Hi! I am the Marketing and Community Relations Manager for North Valley Hospital in Whitefish, Montana and also a Freelance Content Writer for technology, healthcare, and tourism companies. See my ‘Professional Content Writing’ section for samples and portfolio.
I’m originally from southern Idaho, where I earned bachelors degrees from Boise State University in English Writing and Spanish. In 2015, I graduated with an MFA from the University of Montana in Missoula, Montana, where I was also the Editor-in-Chief for CutBank Literary Magazine.
My ‘first career’ was working for the US Forest Service for 14 years across Idaho, California, and Montana. I worked as a Wilderness Ranger, Wildland Firefighter, Aircraft Dispatcher, Fire Lookout, Visitor Information Contact, Writer-Editor, and Office Automations Clerk.
As a native Idahoan, I love being active in the outdoors and competing (participating!) in half marathons and triathlons.
Awards:
2019 ’20 Under 40′ Young Professionals to Watch in the Flathead Valley
2019 Accreditation in Public Relations
2015 Brainerd Foundation Fellowship in Environmental Writing
2015 Academy of American Poets Award, “Which is to Say”
2014 Nettie Weber Travel Award Recipient, University of Montana
2014 Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards, Finalist in Poetry
Publications:
(links available on Creative Writing pages)
Nonfiction
2016 Montana Magazine, “CDT Montana: An Outdoor Enthusiast Volunteer Mecca,” February 2016
2015 Tahoma Literary Review, “Nature Writing, Undefined”
2015 Montana Wilderness Association Website, various blog posts (please see Nonfiction, under Creative Writing)
2013 Conserve Montana, “Out From Behind the Screen: Wilderness Changes Lives,” 2013 Conservation Story Contest Honorable Mention, November 2013
2013 High Country News, “Let It Burn: The Challenge of Learning to Live with Fire,” Writers on the Range, (syndicated to publications across the west) July 2, 2013
2013 Assessment for a Wild and Scenic River, US Forest Service and National Park Service, January 2013
2009 High Country News, “Out of the Nest and Into a Tent,” Writers on the Range, February 9, 2009
Poetry
2017 Crab Orchard Review, “Obligation, North,” “Obligation, East,” “Obligation, South,” Obligation, West,” August 2017
2015 Tahoma Literary Review, “Den,” December 2015
2015 Ghost Town, “Autobiography of Night,” “Which is to Say,” “Before Going Back,” October 2015
2015 Bellingham Review, “Now, Hunger,” March 2015
2015 West Trade Review, “You Are One Hundred,” “Rock Garden,” March 2015
2015 Chatsworth Press Lonely Whale Anthology, “Basalt,” “Packing,” “Types of Evenings,” “Frost Moon,” February 2015
2014 Cascadia Review, “Telling,” “Coordinates,” “Twenty-Seven,” “Driftwood Blanched,” October 2014
2011 Whitefish Review, “Evaporation,” Volume Five, August 2011
2011 The Sun Magazine, “Paying Attention,” Readers Write, July 2011
2011 Cirque Journal, “The Most Silent You’ve Ever Seen Me,” Volume II, June 2011