Publications

“The Power of I am Sorry,” My Life, Newsweek, September 5, 2008. Available online here. 

“Fury Cannot Touch Me,” Modern Love, New York Times, September 29, 2011. Available online at NYT

“Prepare a Place for Me,” Precipice, The Literary Anthology of Write on Edge, 2012. Available for purchase on Amazon.

“The Wire” published as “My Illegal Abortion,” Salon.com, August 26, 2012. Available online at Salon.

“The Visit,” Precipice, The Literary Anthology of Write on Edge, 2014. Available for purchase on Amazon.

“Mother Mining, Finding the Vein of Gold,” April 25, 2014. Available for purchase on Amazon.

“Blindsided,” Red’s Wrap, December 3, 2014. Winner 2015 BlogHer Voice of the Year.

“If This, Then That: Reflections on Adoption,” Mamalode, December 10, 2014.

“Wearing My Kindness Like a Coat,” Mamalode, June 30, 2016.

“Dear Starbucks Barista,” Cries for Justice, Poems for Dontre Hamilton, Art Night Books, 2016.

“How to Transport a Thanksgiving Turkey,” Dead Housekeeping, November 15, 2017.

“Billy,” Lake Effect, WUWM, Milwaukee Public Radio, March 21, 2018. (Essay and audio available here.)

“The Prayer March,” Fredericksburg Literary and Art Review, Spring/Summer 2018, Vol. 6, Issue 1

“The Dog of Our Hard Times,” Creative Wisconsin Anthology, 2018 Jade Ring Winners, Wisconsin Writers Association, 2018.

“Crop Tending,” Wisconsin People and Ideas, 2019 Jade Ring Winner for Humor Writing, Wisconsin Writers Association, Summer, 2019.

“At the Breakfast Bar,” Lake Effect, WUWM, Milwaukee Public Radio, February 21, 2020. (Essay and audio available here.)

“The Parish Hall,” Lake Effect, WUWM, Milwaukee Public Radio, May 27, 2020. (Essay and audio available here.)

“My Face, My Beautiful Face,” Lake Effect, WUWM, Milwaukee Public Radio, August 4, 2020 (Essay and audio available here.)

“The Night I Met Jimmie,” Lake Effect, WUWM, Milwaukee Public Radio, September 10, 2021 (Essay and audio available here.)

“Margaret’s Billy,” Creative Wisconsin, Wisconsin Writers Association, March 2023, 21-23.

“Snow Door,” Wisconsin People & Ideas, Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters, Summer 2023 (2022 3rd place winner for fiction).

“Grady and Irene,” Creative Wisconsin, Wisconsin Writers Association, September 2023, 49-51.