Writing

Selected Writing (Links)

I write creative nonfiction, fiction and poetry, much of it rooted in the Mojave Desert. The works below offer a small sampling of my prose, poetry, and hybrid writing published online.

• "The Weight of Our Choices: A Meditation on the Ruining of Blud Diamond Hill" — essay, The Desert Companion

• “Bella” — short story, The Dodge

• “Dispatch from the Heart of Paradise” — blog essay, Nevada Humanities Double Down Blog

• “Zzyzx” and “The Air Field” — prose poems, Interim

• “Where Is the People’s Solar?” — essay, The Nevada Independent

• “When Is a Review Not a Review?” — essay, Desert Report

• “Song of the Desert: An Ode to Nipton, California” — lyrical essay, Desert Report (p. 18)

Publications

Literary Publications

• “Bella” — short story, The Dodge (October 2025)

• “Onto the Land” — essay, Adroit (forthcoming, Spring 2026)

• “Tecopa Road” — essay, Las Vegas Writes (Nevada Humanities, October 2024)

• “The Point at Which Subtraction Takes Over” — poem, Interim Magazine (March 2025)

• “Starfast” — poem, Interim Magazine (March 2025)

• “The Air Field” — prose, Interim Magazine (Winter 2019)

• “Zzyzx” — prose, Interim Magazine (Winter 2019)

• “In Joshua’s Arms” — poem, They Said (Black Lawrence Press anthology, 2018)

• “[[[[LION]]]]” — poem, The Denver Quarterly (Winter 2016)

• “Andrew” and “Song of Inside” — poems, The Bitter Oleander (Fall 2011)

• “Varanasi” — poem, The Bitter Oleander (Spring 2012)

• “The Apples” — poem, The Bitter Oleander (Fall 2012)

• “The Black Widow” — poem, The Bitter Oleander (Spring 2013)

• “The Way In” — poem, The Bitter Oleander (Fall 2014)

• “Tiger Island” — short story, The Bitter Oleander (Spring 2015)

• “About a Yellow Ball” — poem, Skidrow Penthouse (2013)

• “A Place as Vast and Dry” — poem, Skidrow Penthouse (2013)

• “Oranges” — poem, Skidrow Penthouse (2013)

• “Riviera” — poem, The Chariton Review (Fall 2014)

• “Hot Pot” — photograph, Juked (2011)

• “Oysters” — poem, Birdfeast (Spring 2014)

• “The Pioneer” — poem, Birdfeast (Spring 2014)

Public Writing & Popular Publications

• “The Weight of Our Choices: A Meditation on the Ruining of Blue Diamond Hill” — essay, The Desert Companion (February 2026)

• “Dispatch from the Heart of Paradise” — blog essay, Nevada Humanities Double Down Blog (September 2024)

• “Where Is the People’s Solar?” — essay, The Nevada Independent (January 2022)

• “When Is a Review Not a Review?” — essay, The Desert Report (September 2022)

• “Song of the Desert” — essay, The Desert Report (December 2021)

• “Mo-ja-ve” — poem, The Desert Report (May 2021)

• Interview with poet and translator Donald Revell — Las Vegas Seven (November 2013)