts, and writing.
I am available for freelance writing and editing work on a per-project or part-time basis; contact me for more.
Awards + Recognition
2021, North American Guild of Beer Writers Diversity in Beer Writing Grant
2021, Best Travel Writing (3rd), “Past Meets Prescence: A Voyage Through Seattle’s Ballard Brewery District”
2022, Curve Award for Emerging Journalists (Financial support and professional development cohort from the NLGJA: Association for LGBTQ Journalists and The Curve Foundation, given to writers whose work fosters fair and accurate coverage and elevates the voices of LGBTQIA+ women and nonbinary people)
2024, Best Brewery Profile (2nd), “Things Are Not What They Seem: Hildegard Ferments & Botanicals in Seattle, WA”
Written Portfolio
More Than Chocolate: Cacao, Syncretism, and Ceremony
Zine co-produced with Bean to Barstool
Decolonizing Psychedelics Through Inclusive Retreats and Practices
In Seattle, a Taste of Home and a Business Opportunity
Queer Cafés and Gay Mylk
Wellcome Collection x Sourced Journeys
Pike Place Market Has Offered Me Lessons of Resilience
Seattle Met (print and digital)
The UK’s LGBTQ+ Bookstores Are Thriving
Things Are Not What They Seem: Hildegard Ferments & Botanicals
Queer Healing With Ayahuasca
The Potential of Propolis for Beekeepers
No More Auteurs — Can Alternative Ownership Save Craft Beer from the Cult of the Singular Male Genius?
Good Beer Hunting (Co-Authored With Jerard Fagerberg)
Psychedelic Pints: Finding Oneness Through Beer and Other Drugs
The Case for Giving Psychedelics to Kids
Subdued Love — (Re)Discovering Bellingham’s Craft Beer Culture
The Psychedelic Preparedness Scale: A Tool to Optimize Trip Outcomes
Seattle’s First Black-Owned Brewery Is Opening in the Central District
Show the Receipts: Black Is Beautiful Collaboration Beers Raised Funds, Now Eye Systemic Change
The Grand Beer Bargain: Stoup’s Big Risk Turns Big Reward
Get Involved With Your Beer
Prince John Recaptures Galveston
The New York Times Opinionator
(Co-Author, Richard Parker)
Things Are Not What They Seem — Hildegard Ferments & Botanicals in Seattle, Washington
Winner (3rd Place), Best Brewery Profile, 2024 North American Guild of Beer Writers Awards
The Still Point of the Turning World: Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
*Recipient, 2021 North American Guild of Beer Writers Diversity in Beer Writing Grant
Queer Cheese
Past Meets Presence: A Voyage to Seattle’s Ballard Brewery District
*Winner, Best Travel Writing, 2021 North American Guild of Beer Writers Awards in Beer Journalism; 3rd Place
I’ll Keep Them Still: The Nonbinary Experience in the British Beer Industry
DMTx: Now There’s a Way to Stay In DMT Space Longer
How to Unite the Psychedelic and Harm Reduction Movements?
I’ll Find My Way Home: The Women Winemakers Leading a Cretan Wine Revolution
Is There Still Room for Small, Underrepresented Psilocybin Growers?
Psychedelics and Self-Discovery: A Journey Through the Queer Perspective
Microorganisms and Magic — Jo Facer and Erin Bunting in Saintfield, Northern Ireland
Every Can Counts: Boycotting Coors in Colorado, the Castro, and Beyond
Good Beer Hunting (Co-Created With Brian Alberts)