NONFICTION
The New York Times
"The summer I turned 11, we buried two wild birds and we did not bury my great-grandmother. We did not bury my great-grandmother because she had donated her body to science."
Catapult
“The first time I sneaked into a bell tower, I was fourteen years old.”
Hippocampus
“On the day you kissed me for the first time, a sparrow ate from my hand in the green respite of Central Park.”
BUST
“The woman drew a sketch on a piece of paper that looked like a giant grapefruit spoon, and she claimed this was one of the instruments that an abortionist would use to cut the baby out of me.”
Audubon
News articles included how baby puffins' diets are changing amid warming oceans, a school growing a native prairie in Minnesota, vineyards in the Pacific Northwest enlisting barn owls for rodent control, and a chalk art flash mob to help young herons and egrets falling from trees in Oakland.
"During World War II, they volunteered to be plane spotters near the coast. They had a little field guide of what German planes looked like, and they volunteered to look for these planes using their birding skills."
FICTION
Fourteen Hills
“Since his surgery, Dad remembered numbers, historical facts, the name of my prom date, where he and Mom went on vacation in 1979, but he couldn't remember anything that had happened in the last year.”
Fiction Southeast
“Memory is all we have left—our crops withered, our goats long dead, the village surrounded by a desert like an open mouth.”
Hobart
“Once, all foxes were silver. The queen of the foxes had a coat that shone like the trees after an ice storm.”
Soaring Penguin Press
Heliox, published in the comics anthology Meanwhile vol. 9
"The bottom of the ocean is basically another galaxy. No one knows how big giant squids can get, or where whale sharks have their babies."
POETRY
The Offing
"I am spinning on a carousel tied to the back of a wooden horse with its teeth maniacally bared.
I am falling through the heart of a dying star."
I am falling through the heart of a dying star."