I’m delighted to report that Ohio University Press will be releasing a second edition of my 2005 memoir, Loving Mountains, Loving Men. I’ve written a new afterword and updated the acknowledgments, and the press has come up with a wonderful new cover. The book’s due out on my 64th birthday:
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ENGL 3534/Literature and the Environment
The Fall 2022 semester at Virginia Tech has come to a close, and I’m more than ready for a break. That said, the semester was one of the most interesting I’ve ever experienced, albeit also one of the busiest. I taught a course entirely new to me–ENGL 3534/Literature and the
Read moreVirginia Poetry Anthology
I have several poems included in this handsome poetry anthology, The Southern Poetry Anthology, Vol. IX: Virginia! The book’s due out November 15th. Many thanks to the editors and to Texas Review Press!
Read morePoem in Impossible Archetype 12
Thanks to editor Mark Ward for including one of my poems, “Uruz 3,” in the 12th issue of Impossible Archetype! In the summer of 2020, I wrote a series of poems based on the Elder Futhark, an old Norse alphabet, three poems for each of the twenty-four letters. Uruz is
Read moreShort Story in Still
Many thanks to guest fiction editor Julia Watts, who recently published my short story, “Indian Summer,” in the Summer 2022 issue of Still: The Journal. The story serves as a sequel to my novel Cub. Be sure to check out her great introduction!
Read moreAnniversary Edition of Purgatory
My first Civil war novel, Purgatory, has been rereleased in a tenth anniversary edition! In addition to Purgatory, this edition also includes an afterword and the text of my 2011 Civil War novella, “Camp Allegheny,” which first appeared in History’s Passion: Stories of Sex Before Stonewall, edited by Richard Labonté.
Read moreRomanian Trip, Part One
During the pandemic, I’ve neglected this webpage, but my husband and publisher have been nudging me to update it regularly. I’ll try to do that. If you’re reading this, thank you for your patience! A good while back, I wrote some long blog posts that I never posted, about my
Read moreVisiting My Publisher
My husband and I were in New England last week and got to visit with my wonderful publisher, Steve Berman. Here are Mr. Steve and my own Viking-bearded self at the Bridge of Flowers in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts.
Read moreHuntington Reading, September 2019
Thanks to a kind invitation by author Carter Taylor Seaton, on September 16 I gave a reading as part of the “Writers Can Read” series, held monthly at the Inner Geek Bookstore in Huntington, West Virginia. Before the evening reading, Carter Taylor Seaton interviewed me for her television show, Chapters.
Read moreSPRING/SUMMER 2019
The spring and summer of 2019 have included a few short trips and a lot of reading and writing. On April 22nd, I drove down to Asheville, North Carolina, with Jakk Blood, a Maine buddy who’s the hot cub on the cover of my upcoming essay collection, Endangered Species. I
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