SAMPLE ESSAYS
"Purple" in Kenyon Review
On the beauty of coral reefs as a healing balm
"Seas of Change" in The American Scholar
Raja Ampat's reefs have withstood collapse—but for how long?
"Trees" in The Southeast Review (nominated for a 2018 Pushcart Prize)
On a maple tree, the multiverse, and time travel
"Innocence" in Kenyon Review (selected as Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2016)
On a beloved painting by Agnes Martin and a coral reef in Palau
"Otter" in The Rumpus
On queer self-understanding and wild otters
"Ice" in The Southern Review
On vulnerability and an ice moon of Saturn
"Beacons" in Prairie Schooner
What does poetic vision really mean?
"One Whale Shark Eye" in Mudlark
Further discussion of "The 23rd-Century Nature Poem"
"The 23rd-Century Nature Poem" in The American Poetry Review
What kind of nature poems, given the reality of climate change, ring hollow?
"Reef Album" in Essay Daily
A craft essay on creative nonfiction as spiritual, civilizational surgery
“'Immortality on Their Faces': The Persistence of Autobiography of Red" in AGNI
Why we're still savoring Anne Carson's masterpiece
On the beauty of coral reefs as a healing balm
"Seas of Change" in The American Scholar
Raja Ampat's reefs have withstood collapse—but for how long?
"Trees" in The Southeast Review (nominated for a 2018 Pushcart Prize)
On a maple tree, the multiverse, and time travel
"Innocence" in Kenyon Review (selected as Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2016)
On a beloved painting by Agnes Martin and a coral reef in Palau
"Otter" in The Rumpus
On queer self-understanding and wild otters
"Ice" in The Southern Review
On vulnerability and an ice moon of Saturn
"Beacons" in Prairie Schooner
What does poetic vision really mean?
"One Whale Shark Eye" in Mudlark
Further discussion of "The 23rd-Century Nature Poem"
"The 23rd-Century Nature Poem" in The American Poetry Review
What kind of nature poems, given the reality of climate change, ring hollow?
"Reef Album" in Essay Daily
A craft essay on creative nonfiction as spiritual, civilizational surgery
“'Immortality on Their Faces': The Persistence of Autobiography of Red" in AGNI
Why we're still savoring Anne Carson's masterpiece