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It’s spring in Appalachia and I’ve been thinking a lot about perspective. River has grown from an infant into a thriving soon-to-turn six-month-old. He is alive; he is life. His world [...]

Off to Washington D.C.! Brad, River, and I are headed northeast for our first family trip by plane this week, landing in D.C. to participate in the 2017 Association of Writers & Writing [...]

These are trying times. We’re surrounded by uncertainty. Art is under attack. These are the sentiments I keep hearing, and while I have my anxieties about the future, a wavering faith in [...]

From 2010-2012, I spent 21 out of 36 months on the road, hopping from writing residency to writing residency, drafting Flashes of War. I didn’t know yet that I’d become a fiction [...]

I spent the New Year with my first official experience as a working author-mother “out there” in the world, trying on both hats at the same time. I can’t think of a better place [...]

I suspect that our lives have all changed greatly since the election. Here inside our family home, the worldview has shifted to the micro: an inconceivably small fingernail, the few minutes [...]

My water broke around 2:45am on Saturday morning, November 12, and the first thing I did was call Brad. Anticipating the largest paintball scenario game on the East coast, he was camping 90 [...]

It’s a quiet, dark joke between writers that “fewer than 1% of Pushcart Prize nominees” ever actually WIN the prize. I don’t know whether that’s urban legend or [...]

I was invited to write a guest blog post for SmokeLong Quarterly’s “Flash, Back” series, which asks writers to discuss flash fiction that may be obscure or printed before the term “flash [...]

Last month, I wrote a guest blog post for the fabulous new fiction publication and app, Great Jones Street, who decided to publish the post last week. In short? The editors and staff behind GJS [...]