Essays
O Lurida! On beauty, wealth without riches, and Olympia oysters in Orion Magazine.
Two Kinds of Dough in The Spokesman Review
A Mystery or a Problem or a Garden in The Spokesman-Review
The Recipe Writer’s Dilemma in Cake Zine
Knowing Your Roots in The Inlander
Heart is Where the Home is in The Spokesman-Review
The Carrot Cake Queen of Spokane in The Inlander
A Place You Went to Eat in The Inlander
Pit of Despair. An excerpt of The Book of Difficult Fruit in Harper’s Magazine.
A Secret, Symbolic History of Pomegranates. An excerpt of The Book of Difficult Fruit on Literary Hub.
This is Our Birth Announcement. 2020 tried to drown us with fear and rage and resentment; it also produced this perfect new person. Published by The Inlander.
Someone Else’s Dream House. On losing a home, staying put until it kills you, Mt. St. Helens, and what Gaston Bachelard has to say about loving a garret. Published by The Gettysburg Review.
The Loudproof Room. On listening through hearing loss. Published by the New England Review and anthologized in Best American Essays 2015, edited by Ariel Levy.
The Unsealed Ear. A follow up to “The Loudproof Room.” Faith healing, western medicine, and what miracles might sound like. Published by the New England Review.
Twenty Three Pieces of the Sunset Bowl. On gentrification, bowling, grouchy neighbors, and other civic mysteries. Published by The Rumpus and anthologized in Ghosts of Seattle Past, edited by Jaimee Garbacik.
Poems
Ecotone: Rose of Sharon (or, Sonnet Missing Two Lines Because the Baby Has a Cold)
Alaska Quarterly Review: Vernal, Sonnet Missing One
swamp pink: Sonnet for a Spring Fever, I Explain Quarantine to My Unborn Child
Seven Prayers to Cathy McMorris Rodgers, a chapbook of poems to flip the fifth district of Washington State and elect Lisa Brown. Published by Entre Rios Books in 2018.
Poetry Northwest: A Prayer to Cathy McMorris Rodgers for the Right Reasons to Wed
Blood Orange Review: A Prayer to Cathy McMorris Rodgers for Intercession on My Behalf
Blood Orange Review: A Prayer to Cathy McMorris Rodgers for More Cake
Willow Springs: A Prayer to Cathy McMorris Rodgers for the Preservation of My Health Insurance
Bellingham Review: Something Will Happen That You Cannot Control
Bellingham Review: You Want To Lie Down Until the Weather Clears
Gastronomica: Rhubarb, the Green Age
Kate Lebo 