Other Writing
Nonfiction
My Wa Po piece on receiving my father’s 2020 mail-in ballot the day after he died.
Orion featured this piece about Jane Hirshfield’s poetry for our uncertain times.
Reflections on the hope brought by a burrowing owl population living on the grounds of a women’s prison, in the inaugural issue of Wild Hope: Field Notes and Images from Nature’s Front Lines.
The Best Buddhist Writing 2012, from Shambhala, featured an excerpt of Fire Monks.
In September 2012, when the San Francisco Zen Center turned 50, Shambhala Sun (now Lion’s Roar) published this profile.
Lucky me, I got to talk with Alice Walker and write about it for Lion’s Roar.
My 2006 profile of poet Jane Hirshfield for Tricycle.
Most of my Yoga Journal print magazine pieces aren’t available online, but here’s a feature exploring enlightenment and the spiritual path.
Short Fiction
Big Ugly Review
“My Butter Likeness,” chosen as the winner of the “And so it begins” contest by Tom Barbash
Poetry
My poem Belief was published in the Poets Against the War anthology, edited by Sam Hamill. I was deeply honored to be included in this collection alongside some of my writing heroes, too many to name them all, but including Jane Hirshfield, Adrienne Rich, Rita Dove, Terry Tempest Williams, and C.K. Williams.
My poems have appeared in:
- Sycamore Review
- Yellow Silk
- Poet Lore
- Willow Springs
- New Orleans Review
- Iris
- Whiskey Island Review
- Spoon River Poetry Review
- The Hollins Critic
Works in progress:
THE EDGE OF US is a novel about a woman who’s coming to terms with the death of her best childhood friend, many years later. It’s an exploration of the bond between young girls and how that bond can be imperiled as they become women. It’s about the long and unpredictable arc of grief and the cruelty—and kindness—within the human heart.
VITALINE uncovers the life of a woman who leaves her husband and four children in Detroit in 1918 and works in the thriving illegal liquor trade.
THE PROBLEM OF HAPPINESS, a memoir-in-fragments, is about moving from New Orleans to Beijing with a depressed boyfriend and unacknowledged grief in tow. It was a finalist in the 2025 AWP Award Series.