I work as a freelance writer, mostly focusing on creative nonfiction. I have, as well, published poetry in numerous journals. Below are links to recent work.

Nonfiction

LEO Weekly: “The Trace” (May 2024)

Kentucky Monthly: “A Shangri-La in the East” (February 2024)

Kentucky Monthly: “Enough to Make Angels Weep” (October 2023)

Kentucky Monthly: “Log & Stone Getaway” (December 2022)

LEO Weekly: “Snowed-In at Kentucky’s Pine Mountain” (January 2022)

LEO Weekly: “The Owls” (May 2021)

LEO Weekly: “In Geologic Time” (March 2021)

LEO Weekly: “An Invitation for This Time” (April 2020)

Louisville Magazine: “Bird by Bird” (February 2020)

The Ruckus: “Speaking: Zed Saeed” (January 2020)

LEO Weekly: “In the Company of Birds” (July 2019)

Sierra: “Appalachia Off the AT” (March/April 2019)

Louisville Magazine: “The Art of Shooting on Film” (January 2019)

LEO Weekly: “The Good River” (October 2018)

LEO Weekly: “The Ravens of Pine Mountain” (April 2018)

Louisville Magazine: “The Duck Hunt” (December 2017)

LEO Weekly: “Ghosts of the City” (June 2017)

Kenyon Review: “Paint It Plain as Dirt” (April 2017)

Kentucky Monthly: “Field Work” (August 2014)

LEO Weekly: “Gross Income” (May 2014)

Kentucky Monthly: “The Blue Raven” (April 2014)

Kentucky Monthly: “True Wilderness” (March 2014)

Chronicle of Higher Education: “Assignment: Research Your Adjunct Teachers” (February 2014)

Kenyon Review: “No Greater Darkness” (September 2013)

Kentucky Monthly: “A Long Tradition” (February 2013)

Kentucky Monthly: “Trail Mix” (October 2012)

Selected Poetry

Green Mountains Review: “The Thing Itself and Not the Myth” and “Broken Country” (November 2017)

TYPO: “Sugarhouse” (November 2014)

The Adroit Journal: “The History of Snow” (June 2014)

Interviews

Artists Talk with LVA: “Our Innocent Minds exhibit” interview with Keith Waits and Rebecca Norton (May 2024)

Poets Touching Trees: “Tree Interview” (February 2017)

The Rupture: “Wavering Beacon in the Aftermath” (April 2015)

The Adroit Journal: “Conversations with Contributors” Part I and Part II (July 2014)