Published Works

 

- Books -

The Clean Daughter :

A Cross-Continental Memoir

  • NDSU Press, 2022

Selected by the Library of Congress,

Center for the Book, as a

Great Reads Book 2024!

So Many Africas: Six Years in a Zambian Village

  • Autumn House Press

Winner of the Autumn House Nonfiction Prize

Winner of the Sarton Women’s Literary Award

- ANTHOLOGIES -

1 — The Best Spiritual Writing 2012, Philip Zaleski Editor, Penguin Books, 2011

2 — Becoming: What Makes a Woman, University of Nebraska Press, 2012

3 — The Magic of Memoir: Inspiration for the Writing Journey, She Writes Press, 2016

4 — The Wonder Years: 40 Women over 40 on Aging, Faith, Beauty, and Strength, Kregel Publications, 2018

LITERARY JOURNALS

18 — Rattle Poetry, Print Issue 75, March 1, 2022. “How Much Do You Weigh?”

17 — Rattle Poetry, October 4, 2020, Fatigue

16 — The Pinch, U. of Memphis, Spring 2011, Vol. 31, Issue 1, Oral Histories

15 — Gettysburg Review, Editor Peter Stitt, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg Pennsylvania Winter 2010, Volume 23: Issue 4: Deviled Eggs

14 — River Teeth, Editors Joe Mackall and Dan Lehman; Ashland U. Ohio, Vol. 12., No. 1, 2010, Burial Cloth Removed

13 — Under the Sun, Editor Heidemarie Weidner, Tennessee Technological University 2009, There’s a Hole in the Bucket

12 — Relief: A Christian Literacy Expression, Editor Kimberly Culbertson Volume 3, Issue 1, 2009, Woman of Sikongo: A Lament

11 — Image Journal, Editor Gregory Wolfe, Seattle Pacific University, Issue 58, July 2008, Asking for Salt

10 — #27 May 2008, There’s Things

9 — Brevity, Editor Dinty Moore

8 — Appalachee Review, Editors Michael Trammell and Mary Jane Ryals Tallahassee, Florida, #58, May 2008, Saran Wrap

7 — Relief: A Christian Literary Expression, Editor Kimberly Culbertson Vol. 2, Issue 3, Summer 2008, Letters Home from Sunshine Mountain

6 — Relief: A Christian Literary Expression, Editor Kimberly Culbertson Vol.1, Issue 3, Spring 2007, Dill

5 — Minnesota Literature Feb 2007, On With Writing

4 — Minnesota Literature, Vol. 31, No. 5, Jan. 2006, Frame of My Joy

3 — The Talking Stick, Editors Sharon Harris and Tarah Wolff Jackpine Writers' Bloc, Vol.14, 2005, Finding Your Way Home, Mai

2 — UND North Country Spring 2005, To Remember

1 — Dust & Fire, Editors Lauren Cobb and Susan Hauser and Rose Weaver. Bemidji University, Vol. XIX, March 2005, SiLozi Song