Upon graduation, went to work at a hotel doing front desk work and then maintenance. All through this wrote poems/fiction and wrote/performed/directed plays in various alternative spaces. Followed a woman to Toronto and spent 8 months getting an MA ... Race or gender doesn't play a big part in that most of my prose is the dynamic of one character to another at a basic love/don't love level: change colour, exchange male/female for male/male, female/female, whatever. ...