News & Events
Reading for Whale Road Review's 10-Year Anniversary - December 13, 2025
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Last Saturday I was honored to take part in Whale Road Review’s 10th Anniversary online reading. It was wonderful hearing award-winning and nominated writers read their poems and stories. During the event, I read my creative nonfiction work, “On Learning That Yale Scientists Restored the Brain Function of 32 Dead Pigs,” from WRR Issue #29. The prose piece was nominated for a Best Spiritual Literature Award and a Best of the Net Award. You can listen to me read it on WRR's recorded Anniversary reading (my piece begins at 1:22:55). Thanks to Katie Manning for organizing the event, and thanks to all the participants! |
Reading for Whale Road Review's 10-Year Anniversary - December 2, 2025
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Fellow lit lovers! I am excited to be reading at Whale Road Review’s 10-year anniversary, happening on Zoom on Saturday morning, December 13th! I'll be reading alongside other poets and writers who’ve won or been nominated for work published in WRR. Please join us! It’s free to register, though you’ll want to do so in advance.
When: Dec 13, 2025 09:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Register in advance: https://pointloma.zoom.us/meeting/register/PKY9TZLxRAOC4hU1Fg7jVg See you there! |
Pushcart Prize Nomination for "Private Veneration," Creative Nonfiction - November 30, 2025
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I was vacationing over Thanksgiving vacation with my family when I learned that one of my creative nonfiction flash pieces, “Private Veneration,” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by The Account. It’s an honor, and also a surprise, as I’ve mostly focused on poetry in these recent creative writing years.
It’s been soul-fulfilling to count myself a part of this broad writing community. I start the day reading poems in my inbox, learning what art can be. This new recognition of my work by The Account editors feels affirming. I am grateful to know I'm at home here, supported by this community. |
Best of the Net Nod for "This Hand That Shakes" - September 17, 2025
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I was honored to learn that my prose poem, “This Hand That Shakes," received a Best of the Net nomination from Kitchen Table Quarterly. Thanks to the editors for the wonderful recognition, and congratulations to my fellow nominees: Philip Kenner, Suzannah Watchom, Michaela Mayer, Mohan Sikka, Darlene Taylor, Julyan Davis, and Ann Wong!
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Breadcrumbs named a semi-finalist for the Jeanne Leiby Memorial Chapbook Award - Feb. 5, 2025
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I'm grateful to the Florida Review for long-listing my prose chapbook, Breadcrumbs, for the 14th Annual Jeanne Leiby Memorial Chapbook Award. I'm honored to be among 14 other semi-finalists: Rocio Anica, Maeve Berry, J.A. Bernstein, Mary Kate Coleman, Mary Grimm, Christie Hodgen, Wes Jamison, Patrick Lawler, Brenda Miller & Julie Marie Wade, Samina Najmi, S. A. Renschler, Randolph Thomas, and Tanya Zilinskas. |
Yearlong in Poetry Reading - Thursday, June 20, 2024
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Thanks to Bill Carty, Hugo House, and all the former Yearlong in Poetry students for a great time at last night's reading! It was fun catching up with friends and hearing everyone's poems:) |
Yearlong in Poetry Reading - Wednesday, June 19, 2024
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I’m looking forward to reading my poetry at Hugo House this Wednesday, June 19th as part of a Yearlong in Poetry class reunion! Thanks to HH instructor Bill Carty for organizing! Come catch a bunch of poets in action this Wednesday night from 7-9pm!
Hugo House 1634 11th Ave. Seattle, WA 98122 |
Goddess Gathering Women's Event - Saturday, June 1, 2024
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It was so wonderful to be invited to read poetry from my book, Illuminated Creatures, and see friends, new & old, at the Goddess Gathering (“A Divine Experience of Feminine Creation for women only”) last weekend at a private gallery in Seattle's Pioneer Square. It was such a lovely event, full of inspiring artists, authors, musicians, and speakers:) |
Illuminated Creatures Book Launch II (Leavenworth) - Monday, November 6, 2023
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Thanks to everyone who came to The Plant Ally in Leavenworth for the Poetry Circle & Illuminated Creatures Book Launch. Many people shared poems, and also stuck around after my reading to have conversations with each other. I am in awe of this little town, of the willingness of people to show up with their open selves, and of the heart center that is @theplantally. Thanks to you all. |
Illuminated Creatures Book Launch (Seattle) - Thursday, November 2, 2023
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Thanks to everyone who attended the Seattle book launch of Illuminated Creatures at Water Sines Studios in Pioneer Square. It was an honor to read to you from my chapbook and to feel such support for the arts. Poetry can be such a heart-opener, changing how we talk to each other, and how we understand one another. Such good conversations followed. Gratitude. |
November Book Launch - Seattle (Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023) & Leavenworth, WA (Monday, Nov. 6, 2023)
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ILLUMINATED CREATURES has shipped! Please join me for its launch with special gatherings in Seattle and Leavenworth, WA. First, an art & music party on November 2nd, during the first Thursday Art Walk in Pioneer Square at Sidney Ji’s Water Sines Studio. I’ll be reading at 7pm, with Sonic Shiva starting to play at 8. Then, the following Monday, November 6th, I’ll be reading at The Plant Ally in Leavenworth, at 6:30pm (right after our local Poetry Circle at 6pm). Come celebrate poetry and community with us! |
2024 Pushcart Nomination from Finishing Line Press - Oct. 12, 2023
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Thanks to Finishing Line Press for nominating a poem of mine for a 2024 Pushcart Prize. "Everything I Love I Want to Consume" is my love letter to what moves us within and through this human existence. The poem is available to read here. |
Illuminated Creatures Now Widely Available - Oct. 17, 2023
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Illuminated Creatures is now available for purchase through Ingram Book Group (Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and others book sellers) as well as from publisher Finishing Line Press. |
Best of the Net Nomination from Whale Road Review - Oct. 1, 2023
Excited to share that Whale Road Review just nominated my short prose piece, "On Learning That Scientists Restored the Brain Function of 32 Dead Pigs," for a 2023 Best of the Net award—after also having nominated it for last year's 2022 Best Spiritual Literature Award! Thank you, WRR, for believing in my work. You can read the short piece on my website here, or on the Whale Road Review nominations page here.
Poetry Circle at the Plant Ally: Monday, July 10, 2023, 6:00-7:30pm
It’s Poetry Circle at the Plant Ally! Bring poems to read, whether they're yours or a favorite poet's. Meet other people who love poetry or just want to start exploring their creativity. We might have time for some writing, too, so bring pen and paper. Come and enjoy poetry, people, tea and elixirs surrounded by nature indoors.
Join us on Monday, July 10th, from 6:30-8pm. Contact: [email protected]
925 Commercial St,
Leavenworth, WA 98826
Local media coverage of Illuminated Creatures - Thursday, June 29, 2023
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The Leavenworth Echo shared news about my award-winning chapbook in their print and online editions. Read the coverage here. |
Papeachu Review Issue Five Release Party: Thursday, May 11, 2023, 7-10pm
I am excited to read and listen to prose and poems at Papeachu Review's Issue Five Release Party on Thursday, May 11th! It's a party celebrating the theme of COMFORT, so wearing pajamas is entirely appropriate:) If you're in Seattle, drop by Common Area Maintenance in Belltown to hear the six of us read, and stay for the open mic from 830-10pm. Thank you for supporting women and nonbinary readers!
2125 2nd Ave
Seattle, WA 98121
Poetry Circle at the Plant Ally: Thursday, April 20, 2023, 6-8pm
It's National Poetry Month! Come celebrate with Poetry Circle at the Plant Ally! Bring poems to read, whether they're yours or a favorite poet's. Meet other people who love poetry or just want to start exploring their creativity. Enjoy tea from the Plant Ally's tea room, surrounded by nature brought indoors.
925 Commercial St,
Leavenworth, WA 98826
2022 Pushcart Nomination from Papeachu Press - Nov. 30, 2022
Thanks to Papeachu Press for nominating a poem of mine for a 2022 Pushcart Prize. "Recovery Costume" is a pantoum poem published in their anthology, From the Waist Down: the Body in Healthcare (2022).