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Books

Memoir
Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail (forthcoming from the University of Nebraska Press, September 2012)

Full-length Poetry Collections
Plotting Temporality, Pecan Grove Press (forthcoming in Spring, 2012)
Three Hours to Burn a Body: Poems on Travel, Cherry Grove Collections, May 2011
Nothing to You, (Pecan Grove Press), March 2008
Shameless, Cherry Grove Collections, November 2007

Poetry in Literary Journals by Date

"Root of the Queen" and "The Neighborhood," Edge (2012)
"Unrequited Love" and "Haircutting Ceremony," Quiddity (2012)
"Skeleton," Poems & Plays (2011)
"The Story," "Plotting Temporality," "A Theory of Gravity," "Inside this Body," Fjords (2011)
"As If" and "Another Ending," The MeadoW (2011)
"The Truth," Drunken Boat (2011)
"In the Train Station," Mead (2011)
"The Story" and "Without Knowing" Edge (2011)
"What the Dead Sometimes Do," Eclipse (2011)
"The Road," The MacGuffin (2011)
"Twilight," Albatross (Spring 2011)

"Five Moons," Brushfire (2010)
"Letter to Catherine," The Prose Poem Project (Fall 2010)
"The Mongolian Disco," Alligator Juniper (Fall 2010)
"A Poem Called Happiness," ISLE (Spring 2010)
"Backcountry," The Mountain Gazette (Spring 2010)
"The Hutong" and "Throat Singing," The MacGuffin (Spring 2010)
"If You Could Ask, What Is It that You'd Want?" and "Apocalypse at the Safeway," Poems & Plays (Spring 2010)
"What You Do for Poetry," The Bicycle Review (Spring 2010)
"What It's Like," Edge (2010)
"The Syntax of Gravity," The Mountain Gazette (Fall 2009)
"The Rising Sun," Cider House Review (Fall 2009)
"Devotion," Atlanta Review (Fall 2009)
"A Face You Won't Remember at All," 5AM (Fall 2009)
"Church Beach Trip," The Bicycle Review (Summer 2009)
"The Sky Remade," reprinted in the Waits-Mast Family Cellars Pinot Noir Chapbook (Fall 2009)
"Poultry Stall," "Madrugada," Jungle Lodge," "At the Cafe," and "Almost Somewhere,"  Fourth River (Fall 2009)
"Junior High School" and "Some Such Day, The Connecticut River Review (Fall 2009)
"Learning Late" and "After the Biopsy Comes Back Normal," Sierra Nevada Review (Fall 2009)
"After Squeaky Told Me Doc-O Invented Her" and "Apologia for Mother," Imitation Fruit (Spring 2009)
"A Call to Prayer," The Palestine Chronicle (January 2009)
"A Villanelle for Gaza," The Palestine Chronicle (January 2009)
"Almost Somewhere" and "At the Cafe," Quay (Summer 2009)
"Waiting for the Train: and "At the Starbuck's" Edge (Summer 2009)
"The Affair" and "A Revision of Love's Possibilites," Brushfire (Spring 2009)
"Walking Christmas Morning" and "My Lover's Feet," The Big Toe Review, (Winter 2009)
"At the Starbuck's" and "What is Left," Poetry Now (Spring 2009)
"This Girl's Life," Melusine (March 2009)
"Other Woman" and "Dust like Ash," Two Review (2009)
"Incan Wall" and "Shark Attack," Terrain (Spring 2009)
"Rain in Venice," Valparaiso Poetry Review (Summer 2009)
"Homestay: Cusco Peru" and "Almost Somewhere," South American Explorers (Fall 2008)
"The Urn," Ginosko (Fall 2008)
"After Midnight," Short Poem (Summer 2008)
"Earth-Bound," The Tonopah Review (Summer 2008)
"The Figure" and "Her Need," Sacramento News & Review (Spring 2008)
"Near the American Oil Fields" Displayed in the Epidemic Peace Imagery Project, Madison, WI (2008)
"Animal Market," "El Pozo," and "The Falling Sky," ECOllective Journal (Summer 2008)
"Mortality," "The Forgotten," and "The Living and the Dead," Brushfire (Spring 2008)
"Backcountry Skiing," Moonshine Ink (March 2008)
"The Falling Sky," Poems and Plays (Spring 2008)
"Homestay: Cusco, Peru," Quay (Spring 2008)
"Surreal Landscapes" and "Running with an Old Dog," The Smoking Poet (Spring 2008)
"Lure," Miller's Pond Online (Winter 2008)
"The Gift," 13th Moon (Summer 2008)
"Call of the Coqui," Miller's Pond (Spring 2008)
"Two Seasons," Brushfire (Fall 2007)
"The Ferry" and "This Is the Because," South American Explorers (Fall, 2007)
"From the Bus," The MacGuffin Journal (Fall 2007)
"Dawn" and "Poem," Eclipse (Fall 2007)
"Scuba Diving" and "Cliff's Edge," Divide (Fall 2007)
"Elegy" and "For Now," High Altitude Poetry (May 2007)
"The Almost Living" The MeadoW (Spring 2007)
“The Leaving,” “Mormon Crickets,” and “Surreal Landscapes,” The City of
Reno Review (Spring 2007)
“Hesitation,” Smartish Pace (Issue 14, 2007)
“The Loneliest Highway,” “Walking Christmas Morning,” “The Photograph,” Ilya’s Honey (Spring 2007)
“Everywhere Flies the American Flag,” Republished in The November 3rd Journal (Fall 2006)
“Today,” Eclipse (Fall 2006)
“Nature Hike,” Rattlesnake Review (Summer 2006)
“Night Gone, Section I,” GulfStream (Summer 2006)
“Nothing to You” and “Textiles” Smartish Pace (Spring 2006)
“Together,” Quercus Review (Spring 2006)
“El Lunes de Aguas,” “Preparing the Body,” The Aurora Review (Winter 2006)
“The Present Tense,” “Why You Stay,” and “Science Projects,” Amarillo Bay (November, 2005)
“Imagine” and “Open Mic Night at Luna’s,” Ascent Aspirations (November 2005)
“Thin White Shell,” “Clothes but not the Body,” and “On Writing,” WriterAdvice (October 2005)
“Between Midnight and Dawn,” 4AM  (Fall 2005)
“A Baby Shower,” ZYZZYVA (Fall 2005)
“Las Grutas,” The Hurricane Review (Winter 2005)
“Tepotzlan,” The California Quarterly (Fall 2005)
“Connection,” TETYC (Fall 2005)
“Decency,” The Banyan Review (Summer 2005)
“Advice for the Poet,” Spillway (Summer 2005)
“Mother Keeps Daddy on the Shelf,” The Thorny Locust Review (Summer 2005)
“Hotel Cadiz,” Branches Quarterly (Winter 2004)
“Human Concerns,” Poetry Motel  (Fall  2003)
“She Prays to Richard Hugo,” The Adirondack Review (Fall 2003)
“How to Identify Wildflowers,” The Ostentatious Mind (Fall 2003)
“A Gesture of Fire: A Sijo,” Free Focus (Fall 2003)
“words can’t describe it,” Country Connection.  (October 1996)

Poetry 
Anthologized

“Abortion Ghazal,”  A Generation Defining Itself, Vol. 8
“In this Way the Soul Leaves the Body,” XStories, Flying Trout Press, 2006.
“Hotel Cadiz,” The Best of Branches 2004, Uccelli Press, 2005. 
 
Creative Nonfiction/Travel Writing

"Eight Hours," Tahoe Blues, Bona Fide Books, 2012
"Prague and the Unbearable Truth of the Lousy Tourist," Matador (December 2011)
"The Ghost of Muir Pass," The Pacific Crest Trailside Reader, The Mountaineers Press, 2011
"
Found Love at Burning Man," Matador (September, 2010)
"Mongolia: A Photo Essay," National Geographic Traveler (September 2008)
"Three Hours to Burn a Body," National Geographic Traveler (September 2008)
"The Greening of Burning Man," National Geographic Intelligent Travel (September 2008)
"Experiencing Nadaam," National Geographic Intelligent Travel (July 2008)
"The Steppes of Mongolia," National Geographic Intelligent Travel (July 2008)
"Dating in Mongolia," National Geographic Intelligent Travel (July 2008)
"Gandan Monastery," National Geographic Intelligent Travel (July 2008)
"The Real Mongolia," National Geographic Intelligent Travel (July 2008)
"Genghis Khan at the Disco," National Geographic Intelligent Travel (July 2008)
“Romantic in a Dirty Way,” Savor Magazine (Fall 2000)
“To Be,” Country Connections (September 1997)

Fiction in Literary Journals

“Toward Heaven,” Harvest (2000)
“Electricity,” Tool Belted Liars (Fall 1997)
 
Wine Articles

Vintages Magazine, regular contributor: 1995-2000