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Books
2020, July - The Query: A Maddie Hill Mystery (Book 1), Port Yonder Press, Author
2020, May - Creative nonfiction collection: Singing the Land: A Rural Chronology, Shanti Arts Publishing, Author
2019 Eastern Iowa Review Best Lyric Prose Plus Anthology, Editor
Awards & Nominations
2022
Pushcart Prize, Nominee ("Rumors of Death and Beauty" via Trampset)
Best of the Net Anthology, Nominee (Midway Journal)
2019
Force Majeure Flash Contest Award, Recipient ("The Importance of Air" via Storm Cellar)
Best of the Net Anthology, Nominee ("A Country May: 14 Days" via Mud Season Review)
Best of the Net Anthology, Nominee ("The Rural Chronicles: Junctures" via Belletrist)
Barry Lopez Creative Nonfiction Contest, Finalist ("Weeds" via Cutthroat, Judge: Heid Erdrich)
Barry Lopez Creative Nonfiction Contest, Finalist ("Topography" via Cutthroat, Judge: Heid Erdrich)
2018
Pushcart Prize, Nominee ("Twenty Rural" via Cimarron Review)
Pushcart Prize, Nominee ("A Sister Lyric: In the Finding of You" via Citron Review)
Best of the Net Anthology, Nominee ("A Rural Spring: 14 Days" via Portland Review)
Best of the Net Anthology, Nominee ("Five Days in the Iowan Outback" via Whale Road Review)
44th New Millennium Writing Awards, Honorable Mention ("The Rural Chronicles")
2017
Proximity Magazine Personal Essay Prize, Finalist (Judge: Adriana Ramírez)
Loren Eiseley Creative Nonfiction Award, Recipient
Pushcart Prize, Nominee ("Guesswork" via Red Savina Review)
2016
Linda Julian Creative Nonfiction Award, Recipient
Pushcart Prize, Nominee ("A Place Called Place" via Emrys Journal)
Essays, Poetry, Fiction (abridged list)
Essay, "Lost Sister Lyric: As If You Were Here," Still Point Arts Quarterly, 2025
Poetry, "Wall Hanging," and "In a Cloud," Vita Poetica, Autumn 2023
Fiction, "Acts," Lowestoft Chronicle, Issue #56, December 2023
Essay, "Drift in the Midst of Place," Still Points Quarterly, September, 2023
Essay, "Some Risk," Bookends Review, Fall 2023
Essay, "An Essay, Probably on Aging," Talbot Spy (Delmarva Review, reprint), July 2023
Fiction, "Linguist," Bright Literary Review, November 2022
Essay, "First Time Again," The Woolf (Switzerland), Issue 3
Essay, "An Essay, Probably on Aging," Delmarva Review, Fall 2022
Essay, "Rumors of Death and Beauty," trampset, June 17, 2022
Prose poem, "Challenge, You," Backchannels, March 2022
Essay, "Shambala: Mythical City of the Heart," Epoch Press (Scotland), print
Essay, "So What Do You Think About Cows, or, A Lingering Grief," The Big Windows Review (Washtenaw Community College, Ann Arbor, Michigan), October 2021
Flash essay, "The Rural Chronicles: Love," Persimmon Tree, 2021
Essay, "Twelve Rural," Freshwater Literary Journal (Asnuntuck Community College), print, Spring 2021
Essay, "A Clock Tower Keeps Its Seconds Even When the Bells Forget to Ring," Sierra Nevada Review (Sierra Nevada University), print, Spring 2021
Flash, Midway Journal, July 2021
Essay, "In the Beginning," Minnow Literary Magazine, Winter 2021
Essay, "Topography," Lumiere, Spring 2021
Flash essay, "Ancestry," Whale Road Review, Spring 2021
Prose poem, "On Not Forgetting," Backchannels, January 2021
Flash essay, "Brave Enough to Be Beautiful Along the Crust of a Sighing Globe," TIMBER (University of Colorado-Boulder), Issue 11.1
Essay, "Twenty Rural" (reprint), Turtle Island Quarterly, Winter 2020/21
Fiction, "Who Took the Chip?" Lowestoft Chronicle, December 2020
Essay, "A Typical Week of Rural Disquiet," Unearthed (SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry), December 2020
Flash essay, "The Wild Gold Things," Bending Genres, forthcoming December 2020
Essay, "Waterfields," New World Writing, November 2020
Essay, "Field Marginalia," River & South Review (Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University), June 2020
Prose poem, "If You Think Grieving is Easy, You’ve Never Learned to Knit," Red Rock Review (The College of Southern Nevada), Issue 44, 2020
Essay, "The Fire Anthology," Delmarva Review, print, Volume 13 (November 2020), reprinted in The Talbot Spy
Prose poem, "Grief is Not a Hand Grenade Until the Pin is Pulled," Neologism Poetry Journal, March 2020
Prose poem, "Heaven: for Cindy," Third Wednesday Journal, Vol. XII, #4 (Fall 2019)
Prose poem (or flash nonfiction), "Fresh Fire," Mojave River Review, Summer 2019
Essay & Force Majeure Flash Contest 1st place, "The Importance of Air," Storm Cellar, June 2019
Essay, "A Rural Fall - 7 Days," Sonder Review, Issue 11, Spring/Summer 2019
Essay, "A Rural Spring - 10 Days," 2019 print, Slippery Elm (The University of Findlay, Ohio)
Essay, "Ten Rural," Issue 26, Summer 2019, Cleaver Magazine (Philadelphia's International Literary Magazine)
Prose poem, "On the Occasion of a Dying Sheep When Everything You Know About Rural Living is Never Enough," Summer 2019, MoonPark Review
Essay, "Eight on a Winter's Rural," Spring 2019, Cold Mountain Review (Appalachian State University)
Essay, "The Rural Chronicles - Junctures," 2019, Belletrist (Bellevue College, Bellevue, Washington)
Essay, "A Rural October - 8 Days," print, Spring 2019, Barely South Review (Creative Writing program at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia)
Flash essay, "A Week in Rural October," February 12, 2019, Passages North (Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI)
Essay, "A Country May - 14 Days," Mud Season Review, Issue 41, 2018 (Burlington, Vermont)
Essay, "A Rural June - Week 1," Ponder Review, 2018 (Mississippi University for Women - Columbus)
Essay, "A Rural Week in June" [week 2], Atticus Review, October 4, 2018
Essay & Pushcart Prize nomination, "A Sister Lyric: In the Finding of You," Citron Review, Fall 2018 (started by graduates of the MFA-Creative Writing @ Antioch U, Los Angeles)
Essay, "This Sudden Passing," Turtle Island Quarterly, 2018
Essay, "Lost Sister Lyric: Remembrancer," Atlas and Alice, May 28, 2018
Essay, "What the Land Teaches," Hedge Apple Magazine (Hagerstown Comm. College)
Essay, "Ten Days With the Rural Jesus," Jet Fuel Review (Lewis University)
Essay, "Little Alice, Are You Sleeping?," Issue 3.2, Winter / Spring 2018, Cowboy Jamboree
Essay, "A Rural Spring - 12 Days," Spring 2018, Red Savina Review
Essay & Pushcart Prize nomination, "Twenty Rural," Issue 202, Winter 2018, Cimarron Review (Oklahoma State U)
Essay, "Two Weeks in Rural November," Issue 11, Tahoma Literary Review
Prose poem, "Iowa's Promise," Issue 8, Panoply
Essay & Best of the Net nomination, "A Rural Spring - 14 Days," 2018, Portland Review (Portland State University)
Essay, "A Rural November - 16 Days," December 2017, Stonecoast Review (University of Southern Maine - Stonecoast)
Finalist, "Country Workweek," 2017 Proximity Magazine Personal Essay Prize (unpublished)
Flash essay, "A Rural Life," July 2017, Burningword Literary
Essay, "A Rural Chronology," Issue 8, 2017, Bacopa Literary Review
Award, 2017 Loren Eiseley Creative Nonfiction Award, Red Savina Review & Pushcart Nomination for "Guesswork"
Essay, "A Rural January - 15 Days," January 2018 Roanoke Review
Flash craft essay, "Lyric Is a Sound We Hear Beyond the Noise," April 2017, The Tishman Review
Essay, "A Rural December - 15 Days," February 2017, Gravel
Flash essay & Best of the Net nomination, "Five Days in the Iowan Outback," Winter 2017, Whale Road Review
Everything published before this approximate time often contained an author bio reflecting incorrect heritage information (hearsay), which a DNA test thankfully cleared up.
Essay, "Quietude," Winter 2016, saltfront
Award, 2016 Linda Julian Creative Nonfiction Award, Emrys Foundation (Emrys Journal) & Pushcart Nomination for "A Place Called Place: For Martin"
Essay, "Senescence in the Study," Vol. 1, Issue 4, 3288 Review
Poem, "Getting Religion," JuxtaProse (April 2016)
Essay, "A Place Called Place: Migrations," 2016, Soundings East (Salem State University - Salem, Massachusetts)
Essay, "A Place Called Place: Flux," Volume V, #1, Storm Cellar
Poem, "Yuma Sunrise," Spring 2016, San Pedro River Review
Poem, "Yellow Chalk," February 2016, Red River Review
Fiction, "Karsten," Issue 8, On the Rusk
2 Poems, "The Woman Ages" & "Holy Night," January 2016, Kentucky Review
Essay, "A Place Called Context," Spring 2016, Blueline Literary Magazine (State University of New York - Potsdam)
Essay, "Discovery in the Midst of Place," Winter 2017, Silk Road Review (Pacific University - Forest Grove, Oregon)
Essay, "In This Space," December 2015, Sandy River Review (University of Maine - Farmington)
Essay, "Fitting Into Place: For Martin," November 2015, Stirring
Essay, "A Place Called Place: Surrounds," December 2015, 3288 Review
Essay, "A Place Called Place: For Martin," 2016 (Issue 33), Emrys Journal
Essay, "The Muddy Divine," November 24, 2015, Burrow Press Review
Essay, "Sunset Strayed," Spring/Summer 2015, Prick of the Spindle
Essay, "Sixteen Sunsets," Spring 2015, Stoneboat
Fiction, "Years," Winter 2015, Dirty Chai
Flash hybrid, "To Make Heard," March 2015, Issue 3.1, *82 Review
Essay, "Drift," December 2014, Mulberry Fork
Essay, "With a View," December 2014 (Issue 3), Elsewhere
Essay, "Bury Me Deep," November 2014, Pithead Chapel (Michigan's Upper Peninsula)
Essay, "What Makes Up the Middle," Fall 2014, The Milo Review
Essay, "After All," October 2014, Decades Review
Essay, "What the Clouds Bring," Issue #7, Cleaver Magazine (Philadelphia's International Literary Magazine)
Essay, "Horizons and Such," Fall 2014, Prick of the Spindle
Creative nonfiction, "Drowning in Clarity," September 2014, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine (University of Arkansas - Monticello)
Essay, "First Light," 2014, The Mayo Review (Texas A&M University - Commerce)
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Interview at The Roanoke Review
Interview at Mud Season Review
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I'm also honored to have endorsed these books:
Carla Schwartz's Signs of Marriage. Poetry. 2022. "I can't seem to get away from the truth of 'Contemplating Humanity While Swimming'. It's such a startling piece of writing, the theme of it. We all have the capacity, I think, to do what we think we'd never do, what others would swear we'd never do. This poem captures that, the heinousness of possibility in being human."
Stephanie Dickinson's Razor Wire Wilderness. Nonfiction. 2021.
Ellen Stone's What is in the Blood. Poetry. 2020. "Stone is a master of detail and tight wording, and her themes of home, family, nature, and illness resonate in these selections. Both emotionally and linguistically, they re a treat to read even in the midst of their often-darker themes."
Biman Roy's Of Moon and Washing Machine. Poetry. 2019. "Biman Roy’s Of Moon and Washing Machine is a lovely collection of poems fusing nature, psychological insights, and the delightful flavoring of his East Indian heritage. Some are straightforward and others more surreal, but all bring to mind an interesting and curious mind that views the world with precision and, at times, a touch of humor. An engaging read!"
Matthew Babcock's Heterodoxologies. Nonfiction. 2016. "Simply put, Matt Babcock deserves to be read. In Heterodoxologies, we find unabashed revelation, candidness, wit, and a fastidious attention to detail in the (always gorgeous) language, and though Babcock learned in third grade that “memory is a disease,” these stories will resonate and remain. In the vernacular, WOW. Brilliant writing; great essays."
Stephanie Dickinson's The Emily Fables. Fiction. 2016. "All of Stephanie Dickinson's works are about language: taut, urgent, effervescent. Her extraordinary talent shimmies in the daylight of her paged ruminations, in the night of her haunting revelations. Reading Stephanie Dickinson is like being thrown back in time to a more careful, more erudite, era of writing rising off the wings of a brilliance seldom seen these days; maybe it's because her 'Emily' pieces speak of that gentler time. Yet next to Annie Dillard, I'm not sure I've met Dickinson's contemporary equal. Her works are all about the lucid, arresting turns of phrase that make language as surprising and re-readable as it should be."
2020, July - The Query: A Maddie Hill Mystery (Book 1), Port Yonder Press, Author
2020, May - Creative nonfiction collection: Singing the Land: A Rural Chronology, Shanti Arts Publishing, Author
2019 Eastern Iowa Review Best Lyric Prose Plus Anthology, Editor
Awards & Nominations
2022
Pushcart Prize, Nominee ("Rumors of Death and Beauty" via Trampset)
Best of the Net Anthology, Nominee (Midway Journal)
2019
Force Majeure Flash Contest Award, Recipient ("The Importance of Air" via Storm Cellar)
Best of the Net Anthology, Nominee ("A Country May: 14 Days" via Mud Season Review)
Best of the Net Anthology, Nominee ("The Rural Chronicles: Junctures" via Belletrist)
Barry Lopez Creative Nonfiction Contest, Finalist ("Weeds" via Cutthroat, Judge: Heid Erdrich)
Barry Lopez Creative Nonfiction Contest, Finalist ("Topography" via Cutthroat, Judge: Heid Erdrich)
2018
Pushcart Prize, Nominee ("Twenty Rural" via Cimarron Review)
Pushcart Prize, Nominee ("A Sister Lyric: In the Finding of You" via Citron Review)
Best of the Net Anthology, Nominee ("A Rural Spring: 14 Days" via Portland Review)
Best of the Net Anthology, Nominee ("Five Days in the Iowan Outback" via Whale Road Review)
44th New Millennium Writing Awards, Honorable Mention ("The Rural Chronicles")
2017
Proximity Magazine Personal Essay Prize, Finalist (Judge: Adriana Ramírez)
Loren Eiseley Creative Nonfiction Award, Recipient
Pushcart Prize, Nominee ("Guesswork" via Red Savina Review)
2016
Linda Julian Creative Nonfiction Award, Recipient
Pushcart Prize, Nominee ("A Place Called Place" via Emrys Journal)
Essays, Poetry, Fiction (abridged list)
Essay, "Lost Sister Lyric: As If You Were Here," Still Point Arts Quarterly, 2025
Poetry, "Wall Hanging," and "In a Cloud," Vita Poetica, Autumn 2023
Fiction, "Acts," Lowestoft Chronicle, Issue #56, December 2023
Essay, "Drift in the Midst of Place," Still Points Quarterly, September, 2023
Essay, "Some Risk," Bookends Review, Fall 2023
Essay, "An Essay, Probably on Aging," Talbot Spy (Delmarva Review, reprint), July 2023
Fiction, "Linguist," Bright Literary Review, November 2022
Essay, "First Time Again," The Woolf (Switzerland), Issue 3
Essay, "An Essay, Probably on Aging," Delmarva Review, Fall 2022
Essay, "Rumors of Death and Beauty," trampset, June 17, 2022
Prose poem, "Challenge, You," Backchannels, March 2022
Essay, "Shambala: Mythical City of the Heart," Epoch Press (Scotland), print
Essay, "So What Do You Think About Cows, or, A Lingering Grief," The Big Windows Review (Washtenaw Community College, Ann Arbor, Michigan), October 2021
Flash essay, "The Rural Chronicles: Love," Persimmon Tree, 2021
Essay, "Twelve Rural," Freshwater Literary Journal (Asnuntuck Community College), print, Spring 2021
Essay, "A Clock Tower Keeps Its Seconds Even When the Bells Forget to Ring," Sierra Nevada Review (Sierra Nevada University), print, Spring 2021
Flash, Midway Journal, July 2021
Essay, "In the Beginning," Minnow Literary Magazine, Winter 2021
Essay, "Topography," Lumiere, Spring 2021
Flash essay, "Ancestry," Whale Road Review, Spring 2021
Prose poem, "On Not Forgetting," Backchannels, January 2021
Flash essay, "Brave Enough to Be Beautiful Along the Crust of a Sighing Globe," TIMBER (University of Colorado-Boulder), Issue 11.1
Essay, "Twenty Rural" (reprint), Turtle Island Quarterly, Winter 2020/21
Fiction, "Who Took the Chip?" Lowestoft Chronicle, December 2020
Essay, "A Typical Week of Rural Disquiet," Unearthed (SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry), December 2020
Flash essay, "The Wild Gold Things," Bending Genres, forthcoming December 2020
Essay, "Waterfields," New World Writing, November 2020
Essay, "Field Marginalia," River & South Review (Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University), June 2020
Prose poem, "If You Think Grieving is Easy, You’ve Never Learned to Knit," Red Rock Review (The College of Southern Nevada), Issue 44, 2020
Essay, "The Fire Anthology," Delmarva Review, print, Volume 13 (November 2020), reprinted in The Talbot Spy
Prose poem, "Grief is Not a Hand Grenade Until the Pin is Pulled," Neologism Poetry Journal, March 2020
Prose poem, "Heaven: for Cindy," Third Wednesday Journal, Vol. XII, #4 (Fall 2019)
Prose poem (or flash nonfiction), "Fresh Fire," Mojave River Review, Summer 2019
Essay & Force Majeure Flash Contest 1st place, "The Importance of Air," Storm Cellar, June 2019
Essay, "A Rural Fall - 7 Days," Sonder Review, Issue 11, Spring/Summer 2019
Essay, "A Rural Spring - 10 Days," 2019 print, Slippery Elm (The University of Findlay, Ohio)
Essay, "Ten Rural," Issue 26, Summer 2019, Cleaver Magazine (Philadelphia's International Literary Magazine)
Prose poem, "On the Occasion of a Dying Sheep When Everything You Know About Rural Living is Never Enough," Summer 2019, MoonPark Review
Essay, "Eight on a Winter's Rural," Spring 2019, Cold Mountain Review (Appalachian State University)
Essay, "The Rural Chronicles - Junctures," 2019, Belletrist (Bellevue College, Bellevue, Washington)
Essay, "A Rural October - 8 Days," print, Spring 2019, Barely South Review (Creative Writing program at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia)
Flash essay, "A Week in Rural October," February 12, 2019, Passages North (Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI)
Essay, "A Country May - 14 Days," Mud Season Review, Issue 41, 2018 (Burlington, Vermont)
Essay, "A Rural June - Week 1," Ponder Review, 2018 (Mississippi University for Women - Columbus)
Essay, "A Rural Week in June" [week 2], Atticus Review, October 4, 2018
Essay & Pushcart Prize nomination, "A Sister Lyric: In the Finding of You," Citron Review, Fall 2018 (started by graduates of the MFA-Creative Writing @ Antioch U, Los Angeles)
Essay, "This Sudden Passing," Turtle Island Quarterly, 2018
Essay, "Lost Sister Lyric: Remembrancer," Atlas and Alice, May 28, 2018
Essay, "What the Land Teaches," Hedge Apple Magazine (Hagerstown Comm. College)
Essay, "Ten Days With the Rural Jesus," Jet Fuel Review (Lewis University)
Essay, "Little Alice, Are You Sleeping?," Issue 3.2, Winter / Spring 2018, Cowboy Jamboree
Essay, "A Rural Spring - 12 Days," Spring 2018, Red Savina Review
Essay & Pushcart Prize nomination, "Twenty Rural," Issue 202, Winter 2018, Cimarron Review (Oklahoma State U)
Essay, "Two Weeks in Rural November," Issue 11, Tahoma Literary Review
Prose poem, "Iowa's Promise," Issue 8, Panoply
Essay & Best of the Net nomination, "A Rural Spring - 14 Days," 2018, Portland Review (Portland State University)
Essay, "A Rural November - 16 Days," December 2017, Stonecoast Review (University of Southern Maine - Stonecoast)
Finalist, "Country Workweek," 2017 Proximity Magazine Personal Essay Prize (unpublished)
Flash essay, "A Rural Life," July 2017, Burningword Literary
Essay, "A Rural Chronology," Issue 8, 2017, Bacopa Literary Review
Award, 2017 Loren Eiseley Creative Nonfiction Award, Red Savina Review & Pushcart Nomination for "Guesswork"
Essay, "A Rural January - 15 Days," January 2018 Roanoke Review
Flash craft essay, "Lyric Is a Sound We Hear Beyond the Noise," April 2017, The Tishman Review
Essay, "A Rural December - 15 Days," February 2017, Gravel
Flash essay & Best of the Net nomination, "Five Days in the Iowan Outback," Winter 2017, Whale Road Review
Everything published before this approximate time often contained an author bio reflecting incorrect heritage information (hearsay), which a DNA test thankfully cleared up.
Essay, "Quietude," Winter 2016, saltfront
Award, 2016 Linda Julian Creative Nonfiction Award, Emrys Foundation (Emrys Journal) & Pushcart Nomination for "A Place Called Place: For Martin"
Essay, "Senescence in the Study," Vol. 1, Issue 4, 3288 Review
Poem, "Getting Religion," JuxtaProse (April 2016)
Essay, "A Place Called Place: Migrations," 2016, Soundings East (Salem State University - Salem, Massachusetts)
Essay, "A Place Called Place: Flux," Volume V, #1, Storm Cellar
Poem, "Yuma Sunrise," Spring 2016, San Pedro River Review
Poem, "Yellow Chalk," February 2016, Red River Review
Fiction, "Karsten," Issue 8, On the Rusk
2 Poems, "The Woman Ages" & "Holy Night," January 2016, Kentucky Review
Essay, "A Place Called Context," Spring 2016, Blueline Literary Magazine (State University of New York - Potsdam)
Essay, "Discovery in the Midst of Place," Winter 2017, Silk Road Review (Pacific University - Forest Grove, Oregon)
Essay, "In This Space," December 2015, Sandy River Review (University of Maine - Farmington)
Essay, "Fitting Into Place: For Martin," November 2015, Stirring
Essay, "A Place Called Place: Surrounds," December 2015, 3288 Review
Essay, "A Place Called Place: For Martin," 2016 (Issue 33), Emrys Journal
Essay, "The Muddy Divine," November 24, 2015, Burrow Press Review
Essay, "Sunset Strayed," Spring/Summer 2015, Prick of the Spindle
Essay, "Sixteen Sunsets," Spring 2015, Stoneboat
Fiction, "Years," Winter 2015, Dirty Chai
Flash hybrid, "To Make Heard," March 2015, Issue 3.1, *82 Review
Essay, "Drift," December 2014, Mulberry Fork
Essay, "With a View," December 2014 (Issue 3), Elsewhere
Essay, "Bury Me Deep," November 2014, Pithead Chapel (Michigan's Upper Peninsula)
Essay, "What Makes Up the Middle," Fall 2014, The Milo Review
Essay, "After All," October 2014, Decades Review
Essay, "What the Clouds Bring," Issue #7, Cleaver Magazine (Philadelphia's International Literary Magazine)
Essay, "Horizons and Such," Fall 2014, Prick of the Spindle
Creative nonfiction, "Drowning in Clarity," September 2014, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine (University of Arkansas - Monticello)
Essay, "First Light," 2014, The Mayo Review (Texas A&M University - Commerce)
_________________________________________________________________
Interview at The Roanoke Review
Interview at Mud Season Review
_________________________________________________________________
I'm also honored to have endorsed these books:
Carla Schwartz's Signs of Marriage. Poetry. 2022. "I can't seem to get away from the truth of 'Contemplating Humanity While Swimming'. It's such a startling piece of writing, the theme of it. We all have the capacity, I think, to do what we think we'd never do, what others would swear we'd never do. This poem captures that, the heinousness of possibility in being human."
Stephanie Dickinson's Razor Wire Wilderness. Nonfiction. 2021.
Ellen Stone's What is in the Blood. Poetry. 2020. "Stone is a master of detail and tight wording, and her themes of home, family, nature, and illness resonate in these selections. Both emotionally and linguistically, they re a treat to read even in the midst of their often-darker themes."
Biman Roy's Of Moon and Washing Machine. Poetry. 2019. "Biman Roy’s Of Moon and Washing Machine is a lovely collection of poems fusing nature, psychological insights, and the delightful flavoring of his East Indian heritage. Some are straightforward and others more surreal, but all bring to mind an interesting and curious mind that views the world with precision and, at times, a touch of humor. An engaging read!"
Matthew Babcock's Heterodoxologies. Nonfiction. 2016. "Simply put, Matt Babcock deserves to be read. In Heterodoxologies, we find unabashed revelation, candidness, wit, and a fastidious attention to detail in the (always gorgeous) language, and though Babcock learned in third grade that “memory is a disease,” these stories will resonate and remain. In the vernacular, WOW. Brilliant writing; great essays."
Stephanie Dickinson's The Emily Fables. Fiction. 2016. "All of Stephanie Dickinson's works are about language: taut, urgent, effervescent. Her extraordinary talent shimmies in the daylight of her paged ruminations, in the night of her haunting revelations. Reading Stephanie Dickinson is like being thrown back in time to a more careful, more erudite, era of writing rising off the wings of a brilliance seldom seen these days; maybe it's because her 'Emily' pieces speak of that gentler time. Yet next to Annie Dillard, I'm not sure I've met Dickinson's contemporary equal. Her works are all about the lucid, arresting turns of phrase that make language as surprising and re-readable as it should be."
