Publication Portfolio

Map Publication

Bikes to Books: A Literary Map of San Francisco, City Lights Books, Oct 2013 (second printing and poster publication, Jan 2015. Third printing, Oct 2016. Mini-zine printing, 2018)

Current bylines

• Substrate Arts, longform arts reportage and web content, 2023-present
• 48 Hills, arts and culture reportage, 2023-present
• Reasons to be Cheerful, freelance solutions journalism, 2021-present
• KQED, theatre criticism, arts and culture reportage, 2018-present

A few favorite clips

• A deep dive on underground cinema artists in the Mission District of San Francisco for Substrate Arts.
• A love letter to Mission District-based theatre-makers, Marga Gomez and Campo Santo, for KQED.
• My two-part series on accessibility in the performing arts for Reasons to be Cheerful: Part one, Part two.
• A literary psychomagical journey for the San Francisco Chronicle.
• A bevy of bouffon and activist clowns for American Theatre.
• A pair of East Bay Music Festivals tapped into my love of the dark: the Near Dark Fest, and the West Coast Women’s Darkwave Festival.
• An overview of Bay Area theatre collectives working with different models of shared governance and decision-making.
• A piece for Other Avenues in which I report on the future of worker cooperatives in the United States.
• I reviewed Berlin, by Jason Lutes, for the Quarterly Conversation.
• I wrote frequently on urban greening/DIY topics for the San Francisco Bay Guardian, such as this one on backyard bees, this one on bicycle repair classes, and this piece on homebrewed biofuels.
• All things Fringe Festivals: Travel narrative about the 2007 Montreal Fringe Festival, for Other magazine. Travel narrative about touring the International Fringe Festival circuit for Roadtrippers, in 2019. An earlier primer for Fringe Festival touring from 2014, for Theatre Bay Area. I followed comedian and solo performer Zahra Noorbakhsh to the New York Fringe Festival here and here. I wrote about touring on the Fringe circuit for my first published clip in Work Your Way around the World, by Susan Griffith, in 2004.

additional publication credits and history available upon request

She is a writer who strives to seek out unusual, off-the-beaten path events that are often not being covered elsewhere in the media.

– Cheryl Eddy, iO9 (formerly of the San Francisco Bay Guardian)