I'm an author, journalist, poet, blogger, and mom. My journalism has appeared in the New Yorker, Wired, Mother Jones, USA Today, the San Francisco Examiner, the SF Weekly, San Francisco Magazine and the San Mateo Daily News. In the 1990s, I worked as a music writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, Addicted to Noise, ROCKRGRL, and others.I'm the author of several books, including "Beloved," "Read the Music: Essays on Sound," and "Sacred Sonoma." My poetry has appeared in New Verse News, Terrain, Tertulia, Bardsong, Dispatch, and Lime Green Bulldozers, as well as several print anthologies. My new book, "The Columbine Effect: How five teen pastimes got caught in the crossfire and why teens are taking them back," will be out in December 2013. It details how Satanism, Grand Theft Auto, and Slayer can be a healthy part of growing up. My blog, Backward Messages, focuses on media misinformation about violent video games, paganism, heavy metal, goth culture, RPGs, teen literature, and more -- and how this misinformation can hurt adolescents. I live in San Francisco with my partner and daughter.