Nonfiction: Travel Grant!
I’m going to Kenya! I was awarded a $2000 grant from the Regional Arts and Culture Council here in Oregon to research my nonfiction book, Courage. With that money, I’ll […]
I’m going to Kenya! I was awarded a $2000 grant from the Regional Arts and Culture Council here in Oregon to research my nonfiction book, Courage. With that money, I’ll […]
Two new poems appear in Stone Poetry Quarterly this month.
I have a new poem published in Stirring Literary Journal this spring.
Some encouraging results from submitting my poetry manuscript to contests.
My poem “Morphine” appears in the latest issue of Intima: a Journal of Narrative Medicine.
I did a craft interview on immigration journalism, podcasting, and the power of slowness.
I bought a house in Portland Oregon, and it brought up a lot of questions – about privilege, about gentrification, about inherited wealth, about race, about pruning, about dreams, and […]
Hey – it’s been a while! I had a baby last year, so the writing/publishing has been a little slow. On the other hand, motherhood is giving me a lot […]
I’ve been writing about endangered species, including the Freshwater mussel species that used to fill the Mississippi River, and various amphibians who are particularly vulnerable to disease and climate change. […]
“Imagination is very personal; it’s like a fingerprint, it’s one of the most identifiable features of a self,” she says. “And at the same time, it’s also just a self. […]