Word witch, sculptor of sentences, I remember sitting down at my dad's manual Underwood and plonking out a paragraph, then two, then several. I loved that ding-clunk of the shift return, the excitement of a second page. So that's what I do, except now on a MacBook Air. 

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From 2003 to 2023, I was the fiction editor of Contrary Magazine. All three of us founding editors worked together all 20 years, and I'm so grateful for that experience. As fiction editor, I the pleasure of publishing so many writers whom I admire—Tania Hershman, Jenn Givhan, Corey Mesler, Steve Mitchell, and so many others. 

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To keep body and soul together, I work in communications at Western Washington University on a campus that is a Swiss army knife of  sculpture garden, arboretum, and small farm. There are as many deer as students and there are more than 14,000 students. 

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I love film and art and taking photos.

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I live in Bellingham, Washington home of excellent beer, even better coffee, my sweet little family, and the launching pad for The Trucks, ODESZA, and Death Cab for Cutie.