Books of Travel Writing, Memoir, and Essays
Animal Bodies: On Death, Desire & Other Difficulties, University of Nebraska Press, March 2022
Bad Tourist: Misadventures in Love and Travel, University of Nebraska Press, October 2020
Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail, University of Nebraska Press, September 2012 (new edition: October 2023)
Bad Tourist: Misadventures in Love and Travel, University of Nebraska Press, October 2020
Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail, University of Nebraska Press, September 2012 (new edition: October 2023)
Full-Length Poetry Collections
Plotting Temporality, Pecan Grove Press, November 2012
Three Hours to Burn a Body: Poems on Travel, Cherry Grove Collections, May 2011
Nothing to You, Pecan Grove Press, March 2008
Shameless, Cherry Grove Collections, November 2007
Three Hours to Burn a Body: Poems on Travel, Cherry Grove Collections, May 2011
Nothing to You, Pecan Grove Press, March 2008
Shameless, Cherry Grove Collections, November 2007
Work Anthologized
"Animal Bodies," Good Eats: 32 Essays on Eating Ethically, eds. Jennifer Cognard-Black and Melissa A. Goldwaite, NYU Press, 2023
"Grief and Fire," Solastagia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World, ed. Paul Bogard, University of Virginia Press, 2022
"Animal Bodies," Ethical Eating, eds. Jennifer Cognard-Black and Melissa A. Goldthwaite, 2022
"Catching the Next Wave," Writer's Stories in Motion: Healing, Joy, and Triumph, ed Laura A. Gray Rosendale, Peter Lang, 2020
"Wingmom," Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 13, ed. Lavinia Spalding, Travelers Tales, 2020
"Apocalypse at the Safeway," Republic of Apples, Democracy of Oranges: New Eco-Poetry from China and the U.S., eds. Tony Barnstone and Ming Di, University of Hawaii Press, 2019
“A Kiss for the Dying," The Kiss: Intimacies from Writers, edited by Brian Turner, W.W. Norton, February 2018
"Skeleton,” Dead and Undead Poems: Zombies, Ghosts, Vampires and Devils edited by Tony Barnstone and Michelle Mitchell-Foust. Everyman's Library, 2014
“Sportfucking in the South,” Southern Sin: True Stories of the Sultry South and Women Behaving Badly , In Fact Books, 2013
“The Mighty Big Love Test,” The Best Women's Travel Writing 2013: True Stories from Around the World. Travelers' Tales, 2013
“Eight Hours,” Tahoe Blues: Short Lit on Life at the Lake, Bona Fide Books, 2012
“The Ghost of Muir Pass,” The Pacific Crest Trailside Reader: California, The Mountaineers Press, 2011
“Abortion Ghazal,” A Generation Defining Itself, Vol. 8, MW Enterprises, 2010
“In this Way the Soul Leaves the Body,” X Stories: The Personal Side of the Fragile X Syndrome, Flying Trout Press, 2006
"Grief and Fire," Solastagia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World, ed. Paul Bogard, University of Virginia Press, 2022
"Animal Bodies," Ethical Eating, eds. Jennifer Cognard-Black and Melissa A. Goldthwaite, 2022
"Catching the Next Wave," Writer's Stories in Motion: Healing, Joy, and Triumph, ed Laura A. Gray Rosendale, Peter Lang, 2020
"Wingmom," Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 13, ed. Lavinia Spalding, Travelers Tales, 2020
"Apocalypse at the Safeway," Republic of Apples, Democracy of Oranges: New Eco-Poetry from China and the U.S., eds. Tony Barnstone and Ming Di, University of Hawaii Press, 2019
“A Kiss for the Dying," The Kiss: Intimacies from Writers, edited by Brian Turner, W.W. Norton, February 2018
"Skeleton,” Dead and Undead Poems: Zombies, Ghosts, Vampires and Devils edited by Tony Barnstone and Michelle Mitchell-Foust. Everyman's Library, 2014
“Sportfucking in the South,” Southern Sin: True Stories of the Sultry South and Women Behaving Badly , In Fact Books, 2013
“The Mighty Big Love Test,” The Best Women's Travel Writing 2013: True Stories from Around the World. Travelers' Tales, 2013
“Eight Hours,” Tahoe Blues: Short Lit on Life at the Lake, Bona Fide Books, 2012
“The Ghost of Muir Pass,” The Pacific Crest Trailside Reader: California, The Mountaineers Press, 2011
“Abortion Ghazal,” A Generation Defining Itself, Vol. 8, MW Enterprises, 2010
“In this Way the Soul Leaves the Body,” X Stories: The Personal Side of the Fragile X Syndrome, Flying Trout Press, 2006
Creative Nonfiction and Travel Writing
"Gaps and Silences," Ploughshares, Summer 2024
"Close to the Truth," Multiplicity, Spring 2024
"How to Piss Off a Tahoe Local," Moonshine Ink (April 2024)
"The Same Story" republished in Narratively (March 2024)
"Signs of Imminent Death" The Linden Review (December 2023)
"The Essay Determines How it Will Begin," Short Reads (July 2023)
"Fire, Then Ice: Are the Mountains Around my California Town Going to Collapse? The New York Times (March 2023)
"Choosing my Path: How the Right to Abortion Made my Authentic Life Possible," Adventure Sports Journal (August 2022)
"Dreaming in the Pyrocene" Terrain.org (May 2022)
"Mother Keeps Daddy on the Shelf" The Rumpus (March 2022)
"Bone & Skin," Brevity (September 2021)
"The Same Story," Creative Nonfiction, Issue 75: Celebrating a Milestone (May 2021)
"Animal Bodies," Wanderlust Journal (April 2021)
"I Acknowledge Nobody," Brevity Blog (March 2021)
"2020 Has Gone to the Dogs," Elephant Journal (December 2020)
"An Imposter's Guide to Zoom Yoga," Elephant Journal (December 2020)
"My Readers Hated Me. Good" Brevity Blog (December 2020)
"Traveling Alone," Wanderlust (October 2020)
"Finding Your Audience: Writing to the Younger Self," Brevity Blog (October 2020)
"The Asshole in the Express Lane," Defenestration (May 2020)
"In Love with the World," Hunger Mountain (May 2020)
"Advice for the AWP Newbie from an AWP Oldie," Brevity (February 2020)
"Wearing her Eyeshadow," Tiny Love Stories, The New York Times (January 2020)
"Odds Are," Hippocampus (December 2019)
"The Biggest Loser, or How to Start Your Own Rejection Club," Brevity Blog (September 2019)
"The Red Canoe," The Midnight Oil (Summer 2019)
"5 Tips for Great Sex (Writing)" Creative Nonfiction (Summer 2019)
"The Offer of a Two-Night Stand, When Just One Would Do," Longreads (July 2019)
"The Men in Charge of our Bodies," Santa Fe Writers' Project: Abortion Ban Issue (July 2019)
"The Perfect Writing Group in 5 Easy Tips," Brevity (May 2019)
"The Goddess Party," Unlikely Stories (March 2019)
"Are You a Tourist or a Traveler?" Wanderlust (December 2018)
"Soliloquy," Superstition Review (December 2018)
"A Wee Scottish Tour," Matador (November 2018)
"My Love Letter to Thousand Oaks," CNN (November 2018)
"Breaking the Codes," The Rumpus (October 2018)
"No One Here Named Me," The Normal School (October 2018)
"Snowed In," Wanderlust (June 2018)
"The Hotel Cadiz," Creative Nonfiction (Spring 2018)
"Hawks and Other Flying Things," River Teeth (Spring 2018)
"Along the Ganges," Litro Magazine (February 2018)
"Bargaining, or the Third Stage of Grief," Matador (December 2017)
"Come Talk to Me in 3,000 Years," Litro Magazine (May 2017)
"My Letter to America," Terrain (January 2017)
"The Illuminations," 1966 (Winter, 2015)
"The Way it Can Rain," Sierra Nevada Review (2015)
"12 Incredible Places to Hit on Your Northern Nevada Road Trip," Matador (August 2015)
"The Grief Scale," Creative Nonfiction, Memoir Issue (Summer 2015)
"Friending the Dead," The Manifest Station (July 2015)
"One Degree of Separation," Matador (April 2015)
"I Want to Get Paid to Travel the World," The Writers' Chronicle (Spring 2015)
"The Essay Determines How It Will Begin," Brevity (Spring 2015)
"Why I Can't Stop Going to Burning Man," Matador (March 2015)
"Bellagio People," Matador (November 2014)
"The Hungry Bride," Mead Magazine (Fall 2014)
"The Same Story," Creative Nonfiction (Fall 2014)
"Stretching the Thigh Fat: A Yoga Lesson in Alleppey, India," Matador (July 2014)
"Backcountry Dog," The Bark (Summer 2014)
"Mother as Wingman in Santorini, Greece," Matador (May 2014)
"What I Learned at AWP: I Am Not the Star of Anyone's Life But My Own," Brevity (March 2014)
"How to Make a Fool of Yourself at AWP," Brevity (March 2014)
"Is It Time?" The Bark (Spring 2014)
"On Loving the Lie More than the Truth: A One-Night Stand in Costa Rica," Matador (March 2014)
"White People in Blackface for the Dutch Black Pete Tradition," Matador (December 2013)
"On PowerBars, Lepers, and Parade Stopping in Varanasi," Matador (November 2013)
"How to Piss off a Writer," Matador (August 2013)
"A Terrorist in the Family," Matador (August 2013)
"How to Piss off a Tahoe Local," Matador (July 2013)
"Welcome to Agra," Matador (July 2013)
"Getting a Grip on the Tahoe Rim Trail," Section Hiker (May 2013)
"Gone Missing: Lost in a Mexico Disco," Matador (May 2013)
"Scared Shitless: A Peruvian Evacuation," Matador (May 2013)
"Adopted by an Indian Mother in Kerala," Matador (April 2013)
"Naked in a Broom Closet," Matador (March 2013)
"You Can Poop in My Hat," Matador (February 2013)
"100 Boyfriends," Matador (January 2013)
"You Are Terrible to Fly With," Matador (January 2013)
"The Rejection Queen," Connotation Press (Summer 2012)
"Auntie Suzanne," Anderbo.com (Summer 2012)
"Prague and the Unbearable Truth of the Lousy Tourist," Matador (December 2011)
"Found Love at Burning Man," Matador (September, 2010)
"Mongolia: A Photo Essay," National Geographic Traveler (September 2008)
"Three Hours to Burn a Body," National Geographic Traveler (September 2008)
"The Greening of Burning Man," National Geographic Intelligent Travel (September 2008)
"Experiencing Nadaam," National Geographic Intelligent Travel (July 2008)
"The Steppes of Mongolia," National Geographic Intelligent Travel (July 2008)
"Dating in Mongolia," National Geographic Intelligent Travel (July 2008)
"Gandan Monastery," National Geographic Intelligent Travel (July 2008)
"The Real Mongolia," National Geographic Intelligent Travel (July 2008)
"Genghis Khan at the Disco," National Geographic Intelligent Travel (July 2008)
"Close to the Truth," Multiplicity, Spring 2024
"How to Piss Off a Tahoe Local," Moonshine Ink (April 2024)
"The Same Story" republished in Narratively (March 2024)
"Signs of Imminent Death" The Linden Review (December 2023)
"The Essay Determines How it Will Begin," Short Reads (July 2023)
"Fire, Then Ice: Are the Mountains Around my California Town Going to Collapse? The New York Times (March 2023)
"Choosing my Path: How the Right to Abortion Made my Authentic Life Possible," Adventure Sports Journal (August 2022)
"Dreaming in the Pyrocene" Terrain.org (May 2022)
"Mother Keeps Daddy on the Shelf" The Rumpus (March 2022)
"Bone & Skin," Brevity (September 2021)
"The Same Story," Creative Nonfiction, Issue 75: Celebrating a Milestone (May 2021)
"Animal Bodies," Wanderlust Journal (April 2021)
"I Acknowledge Nobody," Brevity Blog (March 2021)
"2020 Has Gone to the Dogs," Elephant Journal (December 2020)
"An Imposter's Guide to Zoom Yoga," Elephant Journal (December 2020)
"My Readers Hated Me. Good" Brevity Blog (December 2020)
"Traveling Alone," Wanderlust (October 2020)
"Finding Your Audience: Writing to the Younger Self," Brevity Blog (October 2020)
"The Asshole in the Express Lane," Defenestration (May 2020)
"In Love with the World," Hunger Mountain (May 2020)
"Advice for the AWP Newbie from an AWP Oldie," Brevity (February 2020)
"Wearing her Eyeshadow," Tiny Love Stories, The New York Times (January 2020)
"Odds Are," Hippocampus (December 2019)
"The Biggest Loser, or How to Start Your Own Rejection Club," Brevity Blog (September 2019)
"The Red Canoe," The Midnight Oil (Summer 2019)
"5 Tips for Great Sex (Writing)" Creative Nonfiction (Summer 2019)
"The Offer of a Two-Night Stand, When Just One Would Do," Longreads (July 2019)
"The Men in Charge of our Bodies," Santa Fe Writers' Project: Abortion Ban Issue (July 2019)
"The Perfect Writing Group in 5 Easy Tips," Brevity (May 2019)
"The Goddess Party," Unlikely Stories (March 2019)
"Are You a Tourist or a Traveler?" Wanderlust (December 2018)
"Soliloquy," Superstition Review (December 2018)
"A Wee Scottish Tour," Matador (November 2018)
"My Love Letter to Thousand Oaks," CNN (November 2018)
"Breaking the Codes," The Rumpus (October 2018)
"No One Here Named Me," The Normal School (October 2018)
"Snowed In," Wanderlust (June 2018)
"The Hotel Cadiz," Creative Nonfiction (Spring 2018)
"Hawks and Other Flying Things," River Teeth (Spring 2018)
"Along the Ganges," Litro Magazine (February 2018)
"Bargaining, or the Third Stage of Grief," Matador (December 2017)
"Come Talk to Me in 3,000 Years," Litro Magazine (May 2017)
"My Letter to America," Terrain (January 2017)
"The Illuminations," 1966 (Winter, 2015)
"The Way it Can Rain," Sierra Nevada Review (2015)
"12 Incredible Places to Hit on Your Northern Nevada Road Trip," Matador (August 2015)
"The Grief Scale," Creative Nonfiction, Memoir Issue (Summer 2015)
"Friending the Dead," The Manifest Station (July 2015)
"One Degree of Separation," Matador (April 2015)
"I Want to Get Paid to Travel the World," The Writers' Chronicle (Spring 2015)
"The Essay Determines How It Will Begin," Brevity (Spring 2015)
"Why I Can't Stop Going to Burning Man," Matador (March 2015)
"Bellagio People," Matador (November 2014)
"The Hungry Bride," Mead Magazine (Fall 2014)
"The Same Story," Creative Nonfiction (Fall 2014)
"Stretching the Thigh Fat: A Yoga Lesson in Alleppey, India," Matador (July 2014)
"Backcountry Dog," The Bark (Summer 2014)
"Mother as Wingman in Santorini, Greece," Matador (May 2014)
"What I Learned at AWP: I Am Not the Star of Anyone's Life But My Own," Brevity (March 2014)
"How to Make a Fool of Yourself at AWP," Brevity (March 2014)
"Is It Time?" The Bark (Spring 2014)
"On Loving the Lie More than the Truth: A One-Night Stand in Costa Rica," Matador (March 2014)
"White People in Blackface for the Dutch Black Pete Tradition," Matador (December 2013)
"On PowerBars, Lepers, and Parade Stopping in Varanasi," Matador (November 2013)
"How to Piss off a Writer," Matador (August 2013)
"A Terrorist in the Family," Matador (August 2013)
"How to Piss off a Tahoe Local," Matador (July 2013)
"Welcome to Agra," Matador (July 2013)
"Getting a Grip on the Tahoe Rim Trail," Section Hiker (May 2013)
"Gone Missing: Lost in a Mexico Disco," Matador (May 2013)
"Scared Shitless: A Peruvian Evacuation," Matador (May 2013)
"Adopted by an Indian Mother in Kerala," Matador (April 2013)
"Naked in a Broom Closet," Matador (March 2013)
"You Can Poop in My Hat," Matador (February 2013)
"100 Boyfriends," Matador (January 2013)
"You Are Terrible to Fly With," Matador (January 2013)
"The Rejection Queen," Connotation Press (Summer 2012)
"Auntie Suzanne," Anderbo.com (Summer 2012)
"Prague and the Unbearable Truth of the Lousy Tourist," Matador (December 2011)
"Found Love at Burning Man," Matador (September, 2010)
"Mongolia: A Photo Essay," National Geographic Traveler (September 2008)
"Three Hours to Burn a Body," National Geographic Traveler (September 2008)
"The Greening of Burning Man," National Geographic Intelligent Travel (September 2008)
"Experiencing Nadaam," National Geographic Intelligent Travel (July 2008)
"The Steppes of Mongolia," National Geographic Intelligent Travel (July 2008)
"Dating in Mongolia," National Geographic Intelligent Travel (July 2008)
"Gandan Monastery," National Geographic Intelligent Travel (July 2008)
"The Real Mongolia," National Geographic Intelligent Travel (July 2008)
"Genghis Khan at the Disco," National Geographic Intelligent Travel (July 2008)
Selected Poetry
"Attending a Virtual Baby Shower While the World Outside Is Burning," The Red Canary (March 2023)
"Keep Your Numbers Down," Lady, Liberty, Lit (May 2017)
"Incan Wall" and "Shark Attack," Terrain (Spring 2009)
"Rain in Venice," Valparaiso Poetry Review (Summer 2009)
"The Figure" and "Her Need," Sacramento News & Review (Spring 2008)
"Surreal Landscapes" and "Running with an Old Dog," The Smoking Poet (Spring 2008)
"Lure," Miller's Pond Online (Winter 2008)
"She Prays to Richard Hugo,” The Adirondack Review (Fall 2003)
"Keep Your Numbers Down," Lady, Liberty, Lit (May 2017)
"Incan Wall" and "Shark Attack," Terrain (Spring 2009)
"Rain in Venice," Valparaiso Poetry Review (Summer 2009)
"The Figure" and "Her Need," Sacramento News & Review (Spring 2008)
"Surreal Landscapes" and "Running with an Old Dog," The Smoking Poet (Spring 2008)
"Lure," Miller's Pond Online (Winter 2008)
"She Prays to Richard Hugo,” The Adirondack Review (Fall 2003)
Book Reviews
Gayle Brandeis Gives Voice to the Dead in Many Restless Concerns: The Victims of the Countess Báthory Speak in Chorus (a testimony), Bookin' with Sunny, 2020
A Landscape Divided: Gardening Secrets of the Dead by Lee Herrick, Terrain, 2012
A Landscape Divided: Gardening Secrets of the Dead by Lee Herrick, Terrain, 2012