News

• I’ve just been appointed poet laureate of Bainbridge Island for 2026-27. Stay tuned for information about our monthly reading series at Bainbridge Public Library, with featured readers and an open mic.

• Some of my new work was shortlisted for The Alpine Fellowship Poetry Prize (2025).

• I’ve got three new poems in SWING magazine. You can read one of them here.

• You can watch me reading from Site for Cultivating Voices New Book Showcase, hosted by Sandy Yanonne, by following this link. I read at the 30 minute mark, but Sylvia Pollack, Lauren Russell, and Julie Marie Wade are fantastic—don’t miss them!

• Jessica Johnson and I discuss beginnings, grief, frameworks, and the poetry of Linda Bierds, to name a few things, in this interview up at Full Stop.

• Thank you to Monson Arts for residency support in April 2024. Writers and artists can apply by clicking here.

• Gabriela Denise Frank interviews me for Crab Creek Review and compares Site to a Rothko painting (!).

• Here’s a lovely conversation I had with Han VanderHart at Of Poetry Podcast.

• Mom Egg Review includes Site of Disappearance on their December 2023 Bookshelf; read Jessy Randall’s review here.

• Site of Disappearance featured in Foreword Review’s Nov./ Dec. 2023 issue, including the poem “My Father Wasn’t a Hunter.”

• Site of Disappearance is available now at Ornithopter Press! You can also order a personalized signed copy from Eagle Harbor Book Company—just leave a note on your web order or call with your information.

• Two new poems from Site of Disappearance up at Ron Slate’s On the Seawall.

• Listen to Betsy Aoki read my poem “The Day After Yesterday,” from Hover, on Spokane Public Radio’s Poetry Moment.

• Site of Disappearance named a finalist for the 2021 Alice James Award.

• Site of Disappearance named a finalist for the 2020 National Poetry Series.

• Runner-up for the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize, Site of Disappearance selected by Susan Howe for the 2020 Robert Creeley Memorial Prize from Marsh Hawk Press.

• These poems won Radar Poetry's 2018 Coniston Prize, judged by Martha Rhodes: "Investigation," "Archive," "I was told," "Ark," "My Father Wasn't a Hunter," "Origins"