Publication & event news

 

Arkana Launch Party, 6 p.m. CT April 29 via Zoom. I'll be reading my essay, To the Strangers on Flight SY770, which won the Editor's Choice Award. Contact me for details.

 

​My review of Cat to was published by Rain Taxi Review in the Spring print issue.

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My poem, "After the storm" will appear in Great Lakes Review in 2026.​

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​​​Honored to have earned three 2025 Certificates of Excellence from the Cat Writers' Association for my 2024 rescue-related writing. 

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Past events

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St. Patty's Day reading and music at the University Club in St. Paul on March 17, 2026, 7:30 p.m. With Barry Foy, James Silas Rogers, Thomas Dillon Redshaw and Tim Nolan. 

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Read my essay, "Holding," from the Saint Paul Almanac (2025) at the American School of Storytelling, Sunday Dec. 21, 2025. 

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Sunday May 5, 2024 at Ginkgo Coffeehouse reading with Michael Kleber-Diggs, Margaret Hasse and others in support of PeaceMaker Minnesota.

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2024 Hartz Newcomer Cat Communications Award winner from the Cat Writers' Association.

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Wednesday, June 28, 2023 6 p.m. at Next Chapter Books, St. Paul. Mary read with Sandra Eliason, from the anthology, True Stories About Love, Volume 2.

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June 8, 2022, Moth Grand Slam, Pantages Theater

 

May 5, 2021, 8 p.m. ET, Wayfinding Poetry Reading, with Guest Park Ranger Ashley Waymouth. View online.

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