Water  and What  We Know:
​Following the Roots of a Northern Life

All the Wild Hungers:
A  Season of Cooking and Cancer

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Works in Progress

Acadie: A  Family  Ecology
forthcoming, Milkweed Editions, 2023

Acadie is a  Solnit-meets-Strayed collection of chronologically linked  essays about the solo camping trip I took  from Minnesota to Nova  Scotia to research my father’s family,  who were among the  first French-Acadians to Nova Scotia in the 1600s, deported in Le Grand  Derangement in 1755, though my five-greats grandfather remained behind in prison. I’ve been the family historian since I was seventeen, the day  I walked into my dad’s office with a childishly sketched  family tree and asked him why his  uncle and grandmother had the  same death date, and I didn’t expect the answer  to be murder. The search for untold  stories in this book is focused around the ideas of movement and migration, the story of a family written on asphalt, the movement of the Acadian Babins to Nova Scotia, their expulsion in 1755, my great-great-grandfather immigrating to Maine, my great-grandparents moving from Massachusetts to Long Beach, California, where my grandfather and his twin were born in 1924. The primary quest of this  book is in the  construction of a family archive towards telling the story of who we used to be, balanced against the construction of  a legacy for the future.

• "Beautiful Sun, in a Minor Key,"  Proximity
• Interview with Dina Relles, Proximity​
• "Romer's Gap," Terrain.org
• "Falling," forthcoming in Waxwing

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A Rhapsody in Turquoise

A collection of micro essays on food and entertaining.

• "A Rhapsody in Turquoise," forthcoming in Fourth Genre

Updraft:
the lift, drag, and craft of creative nonfiction

Intermediate-advanced nonfiction craft text designed to move beyond how-to into deep conversations about the why of nonfiction craft.

• “The Taxonomy of Nonfiction, or The Pleasures of Precision.” LitHub. 
• "Odd Objects: In Praise of the  Wunderkammer," Brevity
• “In Praise of Zero Drafts.” Essay Daily. 
• “8 Variations on the Idea of a Sentence.” Brevity. 
• "On Torque: Turns in Nonfiction," forthcoming in Writer's Chronicle
• "Wisdom and Wisdom Teeth: Against Relatability," forthcoming in CRAFT
• "Toward a Daily Writing Practice: A Credo," forthcoming in Brevity's blog
  

Galway(s)
collection of linked essays about Galway, Ireland

• “Fine, Soft Days in Galway.” Ascent.
• “Reading Galway.” Slag Glass City.
• “Edges and Fragments.” Terrain.org.