This page showcases some of my creative writing. I think of myself as a fiction writer first, but I've also published book reviews and blog posts.
The Woman Next Door
"I don't leave the house, except for Sundays, of course, but church is God's house, so it doesn't count as getting away. Father told the school he decided to homeschool me, and even though there were only three weeks until the end of the year, no one in the office raised question or complaint. They are used to things like this from my family, and from the others who attended my church's school through eighth grade."
genre :: short story
Review of Mother and Child, by Carole Maso
This book review of Carole Maso's Mother and Child was published by The Collagist in February of 2013. It looks at a new novel by one of my favorite authors and explores Maso's representation of the parent-child relationship.
genre :: book review
A Rare Bird
This is an experimental piece I wrote in response to Carole Maso's Ava. In it, I attempt to mimic Maso's style while also analyzing various related academic works. In this work, I showcase careful attention to the beauty of language and also offer an insight into the more artistic side of my brain.
genre :: experimental academic essay
Perfect Working Condition
Shortly after finishing my graduate program, I was asked to serve as a writer and editor for bark, a new arts and culture blog published by current and former students of my graduate program at Eastern Washington University. In this role, I wrote a weekly column and served as the editor for four other writers and their columns. The site has since gone offline, but this is one of the columns I wrote for that blog, pulled from the Wayback Machine. It connects my experiences after receiving a concussion to those of my grandfather as he began to suffer from dementia.
genre :: blog post