I wrote this piece for Rock Paper Radio and The Slants Foundation originally and am happy to see it in its entirety at IE. It’s on the last page of the current print edition too.
2021 was a pretty productive and busy year, pandemic aside. I’m taking a moment to celebrate the good that came out of the past year and am grateful to everyone that supported my work this past year.
I published poems in Your Impossible Voice, Air / Light, Hobart, Behind a Door and Wonderground.
I published essays in NY Times, Off Assignment, South Seattle Emerald, Zocalo Public Square, and Seattle Met.
I published Virga in August. It was reviewed in Georgia Review, Hong Kong Review, and Hunger Mountain and also highlighted in The Rumpus, Ms. Magazine, Poets & Writers, Critical Flame, International Examiner, Shelf Awareness and Spine Magazine.
I presented my work at the Montana Book Festival, UCR Writers Week, University of San Francisco, Vermont College of Fine Arts, and launched Virga at Elliot Bay Books.
I made poetry films with David Ian Bickley that screened at Northwest Film Forum, Project Lazaretta in Greece, plus the Re-Vision Performing Arts Festival in Belfast.
I contributed a poetry film to a group show, Paths Intertwined, at The Wing Luke Museum.
I created commissioned work for The Slants Foundation in collaboration with jeli Ibrahim Arsalan.
I taught for Vermont College of Fine Art and the Tualatatin Valley Creates art incubator program.
I continued hosting and producing Lyric World, my podcast with poets and landed my dream job at Town Hall Seattle.
I completed productive residencies at Hypatia-in-the-Woods and Centrum Foundation.
Looking forward to whatever 2022 brings..
