About Odin

I work at the intersection of technology, creativity, and community, bridging the gap between science, the arts, and empathy. As an itinerant volunteer and community organizer, I've helped build projects for social good at both the national and local scales. As a librarian and creative writer with graduate degrees from SJSU's iSchool (in-progress) and the Stonecoast MFA, I engage directly with the public in multiple spheres, working to foment a plurality of perspective within diversity's infinite combinations.

My work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and has appeared online and in print. I co-founded founded Round Table Writers, an organization dedicated to “writers helping writers” and host the Round Table Radio podcast. I am an itinerant volunteer with organizations like Socrates Cafe, EveryLibrary, and the Surrey International Writing Conference. I believe in a future where the acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force in our lives, where we exist to better ourselves and the rest of humanity… and all my efforts are directed toward that goal.

Long Bio

The first book I remember reading was The Hobbit, and the experience transformed my nine-year-old perspective on the world. Stories could have power, I realized. I suddenly saw that stories could have the power to bring light from darkness, the power to embolden an individual to overcome incredible odds. I've been playing with the power of story ever since, whether as a game master for Dungeons & Dragons, a countywide organizer for National Novel Writing Month, a professional writer, or as a volunteer for various organizations (including EveryLibrary, Socrates Cafe/Democracy Cafe, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, The Surrey International Writing Conference, and the World Fantasy Convention).

In 2018, I co-founded Round Table Writers, an organization dedicated to “writers helping writers,” and started building an international community of writers, which went on to produce a successful podcast series.

I've presented my work at the International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts in both 2021 and 2022, with my papers on geographies of the fantastic, and on found families in speculative fiction.

My work has been published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, The Great Void Books, Collective Realms, Book XI: a journal of literary philosophy, Eastern Structures, Duende Literary, The Stonecoast Review, and two anthology collections from Enso Publishing. I have also self-published three poetry collections, including a chapbook of ELH Haiku.

I am currently a Masters in Library and Information Science student at San Jose State University's iSchool. My studies focus on personal knowledge management (PKM) and artificial intelligence (AI). Prior to this, I obtained my Master’s of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the Stonecoast Program out of the University of Southern Maine. Before entering Stonecoast, I received a BFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College.

As an advisory board-member for Socrates Cafe, an organization dedicated to fomenting deep dialog within society, I also serve as editor-in-chief for Socrates Cafe on Medium.

I have interned with the EveryLibrary foundation, bringing critical support to libraries the world over during a time of great political and social change. I was part of the team that developed the Fight for the First initiative, designed to empower those fighting to protect first amendment rights in the United States.

As the director of the Pacific Zen Institute's A/V Department, I led curation efforts for the KALPA library of online koans, the largest online archive of zen teachings in English.

In my spare time, I play Dungeons and Dragons, write fiction, and watch all the classic sci-fi and fantasy I can get my hands on. I also nerd out about personal knowledge management (PKM) and history. I currently live in Northern California with my wife and our (approximately) 9000 cats.

I believe in a future where the acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force in our lives, where we exist to better ourselves and the rest of humanity, and all my efforts are directed toward that goal.