Honors

ANTHOLOGIES

for Campfire Stories, Vol. 2 (forthcoming 2023)"Wonderland of Rocks"

Changing Tides, a Pact Press anthology

“Postcards from My Future Self: Beverly Beach, Florida,” (2020)

MEMOIR AND ESSAY

for HerStry

“Dangerous Curves” (February 2021)

for Memoir

“When Grandma Went to Pakistan,” (January 2019)

for Beecher’s (now known as Landlocked)

“The Tour” (Fall 2018)

for Past Ten

“June 13, 2008” (June 2018)

FLASH

for The Masters Review

"Christmas Markets, Strasbourg, France" (June 2024)

for Wanderlust Journal

"U-Turn" (June 2022)

for "Beautiful Things" from River Teeth Journal "Last Night in Billings, Montana" (Oct 2022)

for Passages North

“Postcards from My Future Self: Oregon Coast” (January 2020)

for Brevity

“Postcards from My Current Self: Faith Evangelical Church, Summer 1975, Billings, Montana” (May 2019)

for Mom Egg Review

“Turning,” personal essay,  (April 2019)

for The Sun

“When I was six…” in “Reader’s Write” (March 2019)

for Cargo Literary blog

“Postcards from My Future Self: Winter Storm, Oradell, New Jersey” (March 2019)

for Linea 

“Drunk Lotus” (January 2019)

for Storm Cellar

“Postcards from My Future Self: Hurricane Mills, Tennessee” (Winter 2019)

for Midway Journal 

“Postcard from My Future Self: Inland Empire” (October 2018)

for *82 Review (September 2018)

“Postcards from My Future Self"

"New Orleans, Louisiana"

"Tucumcari, New Mexico"

"Chimney Rock State Park, North Carolina"

for Wanderlust

“Postcard from My Future Self: Spain” (August 2018)

ESSAYS AND REPORTAGE ON WRITING

for AWP The Writer's Notebook

“I Wanna Be Rich: On the Financial Realities of Writing” (June 2019)

for Submittable.com

“Zero to One Hundred Fifty: Lessons Submitting This Year” (December 2018)

for Submittable.com

“What Happens in Vegas” (November 28, 2018)

for Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies

AWP Conference Reports (March 2018)

“Truer Words Were Never Spoken: On the Challenges of Writing About Family in Creative Nonfiction/Memoir” 

“The Historical Women: Reimagining Past Narratives Through the Contemporary Female Perspective”

“The Enhanced Memoir: When It Happened to Me Isn’t Enough”

EXPERTISE COLUMNS

for SavvyAuntie.com

“For Valentine’s Day, Love Yourself” (February 11, 2014)

“Encouraging Tech Savvy Nieces” (November 27, 2013)

“6 Ways to Encourage Positive Body Image in Kids” (October 8, 2013)

“If Your Shot Is Off, Shoot Until You’re On Again” (June 12, 2013) 

“Confidence 101: Learning to Say, ‘I Belong Here'” (May 13, 2013)

“A Letter to My Niece as She Grows” (February 26, 2013)

“Using Technology and Auntie Power to Stay the Course” (January 26, 2013)

“4 Ways to Give Back During the Holidays” (December 24, 2012)

“ABC’s of Gratitude for Aunties” (November 13, 2012)

“Lessons from a Niece: How to Handle Bullies” (October 23, 2012)

for startup Beforewedo.com

“To Trust or Not to Trust: That Is the Question” (May 14, 2013)

JOURNALISM

for The OC Register

“Cinderellas for Life” (April 27, 2006)

“Love Letters Still Tell the Story” (May 4, 2006)

“It’s Beginning to Smell a Lot Like Thanksgiving” (November 17, 2005)

“Dinner on Duty” (November 17, 2005)

“Freeway Chase Ends at FV Gas Station” (May 4, 2006)