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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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Finding Your Form When Writing about Food

Online through Orion Magazine’s Writers’ Workshops, Wednesdays May 13 – June 17, 5-8 pm EST/2-5 pm PST. Formal constraints aren’t just arbitrary rules that give writing shape and rhythm. They’re restrictions that can set our writing free. When we’re struggling to begin a work of food-focused nonfiction, how do we find the right form? How can forms associated with food, like the recipe or the menu, be used as invitations to experiment? How might formal constraints guide us toward the fullest expression of our art? In this workshop, we’ll take a close look at three forms: the recipe, the flash essay, and the braided essay. We’ll read essays from writers who play with form and food in interesting ways, like Samantha Irby, Rebecca Solnit, Jiao Tong, Joe Wilkins, and Maya Jewell Zeller. We’ll consider how we might invent forms of our own. And we’ll write.

Classes will be discussion-based and generative, with time to share work. Students will leave class with one complete draft of an essay and multiple starts for new pieces.

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 open now through June 1.

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.