* 2008 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection
* Booklist Starred Review
* 2008 School Library Journal Best Adult Books for High School Students
* 2008 Idaho Book Award Honorable Mention
* 2007 Winner of the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize
Purchase now at University of Nebraska Press , Amazon, Powells, Barnes & Noble, the University of Idaho Bookstore, or ask your local independent bookstore to order it. Click to Read an Excerpt.
Essays
You can also read a sampling of my essays by clicking on the links below.
“Why I Stay,” Fugue, Winter-Spring, 2010.
“Growing Up Superfund,” Columbia: A Journal of Art & Literature. Spring 2010.
“Works Cited,” The Missouri Review, Fall 2008. (Excerpt from my forthcoming memoir).
“The Bone Road,” Shenandoah, Spring 2008. Winner of the 2008 Thomas Carter Prize for the Essay.
“Eleven Ways to Consider Air,” Ecotone, Spring 2007, and The Pushcart Prize Anthology 2009.
“On Failure,” Blood Orange Review, Fall 2008.
“Wrestling Gene Simmons & Other Demons,” Tin House, “Evil,” #31, 2007.
“All That Glows,” High Desert Journal, Spring 2006. Later reprinted in the Dallas Morning News & The Utne Reader as “When the Pipe Bomb Blows.”
“Confessions of a Telemarketer,” Colorado Review, Fall 2006.
“An Old Home, Who’ll Stay?: Field Notes on the Nebraska Sandhills.” River Teeth, Spring 2005.
