Sample works include anthologies, a chapbook (sold out), and a life-writing workbook.
Works-in-progress include a collaboration with women scholars and writers (TBA).
BOOKS
Body & Soul: Stories for Skeptics and Seekers (Caitlin Press 2019).
With a foreword by Alison Pick.
The first anthology of its kind. Women writers & poets explore their connection to the sacred. See why writing guru Sarah Selecky calls this collection “a revelation.”
4.75/5 on Goodreads.
Behind-the-scenes: Contributors Jagtar Kaur Atwal, Carolina Echeverria, Eufemia Fantetti, Pam Johnson, Tamara Jong, Jonina Kirton, Heidi Reimer, Sandra Wabegijig and more open up about this groundbreaking work in All Lit Ups’ “When Words like ‘Spiritual’ Make you Flinch”
ORDER from your favourite independent bookstore or online retailer.
ASK your local library to order copies. START a discussion group.
CONTACT me to chat.
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IN-PROGRESS:
Sainted Dirt. A memoir. Shame and the sacred in the lives of girls and women.
Research and writing supported by the Ontario Arts Council and the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund.
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Temple in a Teapot: In Which the Pilgrim Carts the Remains of her Good Dishes to the first Mormon Temple, in Ohio (West Meadow/Harland Press 2010).
Whimsy. Deviance. Devotion. How much trouble can one woman be? Explore the sublime and the suppressed in American religious history.
Limited edition chapbook. Illustration by Wesley W. Bates. Book design by Pamela J. Woodland.
Launched on the Our Visions, Our Voices 1,000-mile women writers tour throughout the American West with Joanna Brooks, Lisa Hadley, Holly Welker, and more.
(sold out)
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Stories in my Neighbours Faith: Narratives from World Religions in Canada (Toronto: United Church Publishing House, 1999)
Introducing faith leaders and spirit guides on the big and small stories that sustain them.
Anthology used in higher education and in multicultural settings.
(out of print)
MAGAZINES (sample)
The New Quarterly has been my literary home since 2003; see online interviews and works in print.
“Sign Language,” The Humber Literary Review, Fall/Winter 2018-9. Nominated for National Magazine Award.
“Still Life” (fiction), Stone Voices, spring 2014. Nominated for 2015 Write Well Award.
“Invitation to the Great Potluck,” Alternatives. The Environmental Literature Issue, 35/3, 2009; plus podcast interview with Peter Stock.
“Walden: Living Classic,” Alternatives. The Environmental Literature Issue 34/2, 2008.
“The Barn and the Lab,” with Ronald L Grimes in Rite out of Place: Ritual, Media and the Arts. Ronald L Grimes. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Guest editor, twin issues of The New Quarterly and Alternatives. Introductions: “Apples and Oranges: Alternatives Pairs with The New Quarterly,” The New Quarterly The Artist as Activist Issue, no. 101, 2007; and “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?” Alternatives Creative Communities Issue 32:4/5, 2006.
“Memoir and Nature Writing” and “Sharon Butala” in The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature. Ed. Bron Taylor. London and New York: Continuum, 2005.
“Off Grid: Bringing the World to Rest,” Women’s Concerns, no. 1, 2005.
“Walkerton: Re-storying a Traumatized town,” Narrative Matters Interdisciplinary Conference Proceedings (University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB), 2004.
“Community Restoration in the ‘Bad Water’ Town,” Storytelling Magazine (Sept./Oct.), 2003.
“Engaging Rural Youth through the Arts” in The Ontario Rural Council 2003 Conference Proceedings.
“The Long Road to Peace,” Mandate, February, 2001.
“A Small Dark Creature Kneeling on the Earth” in Deeply Into the Bone: Re-Inventing Rites of Passage. Life Passages Series. Ronald L. Grimes. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.