Creative
Non-Fiction
“Creative nonfiction is the literary equivalent of a tightrope walk: it must be true, but it must also be artful.”
- Lee Gutkind
Publications
Folio Literary Journal
March 2026
Explores how ordinary, secondhand objects can reveal unexpected stories and personal truths.
The Rook Academic Journal
June 2024
Traces an intimate journey through teenage pregnancy and life inside an abusive family, revealing fear, resilience, and vulnerability with unflinching honesty and grit.
Table//FEAST
Forthcoming April 2026
This food memoir captures the humor and wonder of baking while revealing deeper truths about childhood and longing.
In review for the AWP 2026
Is a raw, unflinching braided essay that confronts sexual assault in Libby, MT, blending personal narrative with research to illuminate trauma and resilience.
Residue
Portfolio Review
Traces the accumulation of shame, through jealousy, sexual exploration, and projection, braiding personal narrative and research to examine how unspoken harm lingers and reshapes identity.
Call me Chaos
Portfolio Review
Traces a reckoning with disorder and identity, as the persona confronts chaos as both a survival mechanism and a self-made mythology.
Manastash Student-Led Literary Journal of CWU
forthcoming 2026
Offers a cultural critique of toxic tabloid media, examining how women’s bodies are surveilled, shamed, and distorted, and how those narratives shape self-worth and identity.
Regenerate
Portfolio Review
Braids personal reflection with geology and ecology, exploring bodily regeneration through Helena’s lake systems, tree root networks, and insect life to consider how healing occurs beneath the surface.
The Mother Plant
The Mother Plant uses the resilience and propagation of plants as a living metaphor for survivors of childhood abuse, tracing how adaptation, fragmentation, and regrowth become strategies for survival.
Recovery: Inheritance of an Unhinged Mother
Examines the inherited damage of having an unhinged, toxic mother, tracing how women carry, resist, and recover from the emotional legacies of their childhoods. Through intimate reflection and collective insight, it explores recovery not as erasure, but as the conscious re-shaping of what was passed down.
Eternal Echos
Moves through the fleeting moments of motherhood—the firsts and lasts that arrive quietly and pass just as quickly—revealing how time, memory, and love echo long after the moment itself is gone.
My Mother Taught Me to Pray
A braided essay moving through three stages of life, tracing how faith, family, and identity shift over time. By weaving memory, belief, and inheritance, it examines how religion shapes—and is reshaped by—the evolving relationship.
