My Books

And by "my" books, I mean ones I've written. If I included books I've bought, this list would 1) be much longer and 2) feature what you might consider a surprising amount of Laura-Ingalls-Wilder-themed titles. If I had to name a primary life goal, I would say it's making this list longer.

The Gospel of Household Plants

This is my first book, a collection of poetry. It won Quercus Review Press's poetry book contest in 2015. I recommend giving it a try if you're in the mood for mostly upbeat poems about family, plus a few about love and plants. Bonus fact: my sister took the photo on the book's cover, which features one of my father's household plants.

Blankness, Melancholy, and Other Ways of Dying

Uh-oh. As you can tell by the title, this one isn't as much of an upper. It's also a chapbook, which is a shorter collection. My point of departure for these poems was a question: What would invisible maladies (depression, anxiety, chronic pain, etc.) look like if they were visible? The answers I came up with turned into many poems in this collection. The cover art is by the brilliant genius Kate Weinberg.