Essays & Other Publications

"The Family Plot" (memoir) from The Sun

"The Treadmill Journal"  (craft essay) from The Writer

"Breaking the Conventions of Memoir"  (craft essay) from The Writer

"They Can’t Always Get What They Want: A Checklist for Character & Conflict Revision" (craft essay)
               from The New Writer's Handbook, Scarletta Press

"Sawdust & Poetry" excerpt from the 2005 National Cowboy Poetry Gathering Keynote Address

Listen to the Keynote  (This link takes you to the Western Folklife Center Archives. Scroll Down to the 2005 NCPG Program. The introduction begins after about seven and a half minutes of opening remarks.)

"The World of Silence" (fiction) from Storyquarterly

"Learning Your Language" (poem) from Image

"Hugh Brody's THE OTHER SIDE OF EDEN" (review) from Orion

"Macular Degeneration" (memoir) from North Dakota Quartlerly

"Cutting the Snow" (memoir) from Creative Nonfiction