I write essays, features, and flash nonfiction for a variety of magazines and anthologies, including AFAR, Brevity, Guernica, Electric Lit, Harvard Review, The Iowa Review, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Ms. and Paste. I’m currently at work on my first book, living and working in Seattle, where I offer courses and private editing at Hugo House and online. 

Awards & honors include:

• Residencies at PLAYA Summer Lake, Hedgebrook, and Vermont Studio Center (VSC Fellow Full Fellowship)

• Editorial Board Member, Tufts University’s ReSentencing journal, which “seeks to represent and re-imagine the experience of imprisonment and freedom in the U.S.” through art, stories, poetry & essays by formerly incarcerated artists

• Best Women's Travel Writing 2020 & 2017

• Notable essays in Best American Essays & Best American Travel Writing

• Solas Awards Grand Prize for Best Travel Writing 2017

• Nominated by AFAR magazine for a James Beard Award

• First-place winner, The Missouri Review Audio Competition for prose

• Pushcart Prize Special Mentions for “On Modesty” and “Sirens”

• Grant awards from Artist Trust, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, and 4Culture