Publications and Grants

BOOKS

Dear Alice:  Letters Home from American Teachers
Learning to Live in China
Berkeley, CA: Institute of East Asian Studies, 1998

CREATIVE NONFICTION

Sailing Between Sea and Sky: What I Learned from the Ocean about Life on Earth
Finalist in Trail to Table & Wandering Aengus Press Writing Contest (March 2025)

"Everything Moves"
Catamaran Literary Reader issue 30 (Fall 2020)

"Ice Nirvana,"
North Coast Squid, number 6 (Spring 2018)

"Empty / Full"
North Coast Squid number 5 (Fall 2016)

"Light"
Honorable Mention for Narrative Nonfiction, Oregon Writers Colony Contest (2016)
Broadside for Coconino Center for the Arts' NightVisions V exhibition, Flagstaff, Arizona (September 2014)

"In Praise of Empty Space"
First prize for nonfiction in the High Desert Dispatches writing contest, Flagstaff Cultural Partners (July 2013)
Excerpt published in Mountain Living magazine (November 2013)

"Rock and Cloud"
The Noise arts & news magazine (May 2011)


JOURNALISM

"Credit for Art"
The Noise arts & news magazine (April 2012)

"The Square Fish That Gets Around"
Cruising World (May 1990)

"The Uncommon Mola"
Oceans (July 1985)

"Sailing Through Mud"
Cruising World (Fall 1984)

Reporter
Sun-Bulletin newspaper, Morro Bay, California, 1985-86.


GRANTS

Spring Creek Project’s Blue River Writers Gathering for nature and environmental writers
Oregon State University H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, Cascade Mountains, Oregon (September-October, 2016)

Collaborative Artists' Residency with Rachel Wilson
Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site, Ganado, Arizona (September-October 2012)

Soapstone Writing Retreat
Portland, Oregon (January-February 2004)