Publications

Wait for it:

• • Contact (a short story forthcoming with Oratoria)
  • “The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You” (a poem forthcoming with Earth’s Daughters)
  • Laundry: Home of the Good Shepherd (a short story forthcoming with J Journal)
  • It Isn’t Easy When You See Everyone Die (a short-story/novel excerpt forthcoming with AMP Hofstra’s Literary Magazine, spring 2019)
  • I wish human destruction was like (a poem forthcoming in Thimble Magazine, spring 2019)
  • Lessons from Mom (a poem forthcoming with 8 Poems, June 2019)
  • Oenophile (a poem forthcoming in The Anglican Theological Review, ~2019)
  • Children (a poem forthcoming on Lodestone)
  • Physics and Green Room (poems forthcoming on Plume Poetry)

Read now:

2019

• I Get To Decide What’s Helpful For Me on Mad in America (March 13, 2019)
• Anger on The Manifest Station (March 7, 2019)
• A book review of Thomas Clerc’s Interior on Real Change (Feb. 20, 2019)
• My second guest post for Women in Theology: Who and How? An Invitation: (February 11, 2019)
• Both Sides, End After End and How The Church Tells Time on isacoustic (February 6, 2019)
• 5 Ways to Protect the Planet While Uplifting People with Disabilities published in Yes! on 1/24/19 was picked up by TruthOut (January 27, 2019)
• 5 Ways to Protect the Planet While Uplifting People with Disabilities in Yes! Magazine (January 24, 2019)
• 17 “Impossible” Success Stories That Prove We’re Making Progress in Yes! Magazine (January 23, 2019)
• A book review of The Death of Truth in Real Change (January 9, 2019) 

2018

• Nothing is Red on Counterclock (December 14, 2018)
• To Be Tacked on Corporate Doors on Folded Words (November 28, 2018)
• The Real Attention Deficit Disorder on Mad In America (November 24, 2018)
• My first guest post for Women in Theology: An Introduction to Mental Illness in a Theological Context (November 23, 2018)
• Stars, Ice and Fuel in caesura (November 17, 2018)
• A book review of Donald Hall’s A Carnival of Losses in Real Change News (November 14, 2018)
• I Want a Reply, an essay for NUHA’s writing competition (Oct. 31, 2018)
• Suicide Hotlines, Risk Assessment and Rights: Whose Safety Matters? on Mad in America, Oct. 23, 2018)
• Anger on Women’s Voices Matter (Oct. 15, 2018)
• Part 2 of my book review of Andrew Solomon’s Noonday Demon (Oct. 12, 2018)
• “Love in the Injustice Age,” page 40 of the Fall Issue of Shatih Journal (Oct. 6, 2018)
• We Need To Talk About Self Careon Mad in America (October 2, 2018)
• Perforation; Stars, Ice and Fueland 12-Step Communion with Leaping Clear (fall issue, September 2018)
• Negative Space in the fall issue of borrowed solace (Sept. 21, 2018)
• A book review of Andrew Keen’s How to Fix the Future in Real Change (Sept. 19, 2018)
• David Foster Wallace: Suicide and the Death of Agency on Mad In America (Sept, 12, 2018, the ten-year anniversary of DFW’s suicide)
• Here, Me with The Adirondack Review Fall Issue (September 1, 2018) – this prosepoem has been nominated for a Pushcart (December 2018)
• The Impervious Surface of Professional Help: A Letter to My Therapist as part of Mad in America’s spotlight on Suicide (September 1, 2018)
• Sleep Study with daCuhna (August 27, 2018)
• Can a Strict Vegetable Diet Cure Cancer? A review of The Food Cure in Yes! Magazine (August 16, 2018)
• (For)Give Us Our Senses in Raven’s Perch (August 5, 2018)
• Part 1of a book review of Andrew Solomon’s The Noonday Demon on The Seattle Star (August 3, 2018)
• The Equality App with Ghost Parachute (August 1, 2018)
• A book review of BJ Mendelson’s Privacy and How to Get It Back from Real Change News (August 1, 2018)
• #MeToo or Not to #MeToo Should Not Be The Question, reposted on Women’s Voices Matter originally posted on The Manifest Station, was solicited to be (July 13, 2018)
• Perforation with Pangolin Review (July 8, 2018)
• A book review of Svend Brinkmann’s Stand Firm in Real Change (July 11, 2018)
• An op-ed about the myth that poor people are coming to Seattle for our “good services” in Real Change News (July 4th, 2018)
• An interactive book review of The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides (June 30, 2018)
• Papa Asparagus on Soft Cartel (June 23, 2018)
• “Oral History” on page 8 of Issue 22 in Redactions: Poetry and Poetics (June 2018). This poem has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize as of November 2018.
• Suicide in a Culture of Mandated Happiness – Who’s to Blame?, one of the most popular articles on Mad in America the week of June 14, 2018
• “How To Talk About The Weather” in Ibis Head Review (June 2018 issue)
• An interactive book review of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States (May 31, 2018)
• This Is Your Personality Test on Capitalism on Mad in America (May 29, 2018)
• A review of my chapbook Long Division on At The Inkwell (May 24, 2018)
• Happy Little Trees: A Call for Positive Art During Dark Times, Folk Rebellion’s The Dispatch (The American Dream Issue,May 2018)
• “You Don’t Look Disabled”on Unemploymentville (May 8, 2018)
• An interactive book review of Molly Peacock’s The Analyst (May 7, 2018)
• Book review of The Once and Future Liberal by Mark Lilla in Real Change (May 2, 2018)
• But You Should Never End a Sentence With a Bird on Sunlight Press (May 2, 2018)
• Both Sides and Insomnia at the Beach on Blanket Sea (April 16, 2018)
• Apply Yourself, Your Whole Self and Nothing But Yourself– my first blog post with Mad in America (April 6, 2018) – my posts will be appearing once a month or so on Mad in America.
• A book review of A World of Three Zeros by Nobel-prize-winning economist Muhammad Yunnus in Real Change News (April 4, 2018)
• “Walk Up Not Out” is a campaign of cowardice and control in Real Change News (April 4, 2018)
• Caregiver on Unbroken Journal (April 1, 2018)
• A Mouth Named Cat(pages 16-20) in Riggwelter (April 1, 2018)
• What’s Wrong with Saying Stephen Hawking is Finally Free with Yes! Magazine (March 29, 2018)
• The Raft of Life with Flash Fiction Magazine (March 27, 2018)
• Perdida para Kiribati, my first Spanish-language poem with Toyon Literary Magazine (March 22, 2018)
• Five Things We Know About People Who Live The Longest, a feature article in the print issue of Yes! Magazine (Spring 2018 issue)
• Op-ed about Seattle’s sweetened-beverage tax in Real Change (Feb. 21, 2018)
• #MeToo or Not to #MeToo Should Not Be the Question on Manifest Station (Feb. 19, 2018)
• Hope Deferred on Tiferet’s Blog (Feb. 16, 2018)
• Book review of The Vanishing American Corporation in Real Change (Feb. 14, 2018)
• Op-ed about Trump and the outrage machine in Real Change (Feb. 7, 2018)
• Review of Malcolm Harris’ Kids These Days in Real Change (Feb. 7, 2018)
• An interview with Chuck Collins inThe Sun (February 2018 issue)
• Time with Spanida Literary Review (January 26, 2018)
• Subjects for the Smoking Room, a short story on  Contrary Magazine (Jan. 8, 2018) – this short story has been nominated for a Pushcart (November 2018)

2017

• Long Division, my first chapbook, released September 2017 with Finishing Line Press: Contact me to order a copy or order here. 
• A review of The Book of Joan in Real Change (Dec. 6, 2017)
• But You Should Never End a Sentence With a Bird on Here Comes Everyone (Nov. 21, 2017)
• Why I’m Not Having Kids on My So-Called Selfish Life (Nov. 8, 2017)
• Kindness Mattersop-ed in Real Change (Nov. 8, 2017)
• Depth Perfection in Zone 3 (Fall 2017)
• To The Invisible in Issue 5 of The Fenland Reed (Nov. 2, 2017)
• Subjects for the Smoking Room received Honorable Mention in Glimmer Train’s very short fiction contest (Oct. 25, 2017)
• Everything Orbits Camels on FictionWeek (Oct. 24, 2017)
• Young for Now, also included in my chapbook Long Division on the Same (Oct. 23, 2017)
• True story about Andrea Mobano, mother of three who fled the Congo thinking she’d never see her husband again (for a decade, she was right) (Oct. 17, 2017)
• Hard was a finalist in the Pen2Paper Poetry of Disability contest (Oct. 9, 2017)
• Why do we continue to accept the totally unaffordable reality of Seattle’s housing market?(Sept. 27, 2017)
• Portmanteau originally published in 2015 is now part of Pith’s first anthology (Sept. 11, 2017)
• Labor Day in Snapdragon (Sept. 9, 2107)
• Labor Day in Gravel (Sept. 1, 2017)
• Book review of Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy in Real Change News (August 9, 2017)
• Don’t Fall (for it) The Way The World Did in Up The Staircase Quarterly‘s Audio/Visual issue (August 1, 2017)
• Subject on Monstering Mag (July 22, 2017)
• Interview and review of Born on Third Base by Chuck Collins in Real Change (July 19, 2017)
• Shootings, Each a Mile Away and After Mom’s Grave on Sheila-Na-Gig (July 16, 2017)
• Metamorphose, winner of Creative Ink’s monthly poetry contest – UK version and Irish version (July 14, 2017)
• Mending School in Belletrist Magazine (July 2017)
• A Positive Mind Hurt My Body in You and Me Magazine (June 30, 2017)
• Presented from Church in the Decaying Shipyard, my full-length manuscript of poetry, at the Society of Vineyard Scholars’ annual conference at Yale Divinity School in New Haven, CT (June 22-24, 2017); video recordings: reading and follow up discussion
• A version of Busy is the New Fine in Real Change (June 21, 2017)
• Busy is the New Fine on Amendo (June 15, 2017)
• Light for the Blind on Bottlecap (May 21, 2017)
• “I Wish I Was as Skinny as You”in Lady Literacy Magazine (May 5, 2017)
• The March for Science Did More Harm Than Good in Real Change (May 10, 2017)
• I’m on the Autism Spectrum and Autism Awareness Month is Complicated for Me on PsychCentral (April 17, 2017)
• Self-Acceptance, in the Origami Poems Project‘s second annual The Best of Kindness 2017: The Poetry of Kindness (April 4, 2017)
• Cast Your Vision in Door is a Jar (April 3, 2017)
• Embracing the Homeless Woman Selling Papers in America Magazine (March 21, 2017)
• A Hoisting Point, pages 35-37 of issue one of The Hungry Chimera (March 1, 2017)
• Book review of The Rise and Fall of American Growth in Real Change News (Feb. 15, 2017)
• Stop Calling Trump an Outsider, reprinted in Real Change (Feb. 15, 2017)
• To My Confessor on Forage Poetry (Jan. 28th, 2017)
• The Hyphen is Not a Subtraction Sign, in Paper Nautilus’ Exhausting Honesty: An Anthology of Rage and Hope in America (Jan. 20, 2017)
• Stop Calling Trump an Outsider in Anti-Heroin Chic (Jan. 20, 2017)
• It’s Not Alzheimer’s on Visitantlit (Jan. 11, 2017 )
• $7 and Other Ceremonies in On Broken Stones (Tupelo Press), a collection of 2015 Truchas conference attendees (Jan. 2017) – if you would like to order a copy of this short chapbook, please let me know.
• Spoiler Alert on Obra/Artifact (Jan. 9, 2017)

2016

• Walking While Female on Stoneslide Corrective (Dec. 31, 2016)
• We Are All Hereon Path With Art (Dec. 31, 2016)
• Glass Hour on Algebra of Owls (Dec. 13, 2016)
• Divorce on After the Pause, page lll (those are three lower-case Ls) (Dec. 3, 2016)
• Not Jumping (since formatting matters, imagine this in four-lined stanzas rather than each line on its own since that’s the way I wrote/agonized over it), runner up in its annual Foley Poetry Contest in print and online in America Magazine (Nov. 28, 2016)
• An original piece (scroll to find my name) about my experience after Donald Trump’s election on This Is Not Normal (Nov. 17, 2016)
• Working Mom on 200 CCs (Nov. 4, 2016)
• A book review of The Making of Donald Trump in Real Change (Nov. 2, 2016)
• Placed in Glimmer Train‘s top 25 for their Very Short Fiction contest (Oct. 2016)
• Book review of The Value of Homelessness in Real Change (Oct. 12, 2016)
• Book review of Dark Money: The Hidden History of Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right in Real Change (Oct. 5, 2016)
• Not exactly a publication, but I wrote and a dear friend illustrated a children’s book for another dear friend’s son. It’s called Purple is for Playtime.
• A revision of Pinata on poems2go.wordpress.com (Sep. 9, 2016)
• Politics inThe Careless Embrace of the Boneshaker, a great weather for MEDIA anthology (August 8, 2016)
• In Defense of Apologies on ThoughtCatalog (July 26, 2016)
• How and why my husband and I both changed our last names when we got married on xoJane (June 17, 2016)
• The Green City in Real Change (June 15, 2016)
• Thoughts about unfriending on xoJane (June 9, 2016)
• Thoughts on Trump, an Op-Ed in Real Change (May 25, 2016)
• Birthday; April Contest winner for CreativeInk’s monthly writing contest (May 25, 2016)
• When You’ve Reached the End of Your Rope, Please Hold On: ThoughtCatalog (May 6, 2016)
• Letter to the Editor in The Seattle Times(April 25, 2016)
• Daring to Hope in Syria, in Pankhearst’s America is Not the World anthology (April 15, 2016)
• Autism Awareness Hurts, Rather Than Helps, People on the Spectrum, xoJane (April 12, 2016)
• Trigger Warnings Censor and Harm Survivors, xoJane (April 8, 2016)
• Op-Ed in Real Change (April 6, 2016)
• Looking Autistic in The Atlantic (March 24, 2016)
• Cornfield Country republished w/ permission on Seattle Pacific Seminary’s blog (March 17, 2016)
• Book review of Invisible in Austin in Real Change (March 2nd, 2016)
• Piñata, Physics and Vapor in Tiny Poetry: Macropoetics (Feb. 26, 2016)
• Five poems from my chapbook Long Division with Five (Feb. 23, 2016)
• When Getting Grounded Takes a Sea in LitroMagazine (Feb. 20, 2016)
• Interview with Alyssa Katz, author of The Influence Machine: The Chamber of Commerce and the Corporate Capture of American Life in Real Change (Jan. 27th, 2016)
• Clay, top-ten finalist in Blue Bonnet Review’s annual poetry contest (Jan. 22, 2016)
• Op-Ed in Real Change about fear and comfort in today’s political environment (Jan. 6, 2016)

 2015

• Book review of The Rule of Nobody in Real Change (Dec. 9, 2015)
• Contest winner: short piece in course catalog (winter 2015, page 2)
• Laundry in Three Line Poetry (Nov. 2015)
• Essay in Atticus Review: “ASD: A Spectrum in the Rough” (Oct. 27, 2015)
• Letter to the editor at The New Yorker (Oct. 26, 2015) re: Malcolm Gladwell’s Thresholds of Violence
• Portmanteau with Pith (October 22, 2015)
• Interview with author Robert Scheer about government spying, his book They Know Everything About You and what we can do to restore individual privacy (Sept. 30, 2015)
• Interview with medical interpreter trainerJuan Gutierrez in Real Change (Sept. 23, 2015
• How To Get Really Married in the Juniper Artland Competition (Sept. 22, 2015)
• The Pastor on fiftywordstories.com (Sept. 8, 2015)
• Received Honorable Mention in Writer’s Digest’s 84 Annual Writing Competition for my nonfiction essay Depth Perfection (Sept. 2015)
• Vapor, printed on a postcard, interview with Red-Flag Poetry Service (August 15, 2015)
• Participation in the Lament for the Dead project, mourning the loss of Craig Whisenand (August 12, 2015)
• Op-ed article in Real Change about the laws banning/restricting distributing food to the homeless (July 15, 2015)
• Op-ed article in Real Change about WA State’s new addendum to its mental health legislation, “Joel’s Law” (May 27, 2015)
• May 2015  participant in Tupelo Press’s 30/30 Project – a poem-a-day fundraiser for this indie literary press
• Five Pieces on Scotland’s Annual Open Arts and Craft Open Studios event, the “Spring Fling” (May 22, 2015)

1. Revenance
2. Vapor
3. Clay
4. Perforation
5. Rock, O My Baby

• “Carousel Time” in Only Trollops Shave Above the Knee (April 30th, 2015)
• “The Green City” on New Verse News (April 5th, 2015)
• “Catch” in Souvenir Lit Magazine (Feb. 27, 2015)
• Bio and story on stigamfighters.com (Feb. 7, 2015)
• Book review of War of the Whales by Joshua Horwitz in Real Change (Jan. 8th, 2015)

2014

• “Why Women Matter: The Church of God as the Face of God”on The Junia Project (Dec. 9, 2014)
• Book review of Getting Lifeby Michael Morton in Real Change (Nov. 5th, 2014)
• “To Infinity and Beyond” (a never-ending fight between my husband and me about the nature of infinity) in Clash of the Couples(released in stores November 3, 2014)
• “Promises,” “Instructions” and “After,” in Lodestone(Oct. 1, 2014; print/digital)
• “Church” (Aug. 2014) and “Abacus” and “Cornfield Country” (Dec. 2014) in Page and Spine 
• “Excerpts from a War Memoir” in Halfway Down the Stairs (June 2014)
• Articles and review for Seattle Pacific Seminary’s blog (Sept. 2013 – Oct. 2016):

1. Reflections on former bishop N.T. Wright’s lecture
2. Synopsis of Madeleine Albright’s Visit
3. Review of James Bryan Smith’s Church Leaders Forum
4. Synopsis of James K.A Smith’s “Imagining and Desiring the Kingdom Lecture  
5. Review of the Annual Paul T. Walls Lecture: Dr. Wall on Revelation:  Part I and Part II
6. Synopsis of “Spiritual But Not Religious: Seeking Transcendence in a Secular Age” Discussion
7. Review of Andy Crouch’s keynote address for the Day of Common Learning
8. Synopsis of Race in America after Ferguson Forum at SPU: Part Iand Part II
9. Reflections onSeattle Evangelicals for Racial Justice, hosted by First Free Methodist Church
10. Palmer Lecture Series: Review of Lecture and Q&A session
11. Reflections on the Pacific NW Conference’s Racial Reconciliation Summit
12. Recap of “Hackers, Spies and Freedom” – a lecture by former (and longest-served) director of the NSA, Gen. Keith Alexander
13. Summary of the annual Wall’s Lecture
14. Reflections on the First Annual “No Limits, No Boundaries” disability event

 

2013 and older

• “Little Book of Longing” and “Simulacra,” ditchpoetry.com (Dec. 2013)
• “A Rescue,” Café Aphra blog (Sep. 2013)
• Short, untitled piece, The Sun Magazine’sReader’s Write section (Feb. 2013)
• “Wishing Well,” Ballard Street Poetry Journal (March 2012)
• “Well,” honorable mention in Writer’s Digest Essay Competition (May 2011)
• “Blessed Are We,” Vineyards: A Collection of Christian Poetry(Feb. 2011)
• Nature of Words Rising Star Competition:

1. Won Poetry category for “The Little Book of Longing,” age group 25+ (Nov. 2012)
2. Honorable Mention in poetry category for “Dinner with My Father,” age group 19-25 (Nov. 2011)
3. Honorable Mention in nature essay category for “Noisy Roots”, age group 19-25 (Nov. 2010)
4. Won nonfiction short story category for “Moving,” age group 19-25 (Nov. 2009)

• “To Be Attitudes,” grand-prize winner in the poetry category for Chapel Arts Commission at SPU (March 2009)
• My very old blog I started to document my solo travels around Europe in the summer of 2009 and a bit beyond