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Publication List

“More than Human Points of View" Sierra, June 24, 2024

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"Yes, and ... Talking Wings, Queer Ecologies, and the Rights of Rivers" terrain.org, Earth Day, 2024

 

"Is Your Kitty Like This?” Under the Sun, 2023

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“On the Hairline Fringe” River Teeth, 2022

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“Eclipse.” Whitefish Review 27 Summer/Fall 2022

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“Dear Poet Friends.” Oregon East, Spring 2022

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“How Wildlife Sightings Create Community.” High Country News, Sept. 15, 2021

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“What If? The Art of Speculation in Creative Nonfiction.” Writer’s Chronicle. Fall 2021

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“Supple.” in The Madrona Project Volume 2:1 Keep a Green Bough. Summer, 2021

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“If only I could tell my Black nephew not to be scared.” Seattle Times. July 31, 2020

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“Out of the Box.” Camas. 2020 (reprinted in Ambersand.)

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Review of One Long River of Song by Brian Doyle. Terrain.org. April, 2020

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“Massacre.” Fourth Genre. 2020

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“Untangling Environmental Stories.” Brevity. Sept. 20, 2019

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“Grounded and Discomfited: Women in the West” — a review of I Am a Stranger Here Myself by Debra Gwartney.” River Teeth. July 2, 2019

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“Empathy in Every Direction.” The Writer.  Summer, 2019

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“The Unfolding.” Grist: A Journal of the Literary Arts 12, 2019

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“The Lawns, So Well-Tended.” terrain.org, Spring 2019

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“The Streetlight Glow.” Smokebox.net. Summer, 2018

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“Confessional Roots.” Hotel Amerika. July, 2018

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“What Would You Do If the World Was Ending?” with Laura Pritchett. High Country News, Nov. 13, 2017

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“Fire One, Fire Two.” River Teeth, Volume 19, No. 1, Fall 2017

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“On Brian Doyle’s ‘How We Wrestle is Who We Are'” Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies,  Issue 4.1. Fall 2017

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“Pierce.” High Desert Journal, Issue 25. Fall 2017

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“Post-Strayed.” Under the Sun. Summer 2017

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“Letter to America” terrain.org Nov. 21, 2016

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“So Many Rings.” The Normal School, Volume 9, Issue 2. 2016

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“Here in the WUI.” Sierra online, Sierra Sept. 7, 2016

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“Unpeopled Places.” High Country News, March 7, 2016

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“The Tree in the River.” High Country News, January 25, 2016

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“The Exact Same Place.” High Country News, September 2015.

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“The Essay in Parts” with Steve Harvey, Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, Fall 2015

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“Homeland.” Soundings Review, Summer 2015

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“The Fiddler on the Rock.” Fort Collins Magazine, Summer 2015

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“Hope Without Hope.” Ecotone, Spring 2015

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Review: The Map of Enough by Molly Caro May. Orion, Jan/Feb. 2015

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“Away From Shore.” High Country News, August 4, 2014

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“10 Remedies for Cabin Fever.” Orion. March/April 2014

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“What Happened in Humbug Valley.” Creative Nonfiction: Sustainability. Spring, 2014 *finalist The Human Face of Sustainability essay contest

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“The Low Ground and the High Ground.” Cutbank, 2013

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“The Hole in the Snow.”  Breckenridge Magazine, Winter 2013

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“The Story of Gimpy.” High Country News, September 2, 2013

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“Fifty Miles.” Smokebox.net, 2013

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“10 Skills to Hone for a Post-Oil Future.” Orion, May/June 2013

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“Silver and Sinewy.” Portland, Spring 2013

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“Love Wins.” High Country News, January 21, 2013

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“North Fork Bridge.” Smokebox.net Spring 2013

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“How to Brine an Elk Steak.” Portland, Winter 2012

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“From Weed to Home.” Oregon Quarterly,  Winter 2012

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“The Right Trib.” High Country News, November 26, 2012

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“Where You’d Rather Be.” Under the Sun, Summer 2012 *listed as notable in Best American Essays 2013

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“The Housesitter.” Breckenridge Magazine, Summer 2012

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“Crush.” Brevity, Spring 2012 *nominated for a Pushcart Prize

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“Life List.”  Matter 14: Animal, 2011

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“La Linea.” (Excerpt.) Smokebox.net 62. 2011

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“When We Talk About Courage.” Cirque, Winter 2011

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“The Boss and the Lawn.” Bellingham Review, Autumn 2011

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“Slide.” Mountain Gazette, October 2011

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“Don’t Forget.” (Excerpt.) Portland, Autumn 2011

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“Saw Chips in My Bra.” (Excerpt.)  Oregon Quarterly, Autumn 2011

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“Pass the Populism.” (Excerpt.) Utne Reader, Sept. / Oct. 2011

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“Gone Native.”  Greenwoman: A Literary Garden, Summer/Fall 2011

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“Just Right Here.” (Reprint.) Breckenridge Magazine, Summer 2011

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“Breathe.” Inlandia, Summer 2011

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“A fire lookout in the wilderness speaks of our past.” Writers on the Range, July 7, 2011.

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“Winter Flood.”  Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments 27: Entropy, Spring/Summer 2011 *nominated for a Pushcart Prize

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“The Sign Maker.” High Country News 43.6 April 18, 2011

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“Slow Connection.” Smokebox.net 60, Spring 2011

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“Re-Entry.” Mountain Gazette 175, January 2011

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“Snapped.” Mountain Gazette 174, December 2010

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“Grace Behind Glass.”  High Country News 42.19, November 8, 2010

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“Erosion.” Matter 13: Edward Abbey, June 2010 *nominated for a Pushcart Prize

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“Spawning in Mud.” (Reprint) Writing Nature, 2010

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“Drive That Hummer.”  High Country News 42.2, February 1, 2010

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“Spawning in Mud.” Watershed 7, Spring/Summer 2009

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“Christmas Naked.” Mountain Gazette 162, December 2009

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“Living on Glacial Time.” High Country News 41.16, Books and Essays Issue, September 14&28 2009.

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“Caucus.” North American Review 294.3-4, May-August 2009

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“The Dictionary Reader.” High Country News 41.14, August 17, 2009

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“The Seam.” Under the Sun, Volume XIV, No. 1, Summer 2009 *listed as notable in Best American Essays 2010

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“Just Right Here.” Oregon Quarterly, Summer 2009

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“Natural Comfort.” High Country News 41.10, June 1, 2009

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“The Fall Line.” Mountain Gazette 151, February 2009

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“Real Work.” High Country News 40.21, November 10, 2008

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“The Beatles Drive,” The Rambler, September/October 2008

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“The Lost Art of Backyard Cloning.” Mountain Gazette 145, July 2008

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“Staying Put.”  High Country News 40.4, March 3, 2008

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“Hello Kitty Rules.” Mountain Gazette 138, December 2007

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“Word Share.” Oregon Quarterly, Winter 2007

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“Sand-Calloused Places.” Mountain Gazette 135, September 2007

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“Thirteen Percent Catholic.” Pilgrimage 32.1, Spring 2007

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“Erasing the Stone.” Mountain Gazette 127, October 2006

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“What’s Heaven without a Gate?”  Weber Studies, Spring/Summer 2006

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“Lost and Found.” Mountain Gazette 120, January 2006

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“This, Jack London Reminded Me.”  Mountain Gazette 118, October 2005

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“Potluck.” Open Spaces: Views from the Northwest, Volume 8 Issue 1 2005 *nominated for a Pushcart Prize

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“La Linea.”  Pilgrimage 30.2, Summer 2005

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“The Temperature of Water.” Oregon Quarterly, Winter 2004

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“Children of the Woods.” Weber Studies, Fall 2003

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“Everywhere But Here.” Orion, July/August 2003

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“Long Distance.”  Sport Literate, Father’s Issue, Summer 2003

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“Fire Ban.” Oregon Quarterly, Summer 2002 *winner Northwest Perspectives essay contest

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“Red Tape and Yellow Stickies.”  Fine Homebuilding, Spring/Summer 2002

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“Knocking it Back.”  Backpacker, May 2002

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“Now Go Home.”  Open Spaces: Views from the Northwest, Volume 3 Issue 2 2000.

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“Doing Without.” (Reprint) Utne Reader, July/August 2000.

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“Doing Without.”  Orion, Winter 2000.

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“The Tourists in my Yard.” Talking River Review, Winter 1998

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“Writing in Place: An Interview with Pam Houston.”  Thin Air, 4, 1998

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“Wilderness, Homelessness, and the Crosscut Saw.” Kinesis, March 1997 *winner If It Moves essay contest

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Fiction

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“How the World is Made New.” In Stories From Where We Live: Pacific Northwest Coast.  Edited by Sara St. Antoine.  Milkweed Editions.  Forthcoming.

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“To the Top of the Word.” ColumbiaKids,  2011.

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“Under the Churn.”  Driftwood, Fall 2008.

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“If, in 1934, Everett Ruess Had Not Disappeared.”  Black Ridge Review, Spring 2004.

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“The History Tutor.”  Writers Forum, Volume 28, 2002.

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“Explanation of Benefits.”  Cimarron Review, Winter/Spring 1999.

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“Where the Springboard Set.”  West Wind Review 17th Anthology, 1998.

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“Like the Astronauts Did When They Landed on the Moon.”  Kinesis, April 1997.

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