Essays & Other Publications

Selected Publications

  • “Cacatua Moleccensis,” Bellevue Literary Review, nonfiction, Spring 2025.

    Honorable Mention Judged by Esme Weijun Wang
    Wang said of the piece: “[This essay] approaches the subject of anxiety and mental illness in unexpected ways, capturing both the challenge of living with a condition and the intricate tenderness of loving someone who shares it. The integration of bird lore and the unusual locale of Nancy Forrester’s Secret Garden gave the piece an unexpected sense of wonder, turning it into an exploration of mental health that moved me with the writer's unique approach."

  • “Creating Nonfiction Within and Against Nature and Climate Tropes,” nonfiction/pedagogy, Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, 2023, online.

  • “Mycteria americana,” Nonfiction, The Citron Review, 2022, online. 

  • “Beige + Blue,” Nonfiction, Hobart Pulp, 2022, online. 

  • “How I Wish I’d Taught Frederick Douglass: An Examination of the Books and Conversations We Have in Classrooms,”Nonfiction/Pedagogy, Assay: a journal of nonfiction studies, 2022, online.

  • “On Weeds and Healing,” Nonfiction/Eco-criticism, The Dodge, 2022, online.
    Nominated for “Best of the Net”

  • “Drifting,” Flash Nonfiction, NPR “Fresh Picked Prose,” 2021, radio. 

  • “Searching,” Nonfiction, Entropy, 2021, online

  • “Encased in Marble,” Nonfiction, The Normal School, 2018, print.

  • “At Francis Beidler Forest, Stories of Escaped Slaves Mingle with Nature,” Nonfiction/Journalism Audubon, 2018, online.

  • “Capturing Dementia’s Voice: Postwar Memories Under Siege,” Nonfiction, Catapult, 2017, online.

  • “Fully Clothed,” Nonfiction, Fall Lines—a literary convergence, 2015, print
    Winner of the “Broad River Prize for Prose”

Contributions to WFSU’s Award Winning Ecology Blog

  • “Bluffs of St. Teresa – Ochlocknee Vista Joins Landscapes,” online.

  • “St. Marks Refuge trails: biking and running away from the Lighthouse Road,” online.

  • “Meet Buddha, a Florida panther at the Tallahassee Museum,” online.

  • “2023 Update on the Reintroduction of Eastern Indigo Snakes to the Apalachicola Bluffs and Ravines Preserve,” online.

  • “Don’t tear it out? Rethinking (and rewilding) your Tallahassee lawn,” online.

  • “The Wakulla Springs Wildlife Survey—a decades long look,” online.

  • “Welcome Liesel Hamilton to the WFSU Ecology Blog!,” online.