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Jam for Beginners in The Inlander

Sauce is the Whole Point in The Inlander

The Answer is Ricotta in The Inlander

Elegy for the End of Days in Nine Mile

Some Conditions Under Which I’ll Make Stuffing in The Inlander

Three poems in The Georgia Review

Three poems in SWING

Ways of Singing in New England Review

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But How Do We Know? (Creative nonfiction class through Orion Magazine)

We don’t, or we kind of do. We know that if our essays are easily summed up, we’re missing something. We know that if we end with the idea we started with, we’ve failed. As creative nonfiction writers, how can we build our authority while embracing the essential mystery of our work? How do we become conscious of our limits and biases, find the holes in our expertise and memories, and use them to create greater risk and meaning?

In this class, we’ll examine the different strategies writers use to create authority while not-knowing. We’ll explore how trusting and questioning ourselves can deepen intellectual honesty, personal vulnerability, and artistic surprise. We’ll consider how writers like Jamaica Kincaid, Helen Garner, and Anthony Bourdain engage with certainty and doubt. And we’ll practice moving forward in our work even (especially!) when we don’t know where we’re headed. Classes will be discussion-based and generative, with time to share work. By the end of our six weeks together, you’ll have one complete draft of an essay and multiple starts for new pieces.

Meets on Tuesdays from 3-6 pm PST starting October 13 and ending on November 17. Applications now open.

Writers on the Farm

At Quillisascut School of the Domestic Arts, August 12-16, 2026. Food is an essential part of the shared human experience, yet these connections fray when we do not acknowledge a food’s cultural ties or explore the bigger story about where our food comes from. How can we look beyond the merely delicious into something more complex, something that requires harder questions? What kind of food writing becomes possible when it is connected to ecosystems and farmers? In this multi-genre workshop for established and emerging food writers, students will deepen their explorations of food through personal narrative, firsthand experience, and research. We’ll discuss nonfiction, memoir, manifesto, fiction, poetry, folklore, and journalism, and we’ll write our own new work. Applications are now closed. To hear about the 2027 session, join my mailing list.

Pie School

Pie School is now in session at The Kitchen Engine in Spokane, Washington. Join me for an evening of flaky pastries, fruity fillings, and hands-on help with making the best pie of your life. Register here.