I want to respond to our messy cultural and ecological moment by telling, as Barry Lopez urges, “a story that helps.”
To me, that means listening closely to the more-than-human world . . . and noticing the entangled relationships among humans, other species, and the places we share.
See below for a selected record of published pieces.
Prose
“Moonsight”: Waterwheel Review, Issue 31, 2023.
“Coordinates”: The Gettysburg Review, Volume 34.3, 2023.
“And When You Speak You Hear It Still”: Deep Wild Journal, Volume 4, 2022.
“On The Birds of the Air”: The Fourth River, Issue 0.7, 2020.
“A Better Animal”: The Hopper, Issue IV, 2019. Nominated for a 2019 Pushcart Prize.
“Notes from the End of the Affair”: The Hopper, 2019.
“Shaver’s Creek Reflections”: Creek Journals, 2018. Prose and poetry contributions to a hundred-year-long, place-based writing project.
“Cuttings”: The Hopper, Issue I, 2016.
Poetry
"Suppose Your Mother Is A Beaver”: Forthcoming in A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia, University of Georgia Press, 2024.
“The Pangolin, Revisited”: Forthcoming in Cimarron Review, Issue 218, 2024.
“The Fire, Never Far”: Alpinist 85, 2024.
“As a Kayaking Guide, I Always Describe Oyster Sex With Particular Care”: Deep Wild Journal, Volume 5, 2023. Nominated for a 2024 Pushcart Prize.
“The Ultralight Hiker Reconsiders”: Adventure Sports Journal, Issue 128, April/May 2023.
“Genesis”: Between Paradise and Earth: Eve Poems, 2023.
“My Body Stops the Sun”: Alpinist 81, 2023.
“Alpine Start”: Alpinist 78, 2022.
“The Mother Considers Her Hometown”: Cider Press Review, 2022.
“Alpine Shelter”: Alpinist 77, 2022.
“A Series of Discoveries”: High Desert Journal, 2022.
“On Sleeping Near a Dead Moose in the Talkeetna Mountains”: Deep Wild Journal, Volume 2, 2020.
“Black Skimmers”: Hawk and Handsaw, January 2019.
“Albatross Ekphrasis”: Hawk and Handsaw, January 2019.
“Shaver’s Creek Reflections”: Creek Journals, 2018.
“Barrier”: Winner of the 2018 Marjorie E. Peale Prize from The Poetry Society of South Carolina.
“In Which Our Heroine Intends to Write Her Paramour a Letter, Searches for Appropriate Love-Poems to Enclose, and Becomes Irritated by Gender Dynamics”: Winner of the 2018 Humorous Verse Prize from The Poetry Society of South Carolina.
“Service”: Winner of the 2017 Forum Prize from The Poetry Society of South Carolina.
“Puppetry”: Winner of the 2017 Patricia and Emmett Robinson Prize from The Poetry Society of South Carolina.
“From Lausanne Cathedral”: Winner of the 2016 John Robert Doyle, Jr. Prize from The Poetry Society of South Carolina.
Visual Art
"Flight Beyond Words: Hairy Woodpecker.” Forthcoming in A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia, University of Georgia Press, 2024.
"Flight Beyond Words: Northern Goshawk.” Forthcoming in A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia, University of Georgia Press, 2024.