I want to help you create (and finish!) your story so you can create meaningful experience for others.

After more than thirty years of teaching in higher education, conducting community workshops, and mentoring private clients, I've helped thousands of people discover new ways to tell their stories across a variety of mediums, including comics. I'm a wonk for creative process, especially the unique yet universal (I believe) ways that structure and freedom can work together to help people achieve completed, satisfying creative projects. I've published award-wining fiction and nonfiction. My Lonnie Squires mystery trilogy (Whacked, Toasted, and Ditched, published under the pen name Josie Gordon) earned a Lambda Literary Award. I also contributed to nonfiction anthologies which have been nominated for an Edgar Award and won a Michigan Notable Book Award.