Recent publications

REunion on the St. Joe

Fiction. Unearthed.

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This road along the river isn’t the fastest route from Montana to the dry side of Washington, but she hasn’t crossed through here in years, and an opportunity to nose along unburdened by backseat questions should never, she believes, go unexplored. She pulls over, has a mind to go down and sit on the sandbar and do some remembering, but when she steps out, there’s a stillness that pins her to the door. It’s evening, and there should be birds, and the shushing noise the upriver wind makes in the trees. But it is quiet. …

Beneath Her Breath

Fiction. Spring 2022, The Hopper.

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Up the canyon’s walls, colors have bleached to pastel in the late summer heat. Oxidized feldspar forks through the granite, lightning streaks dulled a faint orange. Lichen, paled from neon to lime, lift their brittle edges to find and cup moisture. What few trees and brush root out a teetering existence on the cliff faces wear skins of ash and dust. Even the surface of the river, all soft curves to the canyon’s sharp angles, soaks up these muted tones, reflecting sky grainy and matte with smoke….

Betweenness

Nonfiction. Vol. 4, 2022, Deep Wild Journal.

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As humans, many of us eventually migrate into cities and suburbs. But I wonder if, like salmon, we haven’t evolved beyond feeling the pull to return to wild places, even if the place we migrate to isn’t one we stay 110 DEEP WILD: Writing from the Backcountry in—that it’s a betweenness, like the ocean for the sea-going salmon. That our journey isn’t stationary, that we have to travel to wild places—rivers, feeder creeks, the ocean.