NEWS:
One of five finalists for the inaugural Sedona Poet Laureate Program. We finalists are currently engaged in several readings through the month of April (National Poetry Month), with the Poet Laureate announced in May. 

One of two finalists for the Ellen Meloy Fund for Desert Writers (creative nonfiction). From the Award Committee Chair: "Your application and writing sample drew a very strong response from us, and we would love to see your application again at a later date, with the understanding that your project may well evolve in the coming months."  

My essay "Body Topography," published in The Dodge, was nominated for selection in the annual anthologies Best American Nature Writing and Best American Essays. 

As an arts journalist for 30+ years based in Minneapolis/St. Paul, I wrote for online and print publications from Hyperallergic to Dance Magazine, Architectural Record to RISE, Horticulture to Audubon, Public Art Review to Nature Conservancy. My work included criticism, news, features, interviews, and profiles. Dance, visual art, architecture and design, theater, music--I covered it all. I wrote the books The Dance Bible: The complete resource for aspiring dancers and Charles R. Stinson Architects: Compositions in Nature.  Essays commissioned by artists for their books include "Once Upon a Time..." Bedtime Stories: Sculptures Reimagined, an artist book by Rebecca Krinke; "To Catch the Fact: Vesna Kittleson's Self Portraits" Synthesis: Art by Vesna Kittleson; and "Odes for Etudes," the work of Moira Bateman. 

I now live on Hisatsinom (“ancient people,” Hopi), Yavapai, and Apache ancestral land in Northern Arizona, in a family house first owned by my Grandmother. I teach (online) Writing About Art to studio arts majors at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. I write poetry and creative nonfiction. My work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in The Dodge, Fugue Journal, Brevity Blog, Electric Lit,  Bridge Eight, Thin Air Magazine, HerStry, The Ekphrastic Review, and other publications. I also do arts journalism for Southwest Contemporary. In 2023, I received the Scuglik Memorial Residency in ekphrastic writing with Write On, Door County in Wisconsin.

I'm currently writing essays, and a  chapbook of eco-poetry that explores interactions with the more-than-human (mountain, stone, soil; coyote, snake, mule deer, scorpion; apricot, prickly pear) in search of a personhood co-sentient with the red-rock landscape in which I live.