The writer after a two mile run at Ron Russell Middle School track in east Portland.

Your job for the WPA during the Great Depression was to build this stone bridge over Whatcom Creek in Washington state. Would you ever aspire to do anything else?

I wonder if any library would like to adopt my book for their annual “Everybody Reads” project.

The beautiful new issue of Clackamas Literary Review has arrived. Features Maria McLeod interviewing me re my new collection, The Divide. Btw they’re open for submissions. Don’t sleep on this one!

Thorn is out of print, but I recently saw it at Manzanita News & Espresso in sunny Manzanita by the Sea. The coffee is worth the trip. The book is too! My first book won the 2013 Chandra Prize at BkMk Press, and later won IPPY gold in the collection category.

Kent Nelson is the greatest living short story writer you've never heard of. He offered to do a book swap with me. That's some asymmetry right there:

Heyo! Thank you, Pangyrus team!

My favorite cinema dog of all time is known as just plain “Dog.”

So this photographer, K.B. Dixon, read about my Oregon Literary Fellowship and asked me to sit for a portrait for his series on the Oregon Arts Watch website. The result:

Wolf! I went for a hike near Playa Summer Lake. Apparently I had company.

Here is my third collection, Taylor’s version:

Born too late! My writing is essentially doomed because my preferred press is the defunct but brilliant Black Sparrow (not that they would have had me).

Saturday seems like forever ago.