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ESSAYS

Essays inspired by reading


“Top Ten Bits & Pieces of Ice”

Top Ten List for Little Fiction’s 2018 Year in Review (Little Fiction, 12/21/18)


“Purple Ball Day”

An Essay on Family Traditions, Faith, and Doubt (The Manifest-Station, 6/16/17)


“Their Bodies, Their Selves”

Inspired by Eliza Factor (Bird’s Thumb, 4/18/17)


“It’s A Man’s World”

An Essay on the Status of Women in the U.S. ((b)OINK, 1/02/17)


“Little Hubby on the Prairie: The Past’s Claim on Modern Manhood”

Inspired by Laura Ingalls Wilder (The Good Men Project, 1/31/16)


“The Wolf Inside”

Inspired by Michael Chabon (Literary Mama, 12/16/15)


“The True Story of My Grandmother’s Breasts”

Inspired by Roxane Gay (Prairie Schooner blog, 5/22/15)


“Meditations at Spring’s End: Snow Leopards, Pope Francis & Earl-Grey MarTEAnis”

Inspired by Peter Matthiessen & Essex Farm (GettingBalance.com, 6/16/14)


“Sex Tips from a Bookworm”

(ProjectEve.com, 6/10/13)


“Answering the Call of The Goldfinch”

Inspired by Donna Tartt & Cris Beam (GettingBalance.com, 1/30/14)


“It’s Not You, It’s Me: How to Dump a Book”

(ProjectEve.com, 8/6/13)


“Stuck in Parenthesis: The Cellist of Sarajevo“

Inspired by Steven Galloway (ProjectEve.com, 5/17/13)


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Latest Post

Gull flying out over turquoise water

May I Hover Like a Gull

…Why not take the smashed pinecone of my life, render it in purple? Why not dream of baking thirteen pies, six bumbleberry, seven sour cherry? Yes, why not? As you may know, I recently dedicated myself to a new writing practice—a promise to copy a poem a day. And here I am changing the rules […]

Featured Work

A bowl of applies on a dark wood surface. Photo credit: Annie Spratt

The Pink Lady, The Honeycrisp

I have a new story, “The Pink Lady, The Honeycrisp,” in Wigleaf today. Wigleaf is one of my very favorite literary magazines; it is a place I go when I need to read something that resonates deeply. I hope my piece resonates in some way with you. I’m grateful to Scott Garson for his smart […]

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