Education

• MFA, Creative Writing, Rainier Writing Workshop, Pacific Lutheran University, 2009
• B.A., American Studies, Whitworth University, 1992, summa cum laude

Current Positions

• Senior Development Writer, Whitworth University, 2008-Present
• Editor, Whitworth Today magazine, 2017-Present
• Craft Essay Editor, Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction, 2008-Present
• Creative Nonfiction Editor, Rock & Sling: A Journal of Witness, 2010-Present
• Creative Nonfiction Editor, Wandering Aengus Press, 2018-Present

Publications

• Chapter, Invisible Art: A Field Guide to Literary Editing (Bloomsbury Press, 2023)
• Essay, “If Swans Could Speak,” New England Review (issue 42.3, 2021)
• Essay, “Shadow Animals,” This Impermanent Earth anthology (University of Georgia Press, 2021)
• Memoir, The Solace of Stones: Finding a Way through Wilderness (University of Nebraska Press, 2016)
• Essay, “Shadow Animals,” The Georgia Review (2013); received a Pushcart Prize Special Mention

Online Publications

• “Water I Gladly Drank” Rock & Sling
• “Sweet Child, You Are Loved” Rock & Sling
• “Camp Elohim” How to Pack for Church Camp

Essays about Writing

• “Less Me, More We: Transforming the Personal into the Collective,” University of Nebraska Press Blog
• “Slow Down: Interrogating the Past Takes Time,” Brevity Blog
• “Skip the Cotton Candy: Writing Is Sweeter,” Rock & Sling Blog

Editing

• Copyeditor, In Praise of Inadequate Gifts, by Tarn Wilson (Wandering Aengus Press 2021)
• Copyeditor, Going Feral: Field Notes on Wonder and Wanderlust, by Heather Durham (Wandering Aengus Press 2019)
• Copyeditor, Washington 129 poetry anthology edited by Tod Marshall, Washington State Poet Laureate 2016-18 (Sage Hill Press 2017)

Selected Readings

• This Whitworth Life, “First Job,” Dec. 2018
• Listen to Your Mother Spokane, “These Words Are True,” May 2018

Other Literary Citizenship

• Manuscript Review, University of Nebraska Press, 2018
• Nonfiction Judge, Annual Kenai Peninsula Writers’ Contest, 2014
• Essay Contest Screener, Annual Artsmith Literary Award, 2008-2012

Teaching Experience

• Guest Instructor, English Department, Whitworth University:

EL-344 Personal Narrative
EL-347 Creative Nonfiction Writing
EL-348 Literary Editing & Design
EL-356 Environmental Writing
EL-444 Advanced Writing Workshop
EL-498 Senior Portfolio

Employment History

• Associate editor of Whitworth Today magazine, Whitworth University, 2009-17
• Public Information Officer & Assistant Editor of Whitworth Today, Whitworth University, 1998-2008
• Features Correspondent, The Spokesman-Review, 1998-99
• Court Reporter and Photo Archivist, The Spokesman-Review, 1995-98
• Editorial Assistant/Reporter, Journal of Business, 1994
• English Speech and Composition Instructor, Shikoku Gakuin University, Japan, 1993-94