Memoir Magazine Book Prize!

So excited to share that By the Forces of Gravity has been recognized by Memoir Magazine with a 2022 Book Prize for Innovative Storytelling! To celebrate By the Forces of Gravity winning a Memoir Magazine book prize, my publisher, Books by Hippocampus, is offering a 15% off coupon through...

Lost Time

Apropos to this being my first post since November my visual hybrid piece “Lost Time” that went live on KJZZ’s SOAPBOX series launch today. The series this week focuses on loss and commemorates the two years since the pandemic began to be felt in Arizona (KJZZ is the local...

Match-Making: Doodling for Writers

Doodling for Writers released in October and the splendor of this fact has been quiet. Promoting a book while the pandemic is mounting a terrible resurgence feels so trivial, so I really haven’t done much to even celebrate its birth—no release party, no book tour or signings. As an...

Doodling for Writers Out October 6!

I haven’t posted here since the Before Times. Life is still mired in fear and chaos and the daily efforts to carry on during the Pandemic, but I have some most excellent news to share. Doodling for Writers is available for preorders and will be out next month! I...

New Post on DIY MFA

I dove into children’s picture books for this new post on DIY MFA. Small in the City by Sydney Smith is a lovely book. Read on! Children’s Picture Books: Small in the City by Sydney Smith...

Doodling for Writers Coming Soon!

Super excited to share that Books by Hippocampus will be publishing my little book on drawing for writers! Here’s a link to the publishers blog post: Books by Hippocampus Blog. It includes this quick video I drew. My mother-in-law gave me a cool set-up for mounting my phone above...

Hello From the Other Side of Silence

You may have noticed, but I can be a bit of a recluse. No, I’m not resolving for 2020 to shed my introverted self and don a suit of gregariousness. Instead, I resolve to remain a quiet person. I will continue to share glimpses of my life, mostly my...

Drawing for Writers

A quick post to share a miscellany of doodling news for Summer 2019! I did another post for DIY MFA focused on helping writers find their drawing voice. How to Draw Nothing. It’s a companion post to the one I did in January: Resolving to Draw More. At the...

Happy Birthday By the Forces of Gravity!

My cartoon/poetry memoir came out a year ago today! It’s been such an amazing year, for the book, for my own creative life. This spring I’ve been on sabbatical from my professor job at Arizona State University where I’ve been teaching landscape architecture for the past twenty-five years. I’ve...

What, April is Half Over!?

March was a whirlwind that blew halfway through April. The AWP conference and reading in Portland and Astoria was awesome. I’m still reading through the books I brought home from the expo. This week I was part of the DIY MFA Writer Igniter Memoir Summit. ICYMI they are reposting...