My essays have been published in numerous places including Literary Hub, AEON, Oregon Humanities, Longreads, DIAGRAM, Terrain.org, Mid-American Review, Guernica, River Teeth, The Rumpus, and Bellingham Review among other publications. I have been awarded an AWP Intro Journals award in creative nonfiction as well as residencies and scholarships to Dorland, Sundress Academy for the Arts, PLAYA, Art Smith, Tin House, and the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference.

I have a BA in Environmental Studies from UC Santa Cruz and an MS in Environmental Studies and Writing from the University of Montana. I also hold an MFA in creative nonfiction from the Vermont College of Fine Arts.

My first book of nonfiction, Tracing the Desire Line, was published by Split Lip Press in 2019. It was selected as a finalist for the 2021 Oregon Book Award.

My next book of nonfiction, The Fire Trees, is forthcoming from punctum books. It’s a hybrid collection of essays exploring queer ecology, bodies, sexuality, and intimacy through autobiography, archival collage, reimagined histories, and philosophy.

I also write plays for a community theatre and playwright group, The Little Apple Players. The plays are written over the course of a year and performed in a rural barn in the Applegate Valley each winter.

I teach nonfiction in the MFA Creative Writing program at Eastern Oregon University, and work as an Assistant Nonfiction Editor at Terrain.org. I also teach in the Honors College at Southern Oregon University and work for the Southern Oregon University Foundation.