Publications
Essays, articles, book reviews, and more!
Featured in Mount Tamalpais College Newsletter
“The Wrong Way to Fight Homelessness.” The Progressive, Oct 6, 2025.
“If Not Here, Then Where? When Unhoused Residents are Swept Out of the City.” End of Life Studies Blog, Sep 17, 2025.
“Making the Personal Universal: Incorporating Research into your Creative Practice.” Brevity Blog, Aug 19, 2025.
Quoted in “Unclaimed bodies honored at Pierce, King county ceremonies.” By Clair Bryan, The Seattle Times. Jun 1, 2025.
“Making the Personal Universal: Incorporating Research into your Creative Practice.” The Brevity Blog, Aug 19, 2025.
“Raising Awareness on Public Disposition Programs.” Field Notes, Collective of Radical Death Studies, 3 Feb 2025.
“Remembering the Forgotten: The Space that Remains” Pangyrus, Creative Nonfiction Contest Finalist 2022. Published online and in the print anthology NEXT: Visions Toward a Less-Divided America.
“Sweet Feet” The Missouri Review, 2022 Perkoff Prize Finalist.
“Deaths of Disparity” The Massachusetts Review, Vol LXII, No. 3, Fall 2021.
“Too Poor to Be Dead: Dignified Dispositions for All” Co-wrote/presented paper for Death, Dying and Disposal 2021 Conference. https://www.deathandsociety.org/pages/ddd15-conference.php.
“Indexing the Life & Death Experience of Homelessness.” Portland Review, Spring 2021.
“How We Speak About Homelessness” University of Glasgow End of Life Studies Blog, June 2021.
“Dancing with Death…And Reading, Writing, and Talking with it Too” – Hunterian Museum Blog, University of Glasgow, 2018.
“How Can Death be the Great Equalizer in the Face of Inequality?” University of Glasgow End of Life Studies Blog, Feb 2018.
“Evaporate,” Metafore Literary Magazine, p. 76, Spring 2019.
“Pushing Up Mare’s Tails: Using Creative Writing and the Essay to Argue for Access to the Good Death & Dignity in Death for All.” Paper presented at the Centre for Death and Society (CDAS) at the University of Bath, June 2018, http://www.bath.ac.uk/cdas/documents/cdas18_book_of_abstracts.pdf.
“Book Review” of The Gay Science: Intimate Experiments with the Problem of HIV by Kane Race, in Sociology of Health and Illness, Wiley, May 2018, ISSN 0141-9889, pp. 1-2, doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.12750, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-9566.12750.
“Observations from a first Reading & Writing Death Workshop,” University of Glasgow End of Life Studies Blog, Feb 2018.
“Pushing Up Mare’s Tails,” Cemetery Travel: Adventures in Graveyards Around the World, Feb 2016
“ABCs of Creative Nonfiction: F is for Flash Nonfiction,” Spry Literary Journal, July 2016.
“Greetings from Fresno,” a working memoir was long-listed for Mslexia’s 2014 Women’s Memoir Competition, Fall 2014.
“When Zombies Attack,” From Glasgow to Saturn, Issue 33, p. 35, March 2014.