OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Nonfiction
“Migrant Outreach in Rural Oregon,” Oregon Nurse, Spring/Summer 1990
“Community Health Representatives Take on New Direction,” Sqip-N’ Mut, August 12, 1994
“Out of Alcohol,” Sqip-N’ Mut, Dec. 22, 1994
“Learning the Circle,” Connections, Lewiston, Idaho, Spring 2001
“The Good Red Road,” Ascent, Moorehead, Minnesota, Fall 2002
“Empty Nest” #1, MaryJanesFarm Magazine, www.maryjanesfarm.com, Oct. 2002
“Empty Nest” #2, MaryJanesFarm Magazine, www.maryjanesfarm.com, Nov. 2002
“Empty Nest” #2 reprinted in MaryJanesFarm Magazine, vol. 3, July 2003
“The Good Red Road,” reprinted in the anthology Forged in Fire, Mary Clearman Blew and
Phil Druker, eds., University of Oklahoma Press, April 2005
–featured essay, “Listeners’ Bookshelf,” Montana Public Radio, May 10-11, 2005
“Basic Nostalgia,” Manifest West 5 Anthology, Western Press Books, Sept. 2017.

“None of the Above,” Room: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action, 2.21 issue.

“Back,” The Art of Touch: A Collection of Prose and Poetry from the Pandemic and Beyond, Joan  Schweighardt and Faye Rappaport DesPres, eds., University of Georgia Press, 2023

Poetry
“Slave Labor,” The Work We Do, Blue Heron Arts Commission, Vashon Island, Washington,
April 1994
“Merriment,” Word of Mouth, Penhaglion Page, Llangholan, Wales, May 1998
“Glenda the Good Witch,” Aura Literary Arts Review, May 1999
“Sack Lunch,” The Advocate, Plainsville, New York, October 1999
“Thank Goodness There Were No Bats in the Belfry,” Voices on the Wind, June 2003
“On the Occasion of Reetika Having Cut Herself,” Voices on the Wind, September, 2003
“How to Hang a Wet Paint Sign,” Voices on the Wind, September, 2003
“American Beauty,” Meghbarta, March, 2004
“American Made,” Meghbarta, March, 2004
“A Philosopher of Cousins,” Meghbarta, March, 2004
“At a Bar in Spokane,” Meghbarta, March, 2004
“Blank Prescriptions,” Meghbarta, March, 2004
“Claire de Lune,” Meghbarta, March, 2004
“Ethnic Cleansing,” Meghbarta, March, 2004
“Galactica,” Meghbarta, March, 2004
“Hybrid,” Meghbarta,, March, 2004
“Maturity,” Meghbarta, March, 2004
“Rebirth, Repast,” Meghbarta, March, 2004
“Stewards of Time,” Meghbarta, March, 2004
“This is 1999,” Meghbarta, March, 2004
“On Bark,” Honorable Mention, poetry competition, Pacific Northwest Inlander, Aug. 25, 2005 edition

“Road,” chapbook, Lewis-Clark Press, Lewiston, Idaho, January 2006
“Ode to a Giftless Cowboy,” Voices on the Wind, January, 2006
“Poem for Joy,” Voices on the Wind, January, 2006
“Strange Dark,” Voices on the Wind, April, 2006
“Having Abigail,” Voices on the Wind, April, 2006
“Poet’s Creek,” Voices on the Wind, July, 2008
“Ten Hawks,” Voices on the Wind, July, 2008
“Blood in our Halls,” Teaching as Human Experience, anthology, Dr. Patrick Blessinger, ed., Cambridge Scholars Publishing, April 2015

“The Power is in Your Pulse,” ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action, selected by Diane Seuss, Holy Myers, ed., 10.20.20 issue.

Fiction
“Only the Very Ancient,” winner Just 99 short fiction contest, Boise Weekly, Boise, Idaho,
October, 1999
“Man Without a Mirror,” Connections, Lewiston, Idaho, January, 2000
“Almost Plum,” Northwest Edge: Deviant Fictions, Lidia Yuknavitch, ed, Two Girls Press,
Portland, Oregon, August, 2000
“Blackjelly,” Ascent, Moorehead, Minnesota, Winter 2001
“Hugging Robert Redford, Talking River Review, Lewiston, Idaho, Spring 2002
“Cherries,” Northwest Edge: Fictions of Mass Destruction, Lidia Yuknavitch, Trevor Dodge,
and Andy Mingo, eds., Chiasmus Press, Portland, Oregon, November, 2003
“Pajamas in the Moon,” Gargoyle, Washington, DC, Issue 50, May, 2005
“Elvis the Mule,” Northwest Edge III: The End of Reality, Lidia Yuknavitch and Andy Mingo,
eds., Chiasmus Press, Portland, Oregon, July, 2006
“Cattle Need to Roam to Graze,” Knock, Antioch University Seattle, Issue 10, November 2008
“Chemo, Then Gainesville” Spilt Infinitive Literary Magazine, Portland, Oregon, Issue 1, Vol. 4,
Dec. 2013; to be reprinted in Spilt Infinitive 2013 Anthology, release date Feb. 2014
“Caroline Picked Up a Piece of Paper on the Playground,” Spilt Infinitive Literary Magazine,
Portland, Oregon, Issue 1, Vol. 4, Dec. 2014; reprinted in Spilt Infinitive 2013 Anthology,
Feb. 2014
“Somebody Should Have Scolded the Girl,” Perceptions Magazine of the Arts, Spring 2014,
Portland, Oregon, publication date May 1, 2014
“A Certain Kind of Warrior,” The Raven Chronicles, Spring/Summer 2016

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