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Narrative Maps, Top Trails Seattle

“Last fall, I went for an early morning apology around Prospect Park: a three-mile run after a night of lagers and little sleep. Afterward, I sat in the shade on a stonewall and, at the age of thirty, I ate my first pickle.” Small Mind, America (PANK Magazine)
“I am in no rush this evening. It is eight o’clock and the sun doesn’t set for another six hours, but most importantly, the liquor store doesn’t close for another two.” — When Eagles Attack (Narratively)
“The Lone Sailor was my sole companion this past summer. I found him sitting by his lonesome self on a shelf in the break room of the seafood processing facility where I was working in Unalaska, Alaska.” The Lone Sailor (Nowhere Magazine)

w/ Melissa Febos for The Seventh Wave: “Narrative facilitates communication: how do we tell another person about our wounds if we don’t have a way to contextualize them inside of ourselves?” — Wounds, Stories as Sense-Making, and the Power of Critical Distance.
w/ Aisha Fukushima for The Seventh Wave: “Working collaboratively across many different nations with different folks, it’s important to respect the cypher: everyone has different elements to contribute and even different strengths.” — RAPtivism, Hip-Hop as a Tool for Social Change, and De-Centering the Narrative
w/ Steph Jagger for The Seventh Wave: “I didn’t set out on this particular journey to do become undone. The journeys that I go on now, I do.” — Big Nature, Our Relationship to Fear, and the Need to Reexamine Goal Setting
w/ Vanishing Seattle for The Seventh Wave: “I don’t think vanishing should be the end of the story. This is the beginning and the continuation of what I hope.” — They Want Us To Forget
w/ Meline Toumani for The Rumpus: “If I had delivered the book anywhere near my original deadline, I never would have gotten to the real truth of it.” — The Rumpus Interview with Meline Toumani
w/ John Reed for The Rumpus: “The way that we control the message in the United States is not to censor people, it’s to ignore them. Orwell was very aware of that and wrote about it.” — The Rumpus Interview with John Reed

by Magic Cabinet: Amplifying Community Voices with The Seventh Wave, about Community Anthologies, a cohort-based storytelling platform I built for The Seventh Wave.

in Forbes: Vineyard Farmers Are The Focus Of Washington Wine Commission’s Newest Ambassador Program, about Breaking Ground, a farmer-ambassador program I built for Washington Wine.
on Heritage Radio Network: Handwritten Recipes and Marginalia, a conversation between host Linda Pelaccio and guests Rozanne Gold and Bretty Rawson, featuring handwritten and Rozanne’s column, Handwritten Recipes.
for Hoka One One’s Top Trails Seattle episode: Narrative Maps, about my experiences in trail running, the narrative maps I make, and an obsession with unwords.
in The New York Times: To Whom It Should Concern, about a digital exhibit I curated with Teens Take Charge for Handwritten.
in Poets & Writers: The Politics of Gatekeeping: On Reconsidering the Ethics of Blind Submissions, about The Seventh Wave’s approach to submissions in literary publishing, written by ED Joyce Chen.

Best Beverage Website, www.washingtonwine.org, Web Awards, 2022: for the 2-year, $1M build I did for Washington Wine, which decoupled a 15-year proprietary CMS, CRM, and ERP into individual but integrated platforms.
Finalist, Best Magazine: General Excellence, The Seventh Wave, Firecracker Awards, CLMP, 2021: for two of the issues we published during the pandemic.
Artist Residency, Banff Center for Arts & Creativity, 2020: for an in-progress nonfiction manuscript, What Happened To You.