My long-awaited essay titled "Mardi Gras' 95," which won First Place for Nonfiction last fall in the 2025 SLO NightWriters Golden Quill Writing Contest, has now been published in the 2025-26 issue of The NightWriter Review. The NightWriter Review is the annual publication of the San Luis Obispo NightWriters, a writing community in Central California that provides … Continue reading Check out my award-winning essay “Mardi Gras ’95” in San Luis Obispo’s The NightWriter Review

