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Poet, publisher, and editor. Selected books, publications, talks, and writing.
Books & Anthologies
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POETICS Podcast
by Bainbridge Island Press
POETICS Summer Workshop
Instructor — five-session poetics seminar, Bainbridge Island Press
Bainbridge Island Press
Founder / CEO, poetry publishing house
Named top in poetry among Writer's Digest's 101 Best Websites for Writers, 2026
Poetry on the Salish Sea
Producer & faculty — Centrum, Port Townsend
Poetry Corners
Anthology
Ars Poetica WA
Director — arspoeticawa.com
Madrona Beach Project
Poetry Chair — Seattle, 2024–present
Alumnae-i Network for Harvard Women
President, 2023–2026
Writing
New Verse Review A Review of Pastorals by Rachel Hadas
La Rotonde Review Ode to the Line
Poems for Persons of Interest On the Dock of Ogygia
Liberties Journal How Would a Man Write About a Salmon?
The Zinnia Press Wet Winged Creature; Fig Jam; A Potato Poem
Poems for Persons of Interest Do Not Log Off That Good Site Tonight (Dylan Thomas parody)
As It Ought to Be Magazine Persephone's First Day Out
Ultramarine Literary Review I, Apricot
Stafford Anthology Metamorphosis
Poems for Persons of Interest The Forest's Gospel
New Verse Review Objects May Appear
Paddler Press Without a Map; The Water of the Yuba River
The Galway Review Actually; Odysseus, Mixed Media; Erupt; Impostor Syndrome Starts with I; Seawater
Salmon Creek Journal The Word Looked Like Chartreuse
Ars Poetica About a Frog
Stanza Cannon Stirring Mushrooms
Poetry Corners Waterfront Chickens
The Future of Us A Mother's Song
Oregon Poetry Association Bee Eaters Honorable Mention
Livina Press, Issue 3 The Handless Maiden
The Airgonaut Barometer
Sad Girls Lit Club The Caller
Island Theatre 10-Minute Play The Raven in the Woods
CSUEB: Occam's Razor Seizure
CSUEB: Occam's Razor Penumbra Deosculation 1st Place
Speaking & Readings
Forthcoming
Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers
Twenty-Ninth Annual Conference · The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore · October 22–25, 2026
“The Engine of the Turn: Peripeteia and the Problem of the Mid-Length Poem”
Seminar 22, The Golden Mean: How Mid-Length Poems Sustain Lyric or Narrative Momentum, moderated by Sunil Iyengar.
Saturday, October 24, 9–11:00 AM · Seminar Session III
Presenting alongside Brian Brodeur (Indiana University East), Mary R. Finnegan (Wiseblood Books), Paul Franz (Royal Military College of Canada), Rachel Hadas (Rutgers University), Sunil Iyengar, John Talbot (Brigham Young University), and Michael Theune (Illinois Wesleyan University).
Oregon Poetry Association Featured workshop
POETICS Summer Workshop Instructor — five-session poetics seminar
Benedictine College — 15th Annual Symposium on Transforming Culture Who Gets to Shout: Gender and the Exclamation Mark in Poetry Atchison, KS
The Rainier Club Catharsis: Why We Need Poems That Make Us Cry
Centrum — Poetry on the Salish Sea The Language of Love: A Valentine's Day Poetry Reading, Wheeler Theater
Awards
Oregon Poetry Association Bee Eaters Hon. Mention
CSUEB: Occam's Razor Penumbra Deosculation 1st Place
Profile Pages
Interviews
The Island Wanderer
On Poetry, Writing, and Bainbridge Island Press
Dancing With Fireflies: SeaWeed
Essays
Scary Mommy
5 Parenting Conversations I Am So Done With
Ravishly / Scary Mommy
School Is in Session: 5 Lunches I'm Eating Alone
Ravishly
3 Things That Make Parenting Harder
Ravishly
The Writer's Struggle
Ravishly
Motherhood and Impostor Syndrome
YourTango
I Have a Mom Butt and You Know What? That's Fine!
xoJane
Quit Asking Invasive Questions About Homeschooling
Role Reboot
5 Conversations I Don't Want to Have
Inside Bainbridge
10 Tips for California Transplants