I want to respond to our messy cultural and ecological moment by telling, as Barry Lopez urges, “a story that helps.”
To me, that means highlighting the entangled relationships between humans, other species, and the places we share. I aspire to weave natural history, science, and wilderness experience into prose and poetry that opens to lay readers. See below for a selected record of published pieces.
Prose
“Caught”: Deep Wild Journal, Volume 7, 2025.
“Coordinates”: The Gettysburg Review, Volume 34.3, 2023.
“Moonsight”: Waterwheel Review, Issue 31, 2023.
“And When You Speak You Hear It Still”: Deep Wild Journal, Volume 4, 2022.
“On the Birds of the Air”: The Fourth River, February 2020.
“A Better Animal”: The Hopper, Issue IV, 2019. Nominated for a 2019 Pushcart Prize.
“Notes from the End of the Affair”: The Hopper, 2019.
“Shaver’s Creek Reflections”: Creek Journals, 2018. Prose and poetry contributions to a hundred-year-long, place-based writing project.
“Cuttings”: The Hopper, Issue I, 2016.
Poetry
“Sonder and the Rock”: Summit Journal, Issue 325, Fall 2026.
“Returning to the Mountain”: Summit Journal, Issue 325, Fall 2026.
“Suppose Your Mother Is A Beaver”: A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia, University of Georgia Press, 2024.
“Advice to a Monolith”: Rattle, Poets Respond, June 23, 2024.
“The Fire, Never Far”: Alpinist Magazine, Issue 85, Spring 2024.
“As a Kayaking Guide, I Always Describe Oyster Sex With Particular Care”: Deep Wild Journal, Volume 5, 2023. Nominated for 2024 Pushcart Prize.
“The Ultralight Hiker Reconsiders”: Adventure Sports Journal, Issue 128, Spring 2023.
“Genesis”: Between Paradise and Earth: Eve Poems, Orison Books, 2023.
“My Body Stops the Sun”: Alpinist Magazine, Issue 81, Spring 2023.
“Alpine Start”: Alpinist Magazine, Issue 78, Summer 2022.
“The Mother Considers Her Hometown”: Cider Press Review, 2022.
“Alpine Shelter”: Alpinist Magazine, Issue 77, Spring 2022.
“A Series of Discoveries”: High Desert Journal, 2022.
“The Pangolin, Revisited”: Cimarron Review, Issue 216, 217, and 218, Summer and Fall 2021.
“On Sleeping Near a Dead Moose in the Talkeetna Mountains”: Deep Wild Journal, Volume 2, 2020.
“Black Skimmers”: Hawk and Handsaw, January 2019.
“Albatross Ekphrasis”: Hawk and Handsaw, January 2019.
“Shaver’s Creek Reflections”: Creek Journals, 2018.
“Barrier”: Winner of the 2018 Marjorie E. Peale Prize from The Poetry Society of South Carolina.
“In Which Our Heroine Intends to Write Her Paramour a Letter, Searches for Appropriate Love-Poems to Enclose, and Becomes Irritated by Gender Dynamics”: Winner of the 2018 Humorous Verse Prize from The Poetry Society of South Carolina.
“Service”: Winner of the 2017 Forum Prize from The Poetry Society of South Carolina.
“Puppetry”: Winner of the 2017 Patricia and Emmett Robinson Prize from The Poetry Society of South Carolina.
“From Lausanne Cathedral”: Winner of the 2016 John Robert Doyle, Jr. Prize from The Poetry Society of South Carolina.