To visit a cozy bookstore today is probably more fun, but you can pre-order my book and support a small press from the cozy comfort of your own bed:

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This running track in one of Portland’s “toughest neighborhoods” is so peaceful. I come here to run every weekend. And the sanctuary isn’t just mine: an awesome diversity of people come here to walk, to run, to find space to think…

So Gold Man Review, the “other” journal of west coast writers (I’ve had a story in Zyzzyva too), has just published my story, “Darkling,” one of my school stories. Content warnings all over the place for this one, folks, but hopeful as heck in the end.

A late-season hike into Cairn Basin on Mt. Hood. Probably the last people to get up there this year. Big storms a’comin’!

I have one last ARC of my upcoming story collection, The Divide, from Cornerstone Press, February 2026. I’d love to snag another reviewer or interviewer. Send me a DM with your ideas! Thx!

Cover reveal. The author and an ARC of his beautiful new book, “The Divide,” from Cornerstone Press, release date of February, 2026. I’m so pleased with the folks at this press!

A few more photos from my time here at Dorland Center for the Arts. Looking for a residency? Don’t sleep on this one!

My favorite cinema dog of all time is known as just plain “Dog.”

Hey! Found one of my books facing outwards in a small indie bookstore! #shelfie

So this photographer, K.B. Dixon, read about my Oregon Literary Fellowship and asked me to sit for a portrait for his series on the Oregon Arts Watch website. The result:

Wolf!

I went for a hike near Playa Summer Lake. Apparently I had company.

Here is my third collection, Taylor’s version:

Born too late! My writing is essentially doomed because my preferred press is the defunct but brilliant Black Sparrow (not that they would have had me).

Saturday seems like forever ago.