This spring, from Cascadia Publishing’s DreamSeeker Memoir Series– Martyrs and Chickens: Confessions of a Granola Mennonite. I’m so excited!
All the new photography on this site comes from an author photo shoot with the wonderful Tiffany Showalter in preparation for the new book.
My poor, neglected author blog! Here are a very few highlights from the past decade, available online:
Soft Target, new fiction published in 2023 at “Wrath-bearing Tree”, was inspired by the 2018 story of a school district arming its classrooms with buckets of rocks in case of a school invasion. You can read it as dark and dystopian, or as a sweet story about inclusion. Please know that my own daughters attend a lovely, inclusive, public elementary school where everyone is doing their best to include my daughter with Down syndrome and protect all kids from harm.
A few items in the Center for Mennonite Writing Journal: “Wives Like Us” (2019) inverts the Good Wife passage of Proverbs 31. “Woman Build of Stones: A Mother Tries to Write” (2023) gives a hint about where I’ve been all this time. And while we’re at the CMWJ, I’m not sure I ever posted this issue on Embodiment that I co-edited with the Shenandoah Valley Inkslingers in 2012. That’s not so long ago, is it?
For your patience, here’s a chicken!
Here are a few recent pieces.
