My first novel, Children and Lunatics (Black Lawrence Press, 2016), won the Big Moose Prize and my novel Home Everywhere was published by Black Lawrence Press in 2018. My essays have appeared in Salon, Sports Illustrated, The Sun, Tropic Magazine (of The Miami Herald), Islands Magazine and a number of anthologies, and I have won finalist and semi-finalist awards from New Millennium, Glimmer Train, Writers@Work [2], the University of New Orleans Writing Contest for Study Abroad, the Travelers' Tales Best Travel Writing Solas Awards for 2016, Carve Magazine's Raymond Carver Short Story Contest for 2016, Cutthroat, a Journal of the Arts Rick DeMarinis Short Story Contest for 2016, Leapfrog Press Fiction Award for 2020 and Tucson Festival of Books Literary Festival 2021 (second place winner in Fiction).
I grew up in small towns in northern Montana and attended college at the University of Montana.  I have a BA in Music from UM and an MA in Ethnomusicology from the University of Washington. I live in Missoula, Montana, where I study and perform Balinese music as a member of the Missoula, Montana community gamelan, Manik Harum.