Prose

Featured Essays

Excerpt “Moon” of A Little Bit of Land in Terrain.org

Literary Mama May/June 2023: Lessons from Lambing Season

Ecopsychology June 14, 2022: Nature Writing As Solace: The Embodied Ecopoetics of Barry Lopez and Mary Oliver

Resettling of the Mind is a finalist for the Center for Interfaith Relations Sacred Essays.

The Poetics of Food Summer 2019 issue of Gastronomica.

On Motherhood & Milking in Taproot.


Op-Eds

Seattle Times :

December 29, 2024: Some notes on hope for the new year

September 16, 2022: We need to do more for our first-generation farmers–and fast!

October 8, 2021: To go or not to go: The future of travel might be at home

October 10, 2020: As we find solace in nature, it points the way to a better life

Brevity Magazine’s Blog:

Are You Too Young to Write a Memoir? October 28, 2022

One Writer’s Covid Holidaze December 6, 2021

Ag Daily :

January 27, 2023: Is Farm-to-Table a Farce? A Farmer’s Response to Chef Howard


Book Reviews

New York Times: Poems of Exile, Introspection and Self Discovery (Cicadas, Too)

Terrain.org: The Profuse Power of Flowers: A Review of American Wildflowers: A Literary Field Guide by Susan Barba, Illustrated by Leanne Shapton

Rain Taxi Review: Meltwater by Claire Wahmanholm and Curve by Kate Reavey

Terrain.org: Reimagining Borders, Redefining Place: A Review of Thin Places
by Kerri ní Dochartaigh

Psaltery & Lyre: Review of when I sing, mountains dance by Irene Solà

Tinderbox Poetry Journal: The Taste of Longing: A Review of How to Not Be Afraid of Everything by Jane Wong

Whale Road Review: What May Save Us: A Review of Hold Fast by Holly J. Hughes

Tinderbox Poetry Journal: Talking in Truths A Review of Dialogues with Rising Tides by Kelli Russell Agodon

Tinderbox Poetry Journal: Motherhood as Transformation A Review of Mother Country by Elana Bell

Orion Magazine: Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey by James Rebanks

Terrain.org: World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatahil

Tinderbox Poetry Journal: The Body As Belonging, A Review of Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz

Tinderbox Poetry Journal: The Art of Unearthing: A Review of Rick Barot’s The Galleons 

Empty Mirror: Finding Freedom in the Female Voice: Threed: This Road Not Damascus by Tamara J. Madison

Empty Mirror: Hope Amidst Uncertainty: Subduction by Kristen Millares Young

Flyway Journal: Book Review of Native Species by Todd Davis

Poetry Friday introductions for Image Journal


Interviews

Harbor Review: Mapping the Surreal-A Conversation with Susan Rich

Seattle Times Interview with Debra Magpie Earling about The Lost Journals of Sacajewea

Interview with Becky Mandelbaum for Village Books

Interview with Elisa Gabbart for New England Review-Behind the Byline

Interview with Elizabeth Austen for New England Review-Behind the Byline

Skagit River Poetry Festival Blog Interviews: Kevin Craft, Susan Rich, Kathy Fagan, Ellen Bass


Additional

Swan Specialists Group Newsletter April 19, 2023: A Poet’s Eye View of Port Susan Bay

Birth Stories in Deep Beauty: Experiencing Wonder When the World is On Fire  is AVAILABLE NOW!

Riverteeth’s Beautiful Things series: Excalibur