Words in the Wild

A fun little Christmas surprise! One of my pieces is featured on an Urban Ganges reed diffuser. Purchase this Sandalwood and Vanilla scent this Christmas!

I have an essay in this year’s (2024) advent devotional put out by Christianity Today.

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I have three poems included in Issue 33: Fall/Winter 24 of Epiphany Lit Magazine! Download the digital copy or order the print magazine below.

My set of Two Poems, “the kingdom comes like a joke,” and “manifesto” are included on Epiphany Online.

My poem, “pentecost” is featured in the 2024 Spring Collection of Ekstasis Magazine with Christianity Today, photography by Angelica Reyn

My poem, “All This While We Don’t Notice” is included in Vol. 9 of the Belmont Story Review.

I am honored to be included in this beautiful anthology of poetry based off the writings of Soren Kierkegaard, in honor of Reverend Ronald Marshall

my poem, “that dark battle,” is featured in the lovely Winter Collection of Ekstasis Magazine with Christianity Today, photography by Charles Deluvio

My pieces, The Woman Who Has Tricked the Three Fates, and, freely, as before, appear in the just-published anthology Writers in the Attic: Three published by the literary-arts non-profit, The Cabin, in Boise, Idaho.

my piece, “Immanuel, a psalm in late summer,” included in Fathom Magazine’s Issue No. 54, alongside a beautiful collection

winner of the 16th Annual Mudfish Magazine Poetry prize, judged by Marie Howe for the poem, “the voice of one crying.” another of my pieces, “the perennial daring,” is included in this collection as well.

I have the privilege of having a few pieces, “Fishing,” “City Deer,” and “St. Mary on the Mount,” published in Westwind UCLA’s fall 2023 journal!

My poem “Christmas, Denton TX” included in The Sunlight Press. This piece is particularly special to me, and I am so honored to have it included.

my poem, “Loss, Accumulating,” was included in Vol. 26.2 of the journal, The Windhover

as a Deep Down Things guest writer, an essay about mothers and daughters, and the perils of school lunch (a la Anne Lamott, who says “when you don’t know what to write about, write about school lunch.”) Love you, Anne. Love you, Mom.

my poem, “your kingdom is coming like a Jackson Pollock,” was featured in the beautiful online Spring Collection of Ekstasis Magazine with Christianity Today, photography by Kseniya Budko

Wrote a piece about the mystery and joy of the holidays, and keeping ourselves open to wonder, questions, and mystery for The Wandering Hearth’s 2022 holiday series

my poem, “Twilights Have the Softness of Old Paintings”, was included in this year’s annual anthology Writers in the Attic: Moon, an anthology of poetry, stories, essays and other writings by authors near and around the Treasure Valley, with works selected by CMarie Fuhrman and organized by The Cabin, a literary arts non-profit in Boise, Idaho

winner of the Artist’s Choice award with the Page Gallery’s 2021 Exhibition, Poetry in Motion, in response to the painting Historical Society, by David Graeme Baker (above)

an anthology of poetry, stories, essays and other writings by authors near and around the Treasure Valley, with works selected by Harrison Berry and organized by The Cabin, a literary arts non-profit in Boise, Idaho

a collaborative anthology of poetry inspired by the Anglican liturgy for the Great Vigil of Easter, written in 2020 during the covid-19 pandemic, edited by Amy Bornman

regularly working and writing essays about my own journey with faith, doubt, and prayer for the mindful faith company and app, Dawn.

in this essay for the Wandering Hearth’s holiday series, I write about celebrating Christmas in the middle of change and growing up. (and also share a recipe for my family’s Christmas cookies!)

regularly writing with this really special instagram community of poets and artists, inspired by prompts about our own daily rhythms and what it looks like to live through apocalypse