Time: A Brief Manifesto, Sweet: A Literary Confection (forthcoming, June 2025)
At the Grave & The Shed, Sweet: A Literary Confection
“Intermezzos along the Road Home” in The Los Angeles Review.
“Alternative Healing Practices” in SweetLit.
Micro Essays “Gratitude” and “Electric,” in River Teeth’s Beautiful Things column.
“The Way It Was” at Arcturus Magazine.
Craft Essay for Split Rock Review.
“Ex Libris: The Last Week of Summer,” audio streaming from PRX Exchange. A commentary about the love of books and how it has to sustain me through the colder months, with special consideration for Anne Fadiman’s Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader.
“For the Faint of Heart,” from Ruminate Journal’s The Waking
“How to Read This Essay,” Winner of San Francisco’s 2015 LitQuake essay contest. Published in Word Riot (with audio).
“Passion within Parameters,” speech originally created for Speaker Sisterhood. A romp through the coming of age school years that looks at a love of language and how one’s passion can flourish despite, or sometimes because of, constraints and limitations. (audio)
Videos
“Ocean Girl Goes to the Desert,” story performed in Greenfield, MA, June 2019 for New England Public Radio’s Valley Voices Story Slam.
“Overflowing Borders,” video of speech delivered to Speaker Sisterhood Florence, MA club, December 2018.
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