I’m a writer. My latest essay collection, The World Is On Fire: Scrap, Treasure, and Songs of Apocalypse, was a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year. My debut collection, The Wet Collection: A Field Guide to Iridescence and Memory, was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award. My essay “What the Body Knows,” about rafting the Canning River in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, won a Pushcart Prize. My essays have been published in The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, Orion, Oxford American, Poets & Writers, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. In 2020, I received an Individual Artist’s Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

This website is the place to be if you want to know more about my literary life. You’ll find links to pieces I’ve published, information about my books, dates for forthcoming readings and workshops, and more. Welcome.