Selections of Past Writing

Creative Nonfiction

“The Sound of Absence,” On Permanence Anthology, ed. by Briana Gwin, The Seventh Wave, Jan. 2024.

“Baby Got Going: Longing and Leaving in High Fidelity,” Bright Wall/Dark Room, Issue 125: Chicago, Nov. 2023.

“Seeing Pink”, Fourth Genre, Spring 2023, Vol. 25, No. 1.

“The Hardest Part of Writing My Memoir was Telling My Family About It”, Electric Literature, Dec. 13, 2022.

“The Time Machine”, december, Vol. 33.1, Spring/Summer 2022.

“Thirteen Covers”, Pacifica Literary Review, 18.2, May 2022.

“Cornfield Girls”, Pidgeonholes, May 25, 2022.

“The Ganzfeld Effect”, The Offing, Mar. 5, 2021.

“Rainbow Sugar”, The Normal School, Jan. 29, 2019.

"Braids & Bows", Eleven Eleven, Issue 23, Aug. 2017, California College of the Arts.

"168 Hours on the Las Vegas Strip", Hobart, June 26, 2017. 

"Easter Road Trip", Entropy Magazine, July 14, 2016.

"She's Out of My Life," Diana Woods Memorial Award in Creative Nonfiction Finalist, Lunch Ticket, Summer/Fall 2016

Art Criticism

“Eirik Johnson’s Road to Nowhere.” The Brooklyn Rail, Mar. 2022.

“The Nuances of Loneliness.” Hyperallergic, Aug. 8, 2021.

“Residential Intimacies: Shoccara Marcus Photographs the Past and the Present at Wa Na Wari”, Variable West, Aug. 2021.

“Hard to See: Life, Death and the Art of John Akomfrah.” ARCADE, Summer 2020.

“Hank Willis Thomas Opens Up Space for Interpretation, Which is Sometimes Risky,” Hyperallergic, November 26, 2019.

“A Poignant Tour of A Disappearing Queer Neighborhood in Portland,” Hyperallergic, October 29, 2019.

"A Tlingit Artist's Contemporary Take on her Vanishing Culture", Hyperallergic, January 12, 2018.

"Pull Me Closer: A View Inside John Grade's Middle Fork", ARCADE, September 2017.

"Critic's Picks: Seattle", Art Ltd., May/Jun. 2017.

"A New Vancouver Triennial Contends with Making Art in a Gentrified City", Hyperallergic, March 7, 2017.

"Artist Profile: Juventino Aranda", Art Ltd., Jan./Feb. 2017.

"Undeniable: Edward Burtynsky's Photographs of a Changing World", ARCADE (feature writer and editor), December 2016.

"Michael Ottersen: Logic and Intuition", Two Coats of Paint, October 28, 2016.

"At the Portland Biennial, Artists Make a Case for Living on the Outskirts", Hyperallergic, September 13, 2016.

"Considering What Artists Can (and Can't) Do in a Survey of Northwest Artists", Hyperallergic, August 29, 2016.

"Confronting Homelessness Close to Home, with Help from Martha Rosler", Hyperallergic, February 29, 2016.

"The Seattle Art Fair Arrives, with Dealers on the Hunt for Tech Money", ARTnews, August 1, 2015.

"American Beauties: Music Videos Just Want to Have Fun in a New Show at EMP", The Stranger, June 24, 2014. 

"The Turbulent Studio: Ned Kahn's Unpredictable Public Art" (interview), ARCADE, June 2013.

"Unsilenced Film Stills: The Images and Words of Carrie Mae Weems", The Stranger, April 17, 2013.

"Gold Digger: King Tut in a Corporate World", The Stranger, May 29, 2012.

"Yuki Nakamura and Gretchen Bennett at Howard House", The Stranger, January 12, 2010.

"The Best Museum in America", The Stranger, October 16, 2008.

Architecture Articles and Interviews

“Future100: Eve Tobey”, METROPOLIS, Mar. 2022.

“Metropolis Magazine Responsible Disruptors” feature, METROPOLIS, Jan/Feb 2022. Articles on the Open Source Homeless Initiative, Upstream, Urban Sequoia, Drift, and Hot Heart projects.

“Seattle’s SAAS Middle School Connects Students and their Surroundings”, METROPOLIS online, April 20, 2021.

“NBBJ Reenvisions a Piece of Seattle Infrastructure as a Sustainable Civic Landmark,” METROPOLIS online, August 20, 2019.

“How Olson Kundig Renovated and Expanded Its Seattle Office”, METROPOLIS, June 2019.

“The Living Future unConference Emphasizes Equity in Sustainable Design”, METROPOLIS online, May 10, 2019.

“The Restaurant That Brings Whimsical Design to the Amazon Spheres”, METROPOLIS online, April 1, 2019.