I’m so excited to be featured in Spoke+Blossom’s spring 2024 issue! Check out the article (on page 28) where I discuss some of the poems in my book, The Two Hearts Inside Us, and then pair it with a delicious cocktail.

I was excited to find out that the Beacon published an article about my book!

Come see me at the Holy Family Christmas Craft Fair at 786 26 ½ Rd. in Grand Junction, Nov. 4th 8 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.! I’ll be debuting my new greeting cards, frame-ready “poesters” (poems layered over photographs), and other gifts inspired by poetry from my book, The Two Hearts Inside Us. I’m giving away a free greeting card with every purchase!

A lot has been going on with The Two Hearts Inside Us!

Double the Bookstores

Out West Books in downtown Grand Junction, CO, is now carrying my book, doubling the number of bookstores it’s in! You can also find it at Lithic Bookstore & Gallery in Fruita, CO, and here on my website.

I’m so excited to share that Lithic Press has published a book of my poetry! It’s called The Two Hearts Inside Us and includes some of my favorite poems from the last twenty years.

I’m excited to be part of the upcoming “Words from the Wild” reading featuring five contributors to the journal Deep Wild: Writing from the Backcountry.

The free reading will take place at Out West Books in downtown Grand Junction, 533 Main Street, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Deep Wild editors Heidi Blankenship and Rick Kempa, and contributors Peter Anderson, Wendy Videlock, and I will read stories and poems inspired by our journeys on the Colorado Plateau and beyond

I was thrilled to find a lovely letter in my mailbox after Labor Day weekend telling me that my poem, “Hiking Rabbit Valley on Easter” had advanced to the second round of the Colorado Hearts and Minds Poetry Contest!

It’s day 60 of my residency at Mesa County Public Library, so it’s already over halfway done!

In that time, I’ve edited many poems in my book, (I should have

This was such a fun interview - thank you Bethany, Jessica, and Sean for having me on The Audissey podcast to chat about writing and being the artist in residence at Mesa County Public Library this spring!

I read 37 books in 2021, 13 more than I read in 2020! I credit this to the availability of audiobooks and using the Overdrive and Hoopla apps from the Mesa County Public Library, butI I still read books I hold in my hands, too.

I’m so excited to be the artist in residence at Mesa County Public Library this spring! I look forward to getting a lot of writing done and to meeting others who are as excited about writing as I am.

Friday the Mesa County Library and Western Colorado Writers’ Forum held an event to celebrate their anthology, In This Together: A Community Anthology.

I’m thrilled to announce that five of my poems are now out in Sixfold’s Poetry Winter 2020 issue! Click Read More below for a link to the issue.

I didn’t take as many, or any, notes while reading these books this spring (sometimes it’s nice to just read for pleasure), but I enjoyed them all:

In Stein on Writing, Sol Stein argues that the most important element of a story is character. He asks us to think of the novels we love most, and what we remember more clearly about them - the plot or the characters?

There are a lot of gems in The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr. I think it’s a good read no mater what genre you’re writing, and I recommend buying it or checking it out from the library. I will list some of her advice that I found helpful:

After my daughter and I watched both the 1994 and 2019 versions of Little Women, I wanted to learn more about Louisa May Alcott, so I read Louisa May Alcott by Susan Cheever and Tavia Gilbert.

I recently finished reading Washington by Ron Chernow. One of the many things I learned from the book was that Shay’s Rebellion was the crisis that highlighted the need for stronger national leadership, paving the way for the development of the Constitution and office of the president.

Here is a list of books I read and enjoyed in 2020: