A writer and a fighter.

Dusty is an artist, educator, and cultural narrator from Denver, Colorado. His writing is evocative, emotive, and a little bit funny. He is a Book Project Fellow at Lighthouse Writers Workshop currently writing a memoir on how to trust yourself as a masculine person in a patriarchal world. Dusty holds a Master’s in Creative Writing from University of Westminster in London and is a graduate of the Poetry Portfolio Program at the IPRC. His poems and essays have been published in The Lifted Brow, Lambda Literary, Foglifter, Cleaver Magazine, and DECENT. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, awarded Best of the Net by Sundress Publication and appeared on HBO. In his free time he can be found working out, intellectualizing his feelings, or spending quality time with his dogs and partner somewhere out west. You can read more of his work in the BOYS LOVE POETRY newsletter.

D. 2010

Portland, OR

D. 2015

Oakland, CA

D. 2017

London, UK

D. 2021

Los Angeles, CA

D. 2024

Denver, CO