Trebor spent his twenties in San Francisco, where he was active in the spoken word scene of the late 80s and early 90s, publishing 5 chapbooks of poetry as well as numerous poems in various reviews, journals, anthologies and zines. In 1994, along with Marci Blackman, he co-edited Beyond Definition: New Writing from Gay and Lesbian San Francisco (Manic D Press), and wrote the song "Denny" for the homocore punk band, Pansy Division.

A Perfect Scar & Other Stories     (Haworth, September  2007) 

Trebor was born in San Francisco, raised in Seattle, and studied English and American Literature at the University of California at Berkeley.

For a full listing of his published work, see the Publications page of this website.

Trebor was awarded a writing residency at the Morris Graves Foundation, Summer 2004.

Trebor has worked a variety of jobs to support his writing habit, from washing dishes, busing tables, catering and bartending, to copywriting for the phone company and working as a lackey for a traffic engineering firm, where he stood on street corners counting traffic for environmental impact reports and once compiled a complete sign inventory for the city of Fremont. In recent years he has taken to house-painting, brush-clearing, tutoring kids and teenagers, teaching occasional writing workshops, and as always, performing lots of editing and data entry. He currently works part-time doing research, communications and fundraising for the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy and thus would never ever consider shopping at Wal-Mart. Please don't.

Trebor went on a 3-month cross-country book tour for his first novel, Through It Came Bright Colors.