Originally from the Bitterroot Valley of western Montana, I’m now a writer and freelance editor in southern California. I’m also Professor Emerita of English at Cal State San Bernardino. Before I moved back to California in summer 2026, I was a professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas at Austin.

I’m the author or co-author/editor of seven books, including the award-winning On Multimodality: New Media in Composition Studies (NCTE, 2014) and Techne: Queer Meditations on Writing the Self (CCDP, 2015). My most recent book is the 2024 Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Feminist Rhetoric, co-edited with Suban Nur Cooley. I’m also a filmmaker: Once a Fury, my documentary that profiles a lesbian separatist collective from the early 1970s, is available to watch at TelloFilms or buy at GoodDocs. I’m currently juggling two projects: a “song cycle” of short films called I Am My Beloveds and a creative transcription/reworking of some 50 years of my grandfather’s journals/photographs/writing.