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I’m in love with this cover for Lives, designed by Gabriele Wilson. Gabriele designed the cover of my first chapbook, The Category of Outcast, and it means a lot to have my work so nicely dressed up by her work […]

Ghost Poem in Virginia Quarterly Review (this poem was later published in A Penance). My favorite part of post-apocalyptic movies is when the characters walk around ruined cities and it’s quiet and the grasses and vines have started to take […]

Giant thanks to Victoria Chang for selecting my book LIVES for the Kathryn A. Morton Prize from Sarabande Books. The book will be out next summer—copious updates to come, of course.

Two poems from the new book in the updated Cortland Review. Click through for the link.

“An Orchard Is a Forest We Broke” in Crazyhorse. Click through to get to the link.

“What other professions have you worked in?” Whew, lots. I cut back trees and shrubs under powerlines in the forests of Oregon. I checked the items in boxes against order forms in a sports company warehouse, which I liked because […]