writing

“Totality,” short story, The Hopkins Review, April 2024–nominated for the PEN/Dau Award

the birth story of my daughter, a nonfiction essay in Birthing Magazine, Winter 2023

“Weaning in the Land of the Midnight Sun,” a nonfiction essay in Coffee + Crumbs, December 2021
“Slipped,” a nonfiction triptych in The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, March 2021
“Lullabying,” first place in the essay contest by Resource Center for Women & Ministry in the South, September 2020
“Carriage,” a 100-word true story on 100wordstory.org, January 2020
“Shelter,” a reader’s note in Ruminate, winter 2019/20, pp. 14-15
“Searching for Jesus in His Hometown,” a reflection on our trip to Palestine with the bishop, published in the July/August 2019 edition of Devo’Zine
“Imprint,” a fiction triptych in The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, October 2018
an essay on the theme “Door,” published in The Christian Century on March 28, 2018
an essay on the theme “Storm,” published in The Christian Century on January 17, 2018
a reflection on life in a special-needs neighborhood, published in the Nov./Dec. 2017 issue of Devo’Zine
a ten-word story entitled “Pink Ribbon Award,” published in Dime Show Review under my maiden name
a ten-word story entitled “Heart on Sleeve,” published in Dime Show Review under my maiden name
a devotion called “A New Way to Define Boundaries,” published in the Sep./Oct. 2017 edition of the teen magazine Devo’Zine