CV
EDUCATION
2022 MFA Creative Writing, Pacific Northwest College of Art
2003 Bachelor of the Liberal Arts, The Evergreen State College
SELECT EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCE
2026 Terra Solarium, Method Gallery, Seattle (forthcoming)
2025 Satellite, Art Basel, Miami (forthcoming)
2025 Snowbound, Littmann Gallery, Pacific Northwest Conceptual Art Center 75th Annual Retrospective, Portland
2025 Hearken, Basecamp Studios, Seattle
2025 False Faces and Facades, Gagallery, Portland
2025 Refreshment: On the Aesthetics of Reawakening, Space 776, NYC, New York
2025 Textuality, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
2025 Identity, The Clemente, New York
2025 Works on Paper, The Long Beach Island Foundation of Arts & Sciences, New Jersey
2025 100 Day Challenge, ArtNYC, New York
2025 Hearken, Telephone, worldwide
2025 Works on Paper 2025, Gallery at Green & Stone, London
2024 In Writing, Treat Gallery, New York
2024 Death Meditation, Katabatik Konklave, Red Hawk Avalon, Pe Ell
2024 Terral Aperture, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art Museum, South Korea
2024 Letting Go Is All We Have To Hold On To, Emerge Gallery, New York
2024 ( ((elapse)) ), Vestibule Gallery, Seattle
2024 Works on Paper, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, New York
2024 Salt Crown / Time Capsule, Vestibule Gallery, Seattle
2023 The Village Scroll, Olympia Armory Creative Campus, Olympia
2023 Palimpsest Journal, Thurston County Museum of Fine Art, Olympia
2022 Stag King, Beltane festival, Olympia
2021 Dear Koi, Lan Su Chinese Garden, Portland
2021 Speculative Futures: Art, AI and Digital Worldmaking, The Holt Gallery, Portland
2021 Ekphrasis and Other Collaborations, Bar Francis, Olympia
2018 A Choir of Ghosts Refleshed, Circadia, Portland
2017 Psychopomp, Circadia, Portland
2012 Occultural Musick Festival, Seattle
2009 Oral Section, Sizizis, Olympia
2006 Salt, Parts Olympic, Cascadia
2003 Mixed Works, CARA Gallery, Seattle
FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
2025-2027 Poet Laureate of Olympia, Washington
2024 Longlisted, Granum Foundation Prize
2024 Finalist, Driftwood Press Adrift Short Story Contest
2024 Creative Access Award
2023 John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Sponsored Residency, Yaddo
2023 Whiting Foundation Grant
2023 PARC Foundation Arts Intervention Grant
2022 Prairie Fellowship
2018 Creative Access Fellowship
2017 Craig H. Neilsen Foundation Fellowship
2017 Longlisted, Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Chapbook Contest
2015 Creative Access Fellowship
2005 Jeanne Lohmann Poetry Award
RESIDENCIES
2026 Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig, Ireland (forthcoming)
2025 Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2025 Edward F. Albee Foundation Fellowship, Montauk, New York
2025 Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Otis, Oregon
2024 PLAYA, Summer Lake, Oregon
2023 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York
2022 Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2022 Ragdale, Lake Forest, Illinois
2018 Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California
2018 Ragdale, Lake Forest, Illinois
2017 PLAYA, Summer Lake, Oregon
2015 Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico
INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE
2025 Artist Residency Application Adjudicator, Edward F. Albee Foundation, Montauk, New York
2022 Guest lecture, Dreamblur, Pacific Northwest College of Art
2022 Private fiction tutelage
2021 Guest writer, undergraduate creative writing, Portland State University
2018-2019 Guest writer, undergraduate consciousness studies, The Evergreen State College (novel Helios on the syllabus)
PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS
2023 Soundcastles, novella
2021 The Dream Jar Audiobook, children’s stories
2019 The Dream Jar, children’s stories
2015 Helios, novel
2006 Black Hills Cabal, poetry collection
2003 Jupiter’s Sorrows, chapbook
SHORT STORY
2025 “Mastodon” Defending the World Tree: A Journal for Animist Awakening (forthcoming)
2025 “Pup” LoveAboards (forthcoming)
2024 “Pips” Occulum
2020 “Zeroeth World” (put to film with Chelsea Friedman)
2019 “Kryptonite” Breath & Shadow
POEMS
2025 “Cluster” Buckman Journal
2025 “Drift” Still the Water: Olympia Poets on Place anthology
2025 “Mask of Bark” Midsummer: The Sacred Grove
2025 “How to be Greedy About Being Generous” Instruction Manual for a New Era
2025 “The Broken Celebration” Tendrils
2025 “Surgery” Rogue Agent
2025 “They Gave Us” Oden (forthcoming)
2025 “Fir Boards” & “Chocolate” Quotidian Journal (forthcoming)
2024 “Come Great Wind” Woundscapes
2024 “Hold On” Magnets and Ladders
2024 “When I Say” The Globe Review
2024 “Kintsugi” Réapparition Journal
2024 “Dating an Able-Bodied Person” Wishbone
2024 “Walk” Corporeal
2023 “Asterion Deliriant” (reprint) Process & Place: Headlands at 40
2023 “1894” Medicine for a Nightmare
2021 “Asterion Deliriant” Samaritan Press
2021 “Ceremony of the Slain Bear” Samaritan Press
2021 “I Was Happy the Animals Came Back” Sheltered in Place
2021 “Ship of Ghosts” Memorie
2021 “Born” The Wilderness
2019 “Animal” Free State Review
2019 “Transformations III” Duende
2019 “Wheelchair” Monstering
2018 “Push” Intima
2018 “Coral” poem put to film, with Paul Sutfin
2017 “Northern Flicker” On the Edge
2014 “Dreamlife of the Styx” Cascadian Yule
2012 “Androgyne Primordial” Hex Magazine
2010 “Wheeling” Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment
2008 “Hollow Tree” Hex Magazine
2006 “Port of the Sun” Cascadian Yule
2005 “Rain” Fauna
2004 (Untitled) Mad Hatter’s Mercury
ESSAY
2025 “Beyond Meaning” Katabatik (forthcoming)
2024 “Against Relevance” Oak Journal
2021 “Hybrids” NoMaterialism
2020 “Ghosts of Stone” The Wilderness
2019 “Echoes” The Wilderness
2012-14 various music reviews: Vita Ignes Corpus Lignum
READINGS
2025 Ancient Greece is My Roman Empire, Common Objects, Seattle (forthcoming)
2023 Flow: Art and Ecology Symposium, Kitteredge Gallery, Tacoma
2022 Hekate’s Crossing, Azoth, Portland
2022 Pallas Gallery, San Francisco
2022 Ragdale Dance Studio, Chicago
2021 Iran-America Artist Exchange, Along These Lines, Alberta Abbey Gallery, Portland
2021 Ceremony of the Slain Bear, An Evening in the Garden, The Lab, Olympia
2018 Open House Readings, Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco
2017 Push, Bowery Poetry Club, New York
2015 SFAI 140, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe
2012 Asterion Deliriant, Cryptatropa, Olympia
2011 Port of the Sun, The Midnight Sun, Olympia
2010 Persephone Partaketh the Shade-Fruit, Hall of the Woods, Olympia
2009 As Heterocera Unto Sankta Lucia, Hall of the Woods, Olympia
2009 That the Sunlight May Penetrate Our Bones, Sizizis, Olympia
2007 Honey from the Dead King, Hall of the Woods, Olympia
2007 Dream Theater, Hall of the Woods, Olympia
2006 Earth is the River of Heaven, Manium, Olympia
2006 Unfolded Bird, Last Word Books, Olympia
2006 In the Beginningless Beginning, Last Word Books, Olympia
2005 Jupiter’s Sorrows and New Works, Orca Books, Olympia
2005 Mandorla, private showing, Olympia
PODCASTS & PRESS
2025 The Last Meal, interview, The Zona Motel
2010 “Rain” Hideous Gnosis