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an account of endeavors

12/29/2025

I grew up in the American Southwest, mostly Phoenix. I was a Gen X 90s kid who came of age in zines, punk, hardcore, and indie rock before I started singing in bands, and then as a solo act. I got into booking shows at local venues, helping bands with websites, and hosting open mics. I also wrote about pro wrestling, including building a website for a local promotion and conducting interviews with their talent. As a singer/songwriter with darkly comic material, I ended up on bills with performance artists and comedians, which led to producing live comedy shows and interviewing comedians for a zine. Writing really ended up being the common thread, so I completed a degree in English Literature at Arizona State, then moved to Los Angeles to pursue movies and television.

I continued to play music in L.A. at venues like Bigfoot Lodge, El Cid, and The Smell, occasionally acted in independent films, did investigative reporting as a freelance journalist, and worked in television post-production while pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing, Fiction at Antioch University Los Angeles. As I started a chat show in the pioneer days of L.A. comedy podcasting, I also began emceeing literary events, performing at readings and storytelling shows, organizing and participating in zine fests and events (workshops, panels, etc.), and guesting on podcasts and live talk shows (see list). There was a brief run in small-circulation self-publishing where I helped organizers and creators with tabling events and distros, including through my own now-defunct press and even serving a role founding a Phoenix-based zine fest.

My participation with these other projects concluded as I left my career in television, moved back to Arizona, and completed my graduate program. After five years as an editor in the online literary community, I shifted my focus back to my own art and writing, as well as video content. My projects have included two series on the Morbidly Beautiful network, a YouTube horror review and travelog called Video of the Damned, and a horror interview video/audio podcast called The Chamber. One pilot episode for a more conversational horror podcast with my friend Justin is found at FrankConversationPod.com. For a time, I also revived the podcast Shakeytown with its co-creator Gene George, and stepped back into some previous literary and zine organizing and editing roles, as well as expanding into community mutual aid fundraising with The Coven PHX.

History is important to me, and sometimes I fancy myself a bit of an archivist. One way I’ve made this tangible is as a website developer and manager for the San Tan Historical Society, one of my favorite museums in Arizona.

But I am more than just this account of these various endeavors, and we are more than the sum of our parts. We are greater than the things we have done and the experiences we have had leading to this present moment. We are also the potential of what we do with all of that to evolve ourselves and to impact the world. I look forward to what is yet to be realized.

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