I am a poet and novelist. My writing is inspired by having grown up in rural Montana, where I still live on a small farm, raising Quarter Horses and Galloway cattle. I spend as much time as I can in the outdoors, hiking, trail running, and horseback riding in the desert hills near my home or in the nearby mountain ranges, the Pryors and the Beartooths. My English shepherd, Brydie, is almost always at my heels.
In my poems I seek to describe the intersection of the human and the more-than-human world. As a novelist I strive to tell the stories of the “everyday†citizen in history, looking at history through the eyes of people who experienced the ebb and flow of life without the renown afforded historical figures.
I hold a MFA in Poetry from Spalding University and a MFA in Fiction from University of Montana. Currently, I teach English at Joliet High School, Montana.