Publications

Publications

“Transmute,” Waterwheel Review, May 1, 2023. Nominated for Best of the Net Anthology and a Pushcart Prize by Waterwheel Review

“Antifreeze,” Bacopa Literary Review 2022, November 2022

“Some Thoughts on Writing Hermit Crab Essays,” Brevity Blog, May 9, 2022

“Ode to My Husband’s Feet” and “Sacred,” SweetLit, Issue 14.2, April 5, 2022

“Kindness and Sorrow,” Brevity, September 13, 2021

“Searching for Gwen,” The Rumpus, “Voices on Addiction” column, September 8, 2021; A Harp in the Stars: An Anthology of Lyric Essays, edited by Randon Billings Noble, University of Nebraska Press, October 2021

“What to Leave Out,” Brevity Blog, August 19, 2021

“Refrain,” Pithead Chapel, Volume 8, Issue 6, June 2019

“What Happened on June 21, 2018,” Essay Daily, July 3, 2018

“Solving My Way to Grandma,” The Shell Game: Writers Play with Borrowed Forms, edited by Kim Adrian, University of Nebraska Press, 2018

“La Bella Rosa,” From the Heart of the Applegate: Essays, Poems, and Short Fiction by Applegate Writers, January 2016

“Bad Blood,” Chautauqua, Privacy and Secrets issue, June 2015

“Rebound Tenderness,” The Manifest-Station, May 12, 2015

“The Polarity of Incongruities,” r.kv.r.y Quarterly, Winter 2015, vol. xii. no. 1

“Her Body, a Wilderness,” Prime Number Magazine, Issue 61, October-December 2014. Third Prize in Creative Nonfiction, 2014 Prime Number Magazine Awards, judged by Ned Stuckey-French

“Crack My Heart Wide Open,” The Rumpus, October 9, 2014. Notable Essay, Best American Essays 2015

“Sojourns with Big Cats in Triptych,” Animal: A Beast of a Literary Magazine, July 2014. Nominated for Best of the Net Anthology 2015

“Something to Do with Baldness,” Under the Gum Tree, January 2014. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Under the Gum Tree, December 1, 2014

“I Have to Tell You Something,” Hippocampus Magazine, June 2013

“Death Box,” Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, January 2013

Katherine Paterson Profile: “A Heart Fashioned for Literary Citizenship,” Vermont College of Fine Arts Newsletter, Winter 2012

“Loquacious: A Serendipitous Word Choice,” The Word Cellar blog, August 2012

“Why I Write,” Bite My Manifesto, January 2011

“An Open Letter to Current and Future Teachers,” Oregon English Journal, Fall 2010