SELECTED WRITING AVAILABLE ONLINE

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

 

FICTION
• Arroyo Literary Review , Spring 2017: "The Volunteer Position"
• Rockhurst Review, 2003: “Juana”
• Cairn, No. 36, 2002: “Rules of Order”
• Writing on the Edge, Vol 9, No 2; 1999: "Widow's Head"
• Clackamas Literary Review, Spring 1999: "To the River"
• Notre Dame Review, Winter 1999: "Plaintiff"
• The Alembic, May, 1997: "Readiness"
• Orion, Summer 1995: "Zoo Animal Keeper I, REC-SVC-ZK"
• Caprice, 1994: "The Poet's Entry”
• American Writing, No. 4, 1992: "Them"
• Northwest Magazine, 4/21/91: "O'Keefe Sober"
• Caprice, Spring 1990: "Countess Tolstoy Queries Esquire”
• Clinton Street, 12/89: “Them, 1956"
• Spindrift 88: "The Shoat"
• Crazyquilt, March 1988: "The White Work"
• Other Voices, Spring 1988: "Blackbird"
• Seattle Weekly, 12/23/87: "Long Lay the World”
• Zyzzyva, Summer 1987: "Blue"
• The Macguffin, Fall 1986: "Lights"

NONFICTION
• Gettysburg Review, Autumn 2018: “Driving Blind”
• Juxtaprose Literary Magazine, Spring 2017: "Paradise Refused"
• Gettysburg Review, Spring 2016: “The Judicious Beauty of Memory Loss”
• Portland Magazine, Spring 2016: "Rene Sanchez: Not Without Love"
• Timberline Review, Summer/Fall 2015: “Camping Practice”
• Arroyo Literary Review, May 2015: “Old Fashioneds”
• Bellingham Review, Autumn 2013: “Decadent Music”
• The Sun, September 2008: “Judgments”
• M Review, Summer 2006: “Losing the Farm
• La Palabra y el Hombre (Veracruz), March 2005: El maestro: recuerdos de Raymond Carver”
• Portland Magazine, Winter 2002: “The Man in the Pew”
• New Rag Rising, Winter 2002: “Where Pablo Neruda First Saw the Sea”
• The Sun, November, 2001: “On Thursday, September 20"
• Gateways, Summer 2001: “Terence O’Donnell, 1924-2001"
• Writers NW, Spring 1999: "Teacher: A Memoir of Raymond Carver"
• Notre Dame Review, Summer 1998: "October Song"
• Second Opinion, April 1995: "Heart of Wisdom”
• Palo Alto Review, Spring 1994: "Stories I Never Told My Mother”
• Oregon English, Winter 1994: "Teacher”
• Left Bank, Winter 1992: "My New Father”
• Cream City Review, Spring 1991: "The Skin of the World”
• Seattle Weekly, 8/30/89: "Where the Men and Where the Women"
• Northwest Magazine (Oregonian), 4/23/89: "Readings from the Wall: Cabbage Soup”

 

PRODUCED SCRIPTS
• ¡Aumento Ya! 50-min documentary on farm labor organizing (screenwriter, PCUN, 1996)
• A Long Way to Go, 8-min dramatic film (mentor, Oregon LatinoYouth Video Project, 2000)
• La Decisión, 9-min dramatic film (script mentor, Oregon Latino Youth Video Project, 2001)

SELECTED LOCAL JOURNALISM

Eliot News
• Eliot: A Brief Chronology, Fall 2008
• Robert Dietsche’s Jumptown: The Golden Years of Portland Jazz, January 2006
• For Activist Nomad, Eliot is Now Home, Summer 2005
• Quadriplegics United Against Dependency, Summer 2004
• A Neighborhood Profile: Paul and Geneva Knauls, Summer 2003
• Roc Neuhardt: A Neighborhood Profile, Fall 2002
• Legendary Jazz Singer Nancy King Leaves Eliot, Summer 2000
• Port City Development, A History, Fall 1999

BOOK REVIEWS

Women’s Review of Books
• Jan/Feb 2016: Valeria Luiselli, The Story of My Teeth
• Nov/Dec 2014: Rebecca Mead, My Life in Middlemarch
• Nov/Dec 2012: Selected Poetry of Marilyn Buck
• March/April 2012: Christine Eber, Journey of a Tzotzil-Maya Woman of Chiapas, Mexico
• Jan/Feb 2011: Four books on incarceration: Michelle Alexander, Safiya Bukhari, etc.
• March/April 2010: Ámbar Past, Incantations: Song, Spells and Images by Mayan Women
• Nov/Dec 2008: Sylvia Sellers-García, When the Ground Turns in its Sleep
• March/April 2008: Alma M. Reed, Peregrina: Love & Death in Mexico
• May/June 2007: Camillla Townsend, Malintzin’s Choices
• May 2004: Diana Taylor & Roselyn Costantino, Holy Terrors: Latin American Women Perform
• October 2003: Cristina Rivera-Garza, No One Will See Me Cry
• July 2003: Alicia Borinsky, All Night Movie
• May 2003: Tapscott, Selected Prose Gabriela Mistral; Fiol-Matta, Queer Mother for the Nation

Human Rights Review
• June 2010: Karen Greenberg, The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo’s First 100 Days
• June 2009: Jules Boykoff, Beyond Bullets: The Suppression of Dissent in the U.S.

HISTORY

Oregon Historical Quarterly
• “Lewis Clark Cook: Building the Moving Image Archives at OHS,” Winter 2023
• “We’re going to defend ourselves.” The Portland Chapter of the Black Panther Party and the Local Media Response (with Jules Boykoff),” Fall 2010

Oregon Encyclopedia
• July 2014: Black Panther Party, Portland Chapter
• March 2010: Raymond Carver, 1938-88

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