Publications
What Happens When We Stop Remembering
Confronted with her parents’ dementia and teenagers’ climate anxiety, one woman considers how our baselines shift in the face of personal—and global—loss.
Orion Magazine “top ten articles of 2024" January 2024
Now You Don't
What happens when you struggle to believe in things you know are true, but are difficult to see?
Allegheny - The Allegory Ridge Nonfiction Anthology, November 2023 (print only)
Submerged
What it’s like to go underwater and return to a changed world.
Cream City Review, Issue 47.1 (print only), Spring/Summer 2023
A Turn at the Oars
What it feels like to take your own life in your hands, take charge, and live to tell the tale.
Griffel Literary Magazine #7, Spring 2021 (online, FREE)
With The Time Left
On a late season paddle down the upper Spokane River, the author wrestles with maturity and a disinclination to make mistakes.
The Write Launch, October 2024
Also published in the Northwind Treasury as a “top ten in nonfiction” by Raw Earth Ink.
Headwaters
I went to find the headwaters of Hangman Creek because I wanted to know what Hangman Creek looked like in the beginning, before it went off course.
Prairie Schooner, Vol 97, No 3 (print only)
Fall 2023
Ponderosa
Like most people, I struggle to comprehend matters of scale. Moments measured in nanoseconds or millennia. Items greater or smaller than I can detect with the naked eye. Amounts above a million or below an eighth. My field of vision, I’m afraid, is decidedly narrow.
The Sunlight Press, Spring 2025
