Nonfiction/Essays
“Moose Season,” in Catamaran Literary Reader, Summer 2025
“Hellgrammite, in Matterpress, 2024
"Slate" in terrain.org, 2021
“Hitched” at Air/Light, 2021
"On the Dark Forest Road" in About Place Journal, May 2020
“My Life Lagoons” Catamaran Literary Reader, Fall 2020
"Thousands of Islands, Millions of Birds" in Refuge: America's Wildest Places, photography by Ian Shive, 2020
"The Lonely Islands" in Alaska Quarterly Review, 2019. With a photo essay by Irene Owsley
"My Acid Cruise" in Ploughshares, 2012
“Fossiliferous” in Hunger Mountain, 2011
“About a Moment” in Alaska Quarterly Review, 2009
Fiction
“My Name is Robin Pelkey” in Catamaran Literary Reader, Summer 2023
“Come Help Me” in Resurrection Trust: stories about living sustainably from the Green Stories competition (anthology), Retreat West Books, 2019. “Come Help Me” was the competition’s first-place winner. A revised version appeared in No More Fairy Tales: Stories to Save Our Planet, Habitat Press, 2022. This story also appears in my newest collection.
“Let Them Tell You,” Saltfront, Issue 8, Fall 2019. Reprinted in Dark Mountain, Issue 21, 2022. This story also appears in my new collection.
“The Flat Earth Society, 1985” in Catamaran Literary Reader, Winter 2018. This story also appears in my new collection
An excerpt from my novel pH in The Anchorage Daily News, Sept. 2017.
Commentaries
“From one of your own visiting Iceland” a Letter to America at terrain.org. 2025
My defense of public lands facilities and staff in the Anchorage Daily News, July 2025.
“What I’ve learned about learning” on the 49writers blog, 2024
“The best authentic novels about Alaska by Alaskans” on Sheperd.com best books site. 2023.
“The teacher who pointed us to Alaska” in the Anchorage Daily News, co-written with Tom Kizzia, 2021.
“Why I Review Books” on the 49writersblog, 2018.
"No Retreatings, Friends!" a Letter to America at terrain.org, 2017.
“Remembering John Haines” on the 49writers blog, 2011.
“Moose Season,” in Catamaran Literary Reader, Summer 2025
“Hellgrammite, in Matterpress, 2024
"Slate" in terrain.org, 2021
“Hitched” at Air/Light, 2021
"On the Dark Forest Road" in About Place Journal, May 2020
“My Life Lagoons” Catamaran Literary Reader, Fall 2020
"Thousands of Islands, Millions of Birds" in Refuge: America's Wildest Places, photography by Ian Shive, 2020
"The Lonely Islands" in Alaska Quarterly Review, 2019. With a photo essay by Irene Owsley
"My Acid Cruise" in Ploughshares, 2012
“Fossiliferous” in Hunger Mountain, 2011
“About a Moment” in Alaska Quarterly Review, 2009
Fiction
“My Name is Robin Pelkey” in Catamaran Literary Reader, Summer 2023
“Come Help Me” in Resurrection Trust: stories about living sustainably from the Green Stories competition (anthology), Retreat West Books, 2019. “Come Help Me” was the competition’s first-place winner. A revised version appeared in No More Fairy Tales: Stories to Save Our Planet, Habitat Press, 2022. This story also appears in my newest collection.
“Let Them Tell You,” Saltfront, Issue 8, Fall 2019. Reprinted in Dark Mountain, Issue 21, 2022. This story also appears in my new collection.
“The Flat Earth Society, 1985” in Catamaran Literary Reader, Winter 2018. This story also appears in my new collection
An excerpt from my novel pH in The Anchorage Daily News, Sept. 2017.
Commentaries
“From one of your own visiting Iceland” a Letter to America at terrain.org. 2025
My defense of public lands facilities and staff in the Anchorage Daily News, July 2025.
“What I’ve learned about learning” on the 49writers blog, 2024
“The best authentic novels about Alaska by Alaskans” on Sheperd.com best books site. 2023.
“The teacher who pointed us to Alaska” in the Anchorage Daily News, co-written with Tom Kizzia, 2021.
“Why I Review Books” on the 49writersblog, 2018.
"No Retreatings, Friends!" a Letter to America at terrain.org, 2017.
“Remembering John Haines” on the 49writers blog, 2011.
