Selected Essays
"Chapter 2: Momentum - Carrie & Erin Martin." Resilience.org, November 2024. Excerpt from From the Ground Up: The Women Revolutionizing Regenerative Agriculture.
"The Saving Grace." Terrain.org, July 2024. Included in the Climate Stories in Action series.
"Disturbance." Ninth Letter, Fall/Winter 2022-23. Winner of the Ninth Letter/Illinois Regenerative Agriculture Initiative Regeneration Literary Contest. Special Mention in Pushcart Prize XLIX: Best of the Small Presses 2025.
"Grief in Miniature." Open: Journal of Arts and Letters, August 2021.
"Summers Like Watermelons." South Dakota Magazine, July/August 2020.
"What the Prairie Dog Knows." TriQuarterly, Winter 2020. Included on the special mention list in Pushcart Prize XLVI: Best of the Small Presses 2022.
"Atlas." Hotel Amerika, Vol. 17, Spring 2019. Included on the notable essays list in The Best American Essays 2020.
"A Farm Girl's Search for the Promise of Regenerative Agriculture." Excerpted from One Size Fits None. Terrain: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments, March 2019.
"Radioactive Prairie." Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment, Winter 2019. Included on the notable essays list in The Best American Science & Nature Writing 2020.
"Summers Like Watermelons." The Pinch, Fall 2018.
"No More Sunsets." Collected in Permanent Vacation: Eighteen Writers on Work on Life in Our National Parks,
Volume II, Bona Fide Books, 2018. Originally published in saltfront, Winter 2018.
"The McFarthest Spot." Midwestern Gothic, Summer 2018.
"In Search of Lost Grass." Kudzu House Quarterly, January 2017.
"Flight Animals." Sweet, September 2016.
"Ticks." Grist Journal, September 2016.
"Greyhound." The Rumpus, January 2016. Winner of the 2016 Payton James Freeman Essay Prize.
“Reforms, Not Reformers.” SCOPE, February 2014.
“More Cows, Moving Faster.” SCOPE, August 2013.
“The Cursed Class of 2009.” The Chronicle Review, October 2009.
Short Stories
"After the Aquifer." Terrain.org, March 2021.
"The Dog in the Desert." Collected in Stories That Need to Be Told 2020, TulipTree Press, 2020. Honorable Mention for the 2018 New Letters Publication Award in Fiction.
"Century Village." South Dakota Magazine, January/February 2020.
"City Boy." Black Dandy, January 2019.
"The Wickedest Thing They Ever Saw." Devil's Lake, Fall 2014. Runner-Up for the 2014 Driftless Prize in Fiction.
Articles
"Regenerative agriculture can make farmers stewards of the land again." The Conversation, February 11, 2019.
"A New Year's Resolution Worth Keeping." University of Nebraska Press Blog, January 8, 2019.
"Jo Ann Beard on the Writer's Life: Balancing Writing, Teaching, and Publishing--and What Really Matters." Coastlines Literary Magazine, Spring 2015.