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

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My Writing

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