BELOW YOU’LL FIND a list of much of my published writing, with a number of links to samples. I plan to expand this to include earlier work, to continue adding new work after it’s been published, and to continue adding links, though the current offerings provide a good overview.
Fiction—Book:
Making Love While Levitating Three Feet in the Air: And Other Stories of Flight. Nacogdoches, TX: Stephen F. Austin State University Press (in press, forthcoming in March 2016).
Fiction—Short Stories:
“Checkout” originally appeared in Story
“The Woman Who Came from the Earth” originally appeared in Pacific Review
“The Pub” originally appeared in Fourteen Hills: The San Francisco State University Review
“A Husband and Wife Are One Satan” originally appeared in Potomac Review (link will take you to a YouTube clip of me reading the opening of this story)
“Aceldama (An Allegory)” originally appeared in About Place Journal
“Maps and Compasses” originally appeared in Homestead Review
“Znamenskaya Russkaya Pravoslavnaya Tserkov (The Holy Sign Russian Orthodox Church)” originally appeared in Fjords Review
“The Cat People” originally appeared in Fjords Review (and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize!)
“Ball and Chain” originally appeared in Little Patuxent Review
“Making Love While Levitating Three Feet in the Air” originally appeared in The Pinch
“Clean” originally appeared in Controlled Burn
“Wing Walking” originally appeared in Arroyo Literary Review
“A Story of My Very Own” originally appeared in Cantaraville
“Little Murders” originally appeared in Rosebud Magazine
“Learning to Fly at the End of an Empire” originally appeared in Bayou Magazine
“The River” originally appeared in Crab Orchard Review
“She Was a Winter” originally appeared in Eureka Literary Magazine
“The Great Silver Cactus of Driggs, Idaho” originally appeared in Lake Effect (and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize!)
“Accomplices to a Tradition” originally appeared in Rosebud Magazine
“Every Living Thing That Moves” originally appeared in Isotope: A Journal of Literary Nature and Science Writing
“Nuclear Toughskins” originally appeared in Many Mountains Moving (as winner of their 2005 Flash Fiction Contest!)
“Stars” originally appeared in The SFWP Journal
“The Priest” originally appeared in Rock & Sling: A Journal of Literature, Art, and Faith
“Going for Broke” originally appeared in Scent of Cedars: Promising Writers of the Pacific Northwest
My Writing
Above is a clip of me reading the opening to my short story “A Husband and Wife Are One Satan” as part of the Soul-Making Literary Competition awards program in San Francisco.
Nonfiction—Creative Nonfiction:
“A Dacha in Kazakhstan” originally appeared in Ontologica
“Within Timur’s Empire: Uzbekistan Journal” originally appeared in Potomac Review
“Place as Self” originally appeared in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
“Wrules of Righting” originally appeared in Journal of Compressed Creative Arts
“Notes to Self When Writing” originally appeared in Journal of Compressed Creative Arts
“Ships in the Desert” originally appeared in New Madrid (and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize!)
“View From a Bridge” originally appeared in Etude: New Voices in Literary Nonfiction
“Holy” originally appeared in Rock & Sling: A Journal of Literature, Art, and Faith
“Itam” originally appeared in A Life Inspired: Tales of Peace Corps Service
“The Missionary Position: A Personal Exploration of the Politics of Persuasion in Central Asia” originally appeared in Rock & Sling: A Journal of Literature, Art, and Faith
“Silk Road Tales” originally appeared on the CD-ROM Peace Corps in Central Asia
“A Day in the Life: Kazakhstan” was published by the U.S. Peace Corps
Poetry—Chapbook:
Lake, and Other Poems of Love in a Foreign Land, published by Standing Rock Cultural Arts, Kent, OH
Poetry—Poems:
“New Channel” is forthcoming in Forest Under Story: A Decade of Creative Inquiry in an Old-Growth Forest (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2016)
“Late Winter, Lookout Creek” is forthcoming in Kudzu House Quarterly
“Black Friday Morning” originally appeared in About Place Journal
“Too Often We Think” originally appeared in About Place Journal
“Shotpouch Creek” originally appeared in Elohi Gadugi Journal
“Ars Poetica” originally appeared in Soul-Lit: A Journal of Spiritual Poetry
“Building Forts.” originally appeared in The Fourth River
“A Tree, Leaves the Color” originally appeared in Assisi: An Online Journal of Arts & Letters
“Frost Kills Leaves” originally appeared in Assisi: An Online Journal of Arts & Letters
“Andrei Rublev” originally appeared in Assisi: An Online Journal of Arts & Letters
“A Saint Is a Sentinel” originally appeared in Assisi: An Online Journal of Arts & Letters
“Book of Lights” originally appeared in Clackamas Literary Review
“Book of Lights,” forthcoming in Clackamas Literary Review
“Bon Voyage!” originally appeared in Verseweavers
“An Extended Beatitude for the Twenty-First Century” originally appeared in About Place Journal
“Still Life” originally appeared in Qarrtsiluni (click on link and select audio to hear me reading this poem)
“Meditation” originally appeared in Assisi: An Online Journal of Arts & Letters
“Past Lives Through the Mail” originally appeared in The Los Angeles Review
“Address” originally appeared in Protestpoems.org
“Memo to Potential Donors from a Nongovernmental Organization in a Corrupt Developing Country” originally appeared in Protestpoems.org
“Little River Almanac” originally appeared in Blue Earth Review
“Lake” originally appeared in Permafrost
Book Reviews:
Review of Earle and Rhoda Brooks’ The Barrios of Manta: A Personal Account of the Peace Corps in Ecuador (Belmont, CA: Untreed Reads, 2012) was published by Peace Corps Writers
Review of Kevin G. Lowther’s The African American Odyssey of John Kizell: A South Carolina Slave Returns to Fight the Slave Trade in His African Homeland (Columbia: The University of South Carolina Press, 2011) was published by Peace Corps Writers
Review of Peter Chilson’s Disturbance-Loving Species (New York: Mariner Books, 2007) originally appeared in Washington State Magazine
Interviews (selected):
“Digging In: Wendell Berry on Small Farms, Local Wisdom, and the Folly of Greed” originally appeared in The Sun
“Breaking Down Barriers, Rattling Cages, and Shaking Foundations: An Interview with Ray Browne” (co-conducted with Jay Smith) originally appeared in This! Magazine
“A powwow with filmmaker Jonathan Wacks” originally appeared in Boise Weekly
“Striking the mother lode: an interview with filmmaker Nancy Kelly” originally appeared in Boise Weekly
Feature Stories (selected):
Not Just Blowing Smoke: ‘Smoke Signals’ Reveals a Star on the Rise | A New Look, with Love, at Janis Joplin | Paying the Muse: When Good Intentions Result in Bad Poetry | Where Poetry and Design Meet | Poet’s writing reflects her deep Israeli roots | Gary Burghoff uses stardom to promote environmental issues
Academic:
Differences Between the American and Kazakhstani Higher Education Systems: How Understanding Them Will Aid the Current Educational Transition | Introducing Critical Thinking into the EFL Classroom | Using Creative Writing in the EFL Classroom
Reviews of My Writing:
Review of my chapbook Lake, and Other Poems of Love in a Foreign Land by Peace Corps Writers
Review of “The Priest” as an Editor’s Choice in Rock & Sling
Review mentioning “Going for Broke” in The Eugene Weekly
Judge’s comments on “Nuclear Toughskins” in Many Mountains Moving