Alan Lessik is a San Francisco-based writer, a zen practitioner, amateur figure skater, LGBT activist and non-profit director. His debut novel, The Troubleseeker, will be published by Chelsea Station Editions in September, 2016. His non-fiction works include news articles published in the Advocate, San Francisco Bay Guardian, and Frontiers. His contribution to KQED Radio Perspectives, “Judge Not His Death” was one of the most commented on in 2014.
Trauma creates unfinished stories that reach deep into every part of our being. As writers (and readers), we know the unrelenting power of lingering stories, stories unwritten or unread, stories without conclusions. Stories that have a visceral urgency to be finished Read More
