essays & memoir

Devour

2026 Best in Rural Writing - The Milk House

On a morning in March, for what might have been the fifth time in two years, I snoozed until 5:15. In bed, I agonized over whether I would keep the promise I had made to myself the night before: that this morning, I would skip my scheduled sixty minutes of power yoga. I would not skimp on my usual breakfast of one-half of a cup of oats, one-third of a scoop of protein powder, one handful of blueberries, and one tablespoon of pumpkin seeds.

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Awards & Publications

These Mountains Need No Romanticizing” - Adirondack Life Magazine - forthcoming

“Devour” - Where Meadows, Issue 2.1, July 2024

“The Right Kind of Rejection” - named Vocal Top Story (June 2024)

“Confronting What Scares Me” - named Vocal Top Story (March 2024)

“Readers don’t have to love you. Do you love you?” - named Vocal Top Story (February 2024)

“This Heaven We Have, Here” - awarded first place in the Vocal #200 Challenge (January 2024)

“Silence Killed My Spirit. Then, it Killed My Relationship” - Plan the Marriage Magazine