• Review: The Bone People by Keri Hulme

    We’re working backwards through reviews I’ve written over the past year and change. This review was written 29 May, 2026. I just finished reading The Bone People this evening. Since then I’ve had a shower and enjoyed an ice cream sundae, all while turning it over in my mind. The story lingers, and invites consideration.…

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  • Review: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

    I first read Braiding Sweetgrass as part of the assigned reading in my Creative Writing MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte, though I had heard about the book and been wanting to read it for some time before that. Still, I didn’t expect to encounter it in a Fiction course – the book is…

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  • Publication: No Grain Alone

    Bainbridge Island Press has released a new poetry anthology, Grain, a collection of nearly ninety curated poems. According to the publisher, “Grain gathers voices who know wheat and rice, harvest and hunger, the daily loaf and the loaf of feast, and it asks what poetry might learn from the work of feeding people.” One of…

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  • Review: The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker

    It’s no secret that I love horror. It may well be my favorite genre, to watch or read or play. Horror movies are particularly fun for me, and my favorite of these is Hellraiser. It has been ever since I watched it many years ago at Cthulhu-con in Portland, Oregon. The con took place in…

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  • Back at it

    It’s been a long time since I had a proper website to call my own. This new attempt will be my way to reach out to readers. I’ll post announcements about any publishing news I have, life updates, and snippets of writing, like responses to writing prompts. Who knows what else will find its way…

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