Trickster at the End of a World

Trickster at the End of a World follows the author into the tall grasses of uncertainty and the spaces between realms. Guided by an obsession with coyotes and in search of things lost, I position the highly adaptive wild canid and its oft-mythologized archetype of the Trickster as a mirror, foil, and portal. Traveling down side paths and through loopholes to examine wilderness, entanglement, and dwelling in the margins, Trickster at the End of a World is a field guide for relearning how to be an animal in the aftermath of rupture.

Trickster at the End of a World was first presented as a Main Stage visual lecture performance at ICON11: The Illustration Conference in Kansas City, Missouri in July 2022. A grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission made this book adaptation possible.

Trickster at the End of a World was written, designed, and illustrated by myself, and beautifully printed, assembled, and published in June 2026 in an edition of 300 by Sming Sming Books.

I was interviewed by Cecilia Lei for Coyote Media about Trickster (“Why Coyotes Have Sunk Their Fangs into This Author”), and the book received generous praise from Alexis Madrigal at KQED (One Good Thing).