This piece began as a 100-word story that got a warm rejection from Five Minute Lit: While “Five Months” wasn’t ultimately accepted, our readers had good words for the piece, including “well written” and “beautiful…
Category: Published
Bereavement Birds
Check out this artwork at What’s Your Grief: WYG Bereavement Birds
Have Book – Will Travel
Check out this collage I created with stamps my late father-in-law collected as a child: 805 Lit + Art
Summer ART
I collaged some photos from hikes in Maine and here in the Adirondacks, adding some watercolors. Rocks are cool. Here are two magazines that took my artwork in June: Libre Lit & Aureation Zine: Growing issue…
Kill Your Dragons
I found this magazine after looking through the contributors’ bios in the Awfully Hilarious Period Pieces anthology. Thank you, Lindsey Harrington! Dragons, in some form, was rejected a dozen times before the final draft was…
Some Facts About Cows
Many of my essays about grief, loss, and healing are tied up with my home, an old barn, in the mountains of upstate New York. Gotham Writers Workshop paired this piece with artwork by Nora…
Awfully Hilarious: Period Pieces
This project has launched! The e-book is available and you can order the paperback copy: Awfully Hilarious Project page My mom is the star in the essay featured in this anthology. She guides me…
(Re)published: Keep Going
In case you missed this one the first time, you can catch it in SugarSugarSalt Magazine. The real market: Cedar Run in Keene, New York. Visit! And, of course, North Country School makes an appearance.…
MUTHA Magazine
Well, I feel accomplished. I’ve admired MUTHA Magazine for a while. I sent them a hybrid piece, combining some sketches with my story of loss. It’s still a bit shocking to be part of a…
Language Arts
This is my jam: teaching and reading and dealing with grief. The hole in my heart is ever-present. I have to work. I have to go on. I have to write about it. This essay…