Publications


REVIEWS / COLUMNS / STRAYS

“Learn to Dwell in the World You Are Creating”: An Interview With Jan Stinchcomb, Atticus Review September 2023

“Writing is a Way In Which I Take Care of Myself”: An Interview With Chelsey Clammer, Atticus Review, March 2023

The Border Between Truth and “Truth”: An Interview With Kristine Langley Mahler, Atticus Review, October 2022

Updating the Growth Management Act: Once More, With Feeling,” 350 Spokane

After COP26, How Do We Make the Global Local?” 350 Spokane

Review of Blackfishing the IUD by Caren Beilin, in Bridge Eight

Broadsides to Books: Where Your Body Will End,” a review of a translation of Eunice
Odio’s Territory of Dawn, for Broadsided


ESSAYS

ON ROTTING // phoebe 53.1

WHAT WE FOUND IN THE WOODS // Camas Magazine Winter 2022

THE EIGHT TYPES OF MEN YOU CAN BECOME // HAD 2022

ARACHNOPHILIA // Barzakh Magazine Summer 2022

THE SCOUT LAW // Peatsmoke Spring 2022

JEREMIAD // Superstition Review

THE BERKELEY PIT // Blood Orange Review 13.1

THE PARABLE OF THE MILLERITES // Tupelo Quarterly Issue 22

ON TRAVEL WRITING // High Desert Journal Issue 31

AFTER ZION // Blue Earth Review Issue 22

NOTES ON PREPARING FOR A WILDFIRE EVACUATION // Dark Mountain Issue 15

FAKING IT // Split Lip Magazine, August 2018

BUFFALO PARK // Atticus Review, September 2017

CONNECTING THE DOTS // Away, Fall 2015


FICTION

INTERKOSMOS // Thin Air (Winter 2022)

ANALOGUE NOSTALGIA // jmww

ALL GOOD THINGS // Bodega Issue 83.

THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS FOR KIDS WHOSE DADS ARE COMMIE DRAFT DODGERS // Longleaf Review Issue 4

THE NEXT BEST THING // Prism Review, Issue 20.

SCOUTING LOCATIONS // in Waxwing XIII

THE END OF AKROTIRI // Circa, Spring 2016


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