This, All This was the first “real” essay I ever wrote. It started as a blog post about a day out hunting with my dad and became an article when my uncle suggested sending it to a friend he had at Backcountry. I couldn’t believe it was real when I first held it. You can buy the issue here.

I wrote Hunter for the first ever graduate-level class I took. I owe a lot to that class—I learned so much, and it showed me the place that I really belonged (with my writing community). On the suggestion of my professor, I submitted it to Riverteeth and got the acceptance when I was in Safeway (I cried!). You can read it here.

I started watching Bojack Horseman with an ex—it wasn’t my favorite show, but I felt compelled to watch (a little like a trainwreck). It was only after I’d been invited to contribute to this zine (now award-winning!) that I realized one character in particular had had a huge impact on me. You can read about my journey with Princess Carolyn in Is It Just Me, or Are We Nailing This?

2019 was not an easy year for me—I was struggling with some significant anxiety and an insistent low-grade depression, while also becoming deeply fascinated by herons. You can read my essay about it in Herons on Entropy.

A flash nonfiction piece I wrote about a stained glass woman I used to see on my commute to work when I was in my mid-twenties. Read it on You Might Need to Hear This.