Writing

BOOKS

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Rupture, Light. Finishing Line Press, 2019.

Press:

Ruminate Magazine

Speaking of Marvels

Lit Habits for Writers

On Writing and Faith

Propeller Books

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Winged: New Writing on Bees. Co-edited with Jill McKenna Reed.  Poulin Publishing, 2014.

Press:

Propeller Magazine

The California Journal of Women Writers (Mar 2015)

ESSAYS

Unlocking my Mother’s Diary, Emily D. Tea Traveler, September 2021

The Pregnancy Sandwich, Coffee + Crumbs, July 2021

On Rest, Hammocks, and Wasting a Life with James Wright, Tweetspeak Poetry Press, June 2021

The Garden We Won’t Leave Behind, Coffee + Crumbs, April 2021

Your Mother is Reparking the Car, Hip Mama, Feb 2020

Baptisms, Relief Journal, Oct 2019

You Always Get Sick, Entropy Magazine, May 2019

Food + Shelter, Writers Resist, Dec 2018

When You See the Heartbeat, Coffee + Crumbs, June 2017

Through, Coffee + Crumbs, March 2017

A Vocabulary of Growth, Mothers Always Write, Nov 2016

Mom Psalms, Hip Mama, Sep 2016

Bees, a Book, and Risk, Relief Journal, Feb 2015

POEMS

Going Through Old Pictures, Vita Poetica, Winter 2020

Geranium and Cabbage, Vita Poetica, Winter 2020

Landscape With Mother of Young Children, Empty House Press (Issue 3), Winter 2020

Translations, Ruminate Magazine (Issue 42), Spring 2017

Fugue, Relief Journal, Spring 2017

An Incomplete Alphabet, Ekphrastic Review, Oct 2016

Yellow, Ruminate Magazine (Issue 40), Fall 2016

Imsland and What Fills, Ruminate Magazine (Issue 36), Fall 2015

Nullus Partus, Taos Journal of International Poetry & Art, 2015

Freshman Biology, Catamaran Literary Reader (Issue 7)

Snow and Ashes; Tidepools, Propeller Quarterly, May 2014

At the Roadside Rock and Gem Store, basalt (Vol 9:1), 2014

The Seeker, Ruminate Magazine (Issue 29), Fall 2013

Working from Home, Water~Stone Review (Vol. 16), 2013

By the Gate, Catamaran Literary Reader (Issue 3)

The Future Stops at the Past in Need of Repair, Sugar House Review (Issue 6), Spring 2012

BOOK REVIEWS

 On Kristin Berger’s Echolocation, Cider Press Review

On Elizabeth Myhr’s the vanishings and other poems, Calyx Review (Vol 27:2)

On The Lathe of Heaven, Propeller Quarterly (Vol 2:3)

ARTICLES

Full archive of articles for Red Tricycle Portland

How Community Gardens Renew our Foodways, In Good Tilth (Vol 27:4)

Bee Plus, In Good Tilth (Vol 24:4)

And Baby Makes Wheee! Profiles of Bike-powered Families, Boneshaker: A Bicycling Almanac, Issue 43-200