Poetry
Publication: The Cascades in Winter , in Ellen Rice’s project: Naked Came a Fungus, 2020
Publication: Sixty, More Truly, More Strange, an Anthology of Poetry In Augmented Reality, 2019
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Shortlisted: You Search for Irish Houses, A3 Review’s August 2019 contest
Honorable Mention: My Life as a Damascene Sword, Passager Journal Poetry Contest, 2019
Publication: The Virgin Considers Dusk, Bellingham Review, 2019
Winner: Sixty Four Best Poets of 2018, Black Mountain Press and The Halcyone Magazine
Manuscript: Heavy as Ripe Pears, being submitted to publishers
Publication: Burning Through Dreams, The Laurel Review, June 2018 issue
Publication: Directions for a Writer, The Passed Note, Issue 7, June 2018
Publication: The Disappearance of Poems in Rain, Typishly, December 11, 2017
Readings: Traditions Monthly Poetry Open Mic, Olympia, Washington
Reading: VoiceCatcher / Spring 2017 poets at Ford Food & Drink, Portland, Oregon
Reading: Port Townsend Writer’s Conference 2017—The Green Cottage Poems
Publication: As Heavily as Ripe Pears, VoiceCatcher, Spring 2017
Reading: Northwest Writer’s Workshop, Port Orchard, Washington, 2016
Reading: Florey’s Book Company, Pacifica, California, 2014
Reading: Copperfield’s Bookstore, Calistoga, California, 2012
Reading: Sawyer’s News & Books, Santa Rosa, California, 2008 & 2009
Readings: Napa Valley College, Upper Valley Campus, St. Helena, 2000—2007
Publication: When Fingers of Rain, Yellow Silk, 1982
Reading: Upstart Crow & Co., Sausalito, California, 1978
Reading: The Tides, Sausalito, California, 1972
Reading: Modern Times Bookstore Collective, San Francisco, 1971
I’ve been published in The Laurel Review, Bellingham Review, VoiceCatcher Journal, and Typishly, among others. I received an Honorable Mention in the 2019 Passager Journal Poetry Contest, and was selected as one of the “Sixty Four Best Poets of 2018” by Black Mountain Press and The Halcyone Magazine. I’m a member/participant of the following—
- Academy of American Poets
- Ongoing writing workshops
- Open Mic Readings at Olympia Poetry Network, Cascade Poetry Group, Puget Sound Poetry Connection
- Port Townsend Writers’ Conference (poetry), Northwest Writer’s Retreat (poetry), Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conferences, Puget Sound Guitar Workshop (songwriting)
- Social media: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter
I hold MFAs in Creative Writing and Fine Arts, which have played out as working in the Napa Valley wine industry for 20 years, as well as gallery representation. Many of my poems explore ways of finding what female agency and power look like in mythology and history, as well as meditations on how to love what perishes, and how our lives resemble and differ from animals, insects, and other cousins. I live in the Pacific Northwest with my musician partner, a rather large Maine Coon cat, and nine miles of books.