Writing
SHORT STORIES
West Trade Review (print journal, Spring 2025)
* Grand prize winner of the 2024 Phyllis Grant Zellmer Prize for Fiction, judged by Margaret Malone
* Listen to Jessie read “[SILENCE]” aloud and talk about the inspiration behind this award-winning short story
Lost Balloon
* Nominated for inclusion in the 2024 Best Microfiction anthology
“The River,” “Agency,” and “Crickets”
The Normal School
Entropy
* Selected as the only piece of fiction included in the top 40 “Best of 2017: Most Popular Articles on Entropy”
Watershed Review
* Later selected for inclusion in Watershed Review’s 10th Anniversary Issue
HAD (previously published on Hobart)
* Selected for the top 20 “Best of 2018 - Entropy’s Favorite Online Fiction & Short Stories”
Alchemy (print journal, 50th-anniversary issue)
The Pointed Circle (print journal, issue no. 39)
POEMS
Barren Magazine
“Suppose I Always Knew” and “Immunity”
Love Is the Drug & Other Dark Poems (print anthology) • Red Light Lit Press
NONFICTION BOOK
Rethinking Paper & Ink: The Sustainable Publishing Revolution
Ooligan Press
I co-authored (along with Natalie Guidry) this book, which the Willamette Week named as one of the “Top 10 Local Books of 2011.” Expanded from the 2010 booklet of the same name (written by Janine Winters and Melissa Brumer), it provides an in-depth, critical examination of the book publishing industry, and offers viable alternatives to prompt more responsible and transparent production choices in everything from acquisitions, marketing, and design to digital options, printing, and book distribution. Rethinking Paper & Ink was also acquired as Macmillan’s in-house sustainability guide.
ARTICLE
“Gore Accused of Greenwashing”
Print article • The Portland Tribune • April 15, 2010