News

• I’ve just been appointed poet laureate of Bainbridge Island for 2026-27. For information about our monthly reading series at Bainbridge Public Library as well as my workshop at BARN, check out Bainbridge Island Poet Laureate links here, and our Instagram page here.

• 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 catch 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"