Writing

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Selected Poems

Poems presented as text, audio, photo illustrations by Virgil DiBiase and Scott Lukas  Sierra Nevada Ally

Best American Poetry 2006, “Letter from My Ancestors”

Creative Writer’s Handbook, 5th Edition, “Letter from My Ancestors”

Cultural Weekly, “The Letter V,” “Would It Be So Wrong,” “Vade Mecum,” and “Composing a Sample Poem for Third Graders, Who Are Generally Encouraged to Write Cheerful Things, I Choose My Estranged Brother and the Color Gray,” July 9, 2014

Eclectica: Dikter utmed vägen mellan Atlanten och Stilla Havet, "Morning," "The Day I Die," and " Would it Be So Wrong," (translated by Sharock Kamyab into the Swedish)

Kokanee Literary Journal, “Snow Child”

New Millennium Writings, “Once It Was Otherwise”

Nevada Humanities Heart to Heart, "Dandelion, Sea Anemone, Hummingbird."

Pacific Coast Philology, “Portrait on the Lost Coast” and “Sorry For All the Times”

Pomona Valley Review, “After Another Two Years”

Rattle, “Patio Tomatoes”

The Writer’s Almanac, July 25, 2013 “The Day I Die”

The Writer’s Almanac, November 12, 2013 “Gifted and Talented”

The Writer’s Almanac, November 13, 2013 “Morning”

The Writer’s Almanac, December 1, 2013 “Would It Be So Wrong”

West Trestle Review, “Sorry For All the Times”

Anthropology News, January 2009 "Overheard at the 105th Annual Meeting of the AAA,"  (download below)

Selected Essays and Short Stories

Crack the Spine, "Eating Alone." 

Carbon Culture Review, “At Age Seventy-One, My Father Gets an iPad”

Jewish Women's Literary Annual, "Maslow Meets Prometheus in the Classroom"

Tahoe Blues, “You Don’t Seem Like You’re from Tahoe”

The Sun, “Perfection"

Interviews and Reviews

Interview of Suzanne Roberts, "Moving, Memory, and Meaning," Santa Fe Writer's Project, October 15, 2020.

Interview of June Sylvester Saraceno, "Freedom to Roam," Split Lip Magazine, May 14, 2020.

Interview of Amanda Skenandore, "Speaking with Amanda Skenandore About the Scars of Forced Assimilation," Los Angeles Review of Books, April 24, 2019

Interview of Flor Edwards, “Apocalypse Child”: A Journey Out of a Cult," Los Angeles Review of Books, July 12, 2018

Interview of Gayle Brandeis, “Mental Health, Art, and Advocacy: Talking with Gayle Brandeis,” Los Angeles Review of Books, April 19, 2018

Interview of Jill Kelly, “Creativity and Recovery,” Los Angeles Review of Books, May 29, 2014