In September, I published Lost Cathedral, a poetry collection that elegizes the beauty of loss and grief surrounding human-caused extinctions. Published by Cornerstone Press (University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point), I worked on the book for seven years.

I received four arts fellowships and grants (including an Idaho Commission on the Arts Literature Fellowship) and completed five artist residencies in three states in my relentless pursuit of capturing emotional authenticity in the book, artistically, historically, and scientifically.

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