I am work on a memoir/collection of essays based in the Columbia Basin of central Washington State, in dryland wheat country. This book is a portrait of a place, of growing up a woman in that (agri)culture, and about the art and craftsmanship of blue collar work. It's about water in the desert, healing lakes, and irrigation. It's about wildfires and climate change, big farm chemicals and organic foods. About rural flight, dying family farms in America, loving and losing places, and increasingly tense rural-urban lines. It's an ode, an ache, a love song, a praise. It's full of nighthawks and coyotes, dust devils and isolation. It explores how we shape the land, and how land shapes us. It examines the cultural myths and generational stresses we carry. It's a story as big as the sky. But I'm getting it down on the page.

Follow here or on my Substack as I pin this one down.