Creative Nonfiction Essays
a retreat to advance. Home Lifespan Vol 7. Ed. Pure Slush. 2023.
Alignment. Gravel. November 1, 2017.
between. So to Speak: Blog. December 27, 2022.
Blank Pages. Brevity Blog. July 10, 2024.
Bubba. Vistant. May 15, 2018.
Cousins. 50 Give or Take. August 20, 2023.
Divorce Education. Palaver. Spring 2015. 35-38.
educated. MicroLit Almanac. August 28, 2024.
Normal. 8th & Atlas Publishing. March 12, 2024. Invited blog post.
Platitudes. 50 Give or Take. September 11, 2025.
Three Shorts. Rathalla Review. November 25, 2023. 24-25.
Three Shorts. So to Speak: Blog. January 9, 2017.
Unraveling: Six Months. So to Speak: Blog. August 17, 2015.
Why I get up early. Brevity Blog. September 26, 2022.
Interviews with Authors
Beyond Death: A Conversation with Alice Sebold. Weber: The Contemporary West. 24(1), 2007: 62-70.
On Education, Historical Gaps, and Imaginative Empathy: A Conversation with Geraldine
Brooks. Weber: The Contemporary West. 30(1), 2013: 2-15.
Op-Eds
How do we connect? A case for the humanities. Salt Lake Tribune, January 4, 2016.
Scholarly Articles & Chapters (selected)
Are We Engaged? A College-level Inventory of Community Engagement. eJournal of Public Affairs, 8(3), 2019: 53-67. –> with Christy Call, Alexander L. Lancaster, Amanda Sowerby, Kathleen “K” Stevenson, and Isabel Asensio.
In Pursuit of Regional and Cultural Identity: The Autobiographies of Agnes Morley Cleaveland and Fabiola Cabeza de Baca. In S. Inness & D. Royer (Eds.), Breaking Boundaries: New Perspectives on Women’s Regional Writing. University of Iowa Press, 1997: 180-196.
Online Modules for Community Engaged Learning During a Global Pandemic. Metropolitan Universities, 34(1), 2023. –> with Alexander Lancaster, Barrett Bonella, and Patrick Tadlock, Richard Fry.
Skills and Literacies for the 21st Century: Assessing an Undergraduate Professional and Technical Writing Program. Technical Communication, 54(4), 2007: 412-423. –> with Shelley Thomas
Teaching Content Management with XML. In T. Bridgeford (Ed.), Teaching Content
Management in Technical and Professional Communication. Routledge, 2020: 108-124.
Weaving-woman: Gladys Reichard Among the Navajo. Plateau Journal: Land and Peoples of the Colorado Plateau, 7(2), 2003: 28-39.
Why We Should Teach XML: An Argument for Technical Acuity. In G. Pullman & B. Gu
(Eds.), Content Management: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice. Amityville, NY: Baywood Press, 2009: 73-85.
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