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Select Published Works
Nature Stuff
“Fantastic Trees and Where to Find Them…” Salt Lake City Weekly, Sept. 21, 2022 (cover story)
“You’re Stuck Inside, but the Birds Aren’t…” NPR’s WAMU, April 2020
730DC’s Not a Swamp seasonal guides: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
730DC’s Alternative Cherry Blossom Guide
“The Stories Behind DC’s Christmas Trees 2019” DCist, December 2019
“Where to Find the Most Unusual Trees in D.C.” DCist, June 2019
Fiction
“The Space of Noise” Two Hawks Quarterly, Spring 2021
“Last Bloom” So It Goes: Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library, November 2019
“Green Numbers” Flash Fiction Magazine, May 2018
“Apples” Country Roads Magazine June 2014
“Dig a Sheet-rag a Hole” Fiction Southeast 2016
Creative Non-fiction
“Whittling Wood” Torrey House Press – Voices Rising, November 2020
“The Lesson My First Crush Taught Me…” The Washington Post, February 14, 2019
“Pissing at the Women’s March” Medium, Jan. 2017
Find more personal essays of mine on Medium
Articles/Journalism/Food & Beer Writing
“&pizza Feeds Federal Workers During Shutdown” QSR Magazine, February 2019
Asian Beer on Tap, FSR Magazine, January 2019
“What to Expect from Red Bear Brewing…” DCist, October 2018
“Strange Brews in DC”, DCist, September 2018
“Mexican Murals in DC” DCist, August 2018
“As Craft Beer Booms, This DC Brewpub is Happy Staying Small” DCist, August 2017
“Will Bike for Beer” Edible New Orleans, April 2015, (pg. 21)
“Brown Derby Superstore” Mid-City Messenger May 2014
“End of a Mirage” Where Y’at, January 2014
“Alternative Mardi Gras Krewes” Where Y’at, March 2014
Member of charter school reporting corps for The Lens from 2013-14
News contributor to NOLA Defender from 2013-14
Poetry
Lockdown drill – District Lines Volume IV, Winter 2017
A New Hammock – Peeking Cat Poetry Anthology 2018
Reviews
Music: Diana and Austra, Where Y’at, September 2013
Music: B.B. King, Where Y’at, January 2014
Notables
Nominated for best story in environmental writing at Utah Headliners chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) in 2023.
Taft-Nicholson Center Artist-in-Residence, Summer 2022
Outstanding Seminar Paper award, Fall 2020, University of Utah’s Environmental Humanities
Finalist in Iowa Review Award for Non-fiction in 2018 for “Lockdown”
Inner Loop Reading Series’ Writer of the Month for April 2017 and frequent contributor
Finalist in Ernest Hemingway Flash Fiction Prize in 2016 for Fiction Southeast for “Dig a Sheet-rag a Hole”
1st place in The Country Roads first-line fiction contest in 2014. “Apples”
Finalist for NYC Midnight Flash Fiction Challenge 2014
Writer for Where Y’at, Nola Defender and The Lens from 2013-2014, FSR Magazine from 2018-19, DCist from 2017-20, 730dc from 2019-20