Essays
"By Any Other Name," MacQueen’s Quinterly, January 2026.
“A Solemn Christmas in Asheville, Three Months after Hurricane Helene,” photo essay, National Catholic Reporter, December 24, 2024.
“Philadelphia Eleven’s Piccard Made History, First as a Pilot, Then as a Priest,” National Catholic Reporter, July 26, 2024.
“Carter Heyward’s New Book Calls Out Sins of White Christian Nationalism,” National Catholic Reporter, November 4, 2022.
“Philadelphia 11 Reunion Recalls Ministry of Pioneering Women Priests, "National Catholic Reporter, November 25, 2019.
“A Worn Sole,” Hashtag Queer Creative Anthology, Volume 1, 2017.
“Do You Hear What I Hear?: An AR-15 Christmas,” Patheos, December 2016.
“That Little Blue Boy," Sugar Mule Literary Magazine, 2013.
Poems
“Quiet, Piggy,” Feminism and Religion, October 2026.
“American Pie,” Feminism and Religion, October 2026.
forthcoming, “winter evening,” Snapshot Haiku Calendar Competition, runner-up, publication 2026.
"bedknobs and bedtime," Contemporary Haibun Online, 22.1., April 2026, haiga.
"Appalachian Two-Step,” March 2026, As the Crow Flies (Appalachian Journal), haibun.
"ninth inning," MacQueen’s Quinterly, January 2026, haiga.
“Haiga: The Art of Haiku,” October 5-December 31, 2025, Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum, Coshocton, Ohio, 7 haiga chosen for exhibition.
"memories of kites," Contemporary Haibun Online, August 2025, haiga.
"wooden pew," Contemporary Haibun Online, August 2025, haiga.
“silver bells,” Wales Haiku Journal, Spring 2025, haiga.
“Portrait of a Young Artist,” MacQueen’s Quinterly, April 2025, haibun.
"Frostbite," MacQueen’s Quinterly, April 2025, haibun.
“Eden’s Memory,” MacQueen’s Quinterly, April 2025, haiga.
“storm clouds,” MacQueen’s Quinterly, April 2025, haiga.
“cotton candy,” MacQueen’s Quinterly, April 2025, haiga.
"school days," MacQueen’s Quinterly, April 2025, haiga, Arthur Rothstein photographer.
“Ashes to Ashes,” Contemporary Haibun, December 2024, haibun.
“sundown,”Contemporary Haibun, August 2023, haiga, Marion Post Wolcott photographer.
“spring,”Contemporary Haibun, August 2023, haiga, Jack Delano photographer.
“autumn winds,” chosen for inclusion by the North Carolina Haiku Society for the Pittsboro Gallery of Arts’ exhibit “Tandem: Art and Poetry in Motion,” June 2023, haiku.
“new year,” chosen as a featured artwork in the Sonic Boom VISPO contest, July 2023, haiga.
“final bell,”Contemporary Haibun Online, December 2022, haiga.
“nightfall,”Contemporary Haibun Online, December 2022, haiga.
“Stripped,” Modern Haiku, Summer 2022 (chosen for publication in Contemporary Haibun 18, best of series for 2022), haibun.
“flying,” Contemporary Haibun Online, August 2022 (chosen for publication in Contemporary Haibun 18, best of series for 2022), haiga.
“depression,”Contemporary Haibun Online, August 2022, haiga.
“chimera,” Cafe Haiku, 2022, Dream issue, haiga .
“Godspeed,” Sonic Boom, December 2021 (chosen for publication in Contemporary Haibun 17, best of series for 2021), haibun.
“auld lang syne,” failed haiku, January 2022, haiga.
“pier,” Frogpond, Winter 2021, haiku.
“northern winds,” Presence, 71, November 2021, haiku.
“November sun,” Wales Haiku Journal, Winter 2021-2022, haiga.
“Celestial Empire,” the museum of americana, Issue 23, found poem.
“Evening Primrose,” Under the Basho, July 28, 2020, with Janine Lehane.
“after the storm,” Wales Haiku Journal, Summer 2020, haiku.
[Note: Contemporary Haibun and Red Moon Press publish an annual anthology of haibun and haiga. As they describe the selection process: “Editors of the world’s leading journals were invited to submit the best of these forms that they had published in the past year.” My haibun “Godspeed” was chosen for the 2021 anthology and my haibun “Stripped” and haiga “flying” were chosen for the 2022 anthology.]
Books and Chapbooks
Requiem for Lewis (forthcoming, Snapshot Press), co-winner of the Snapshot Press eChapbook Award 2026.
Main Street, Yavanika Press, 2025.
The Story of the Philadelphia Eleven, 2nd edition, 2024, Church Publishing, NY.
Raised in the World of Everyday Poets , Yavanika Press, 2022.
I Followed Close Behind Her, 2003, Spinsters Ink, Denver.
Sites of Southern Memory: The Autobiographies of Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin, Lillian Smith, and Pauli Murray, 2001, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville.
Photographs
September 2025, twelve photographs exhibited in “Through the Eye: The Year of Helene,” Blue Spirit Art Studio and Gallery, Spartanburg, SC
September 2025, “On the French Broad River,” in “Shadows and Silhouettes,” Art on 1st, Roanoke, VA
“Lagoon,” San Antonio Review, Winter 2024
“Appalachian Solstice,” San Antonio Review, Winter 2024
“Three Sisters,” San Antonio Review, Winter 2024
“Tea Cup: Appalachian Fair,” Meat for Tea, Volume 18, Issue 4
Photographer for essays listed above (“A Solemn Christmas in Asheville,” “Carter Heyward’s New Book Calls Out Sins of Christian Nationalism,” “Philadelphia 11 Reunion Recalls Ministry of Pioneering Women Priests”).
Guest Editor
The Haiku Foundation’s Daily Haiku, September 2026, “School Days.”
Lectures, Talks, and Interviews
National Center for Courageous Women of Faith, “The Philadelphia Eleven,” Philadelphia, PA, October 2026.
Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual (WATER), Panel Discussion on the Philadelphia 11, online, 2024.
Union County Community Remembrance Project, "Remembering Jail Hill," online, 2021.
Upcountry Literary Festival, USC-U, Union, SC, “The Crossroads," online, 2020.
Unitarian Universalist of Transylvania County, Brevard, NC, “Thoughts on Mother Emanuel and John C. Calhoun,” 2019.
Land of Sky United Church of Christ, Asheville, NC, “Confederate Memorials and Mother Emanuel.”
Wake Forest University School of Divinity, Winston-Salem, NC, "The Philadelphia Eleven," 2018.
Faith to Faith, WWDB Radio, Philadelphia, PA, “The Philadelphia Eleven: The First 11 Women Ordained as Episcopal Priests,” 2018.
St. Stephen and the Incarnation Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C., Panel moderator of the Washington Four, 2015.
St. Martin’s Episcopal Church, Charlotte, NC, Panel participant on the topic of the Philadelphia Eleven, 2015.
Presbyterian College, Clinton, SC, Panel participant on the topic of the Philadelphia Eleven, 2015.
WSQL Radio, Brevard, NC, Hour-long interview on the topic of the Philadelphia Eleven, 2015.
Malaprop’s Bookstore, Asheville, NC, Panel Participant on the topic of the Philadelphia Eleven, 2015.
Symposium and Celebration of the 40th Anniversary of Women’s Ordination in the Episcopal Church, the Episcopal Diocese of East Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, Panel Participant on the topic of the Philadelphia Eleven, 2015.
National Public Radio, Interfaith Voices, Washington, D.C., 2014.
Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual (WATER), “Messages from 1974: The Story of the Philadelphia 11,” Silver Spring, Maryland, 2014.
St. Stephen and the Incarnation Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C., "The Washington Four and the Philadelphia Eleven,” 2014.
Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Blacksburg, VA, “The Washington Four and the Philadelphia Eleven,” 2014.
Highland Books, Brevard, NC, Panel discussion on The Story of the Philadelphia Eleven, 2014.
Brevard College, Institute for Women in Leadership, Brevard, NC, “The Relevance of the Philadelphia Eleven,” 2014.
St. Philip’s Episcopal Church, The Story of the Philadelphia Eleven, Brevard, NC, 2014.
College Walk, Brevard, NC, The Story of the Philadelphia Eleven, 2014.
Conference on Sites of Memory in Vienna and the American South, The College of William and Mary, “Sites of Southern Memory,” 2002.
Southern Women Writers Conference, Berry College, Mount Berry, GA, “Sites of Southern Memory,” 2000.
Alumni Association, The College of William and Mary, “Southern Autobiography and Regional Memory," 1993.
Northeastern Modern Languages Association Conference, Toronto, Canada, “Flannery O'Connor and ‘The River,’” 1988.
Anderson County Lupus Foundation, Anderson, SC, Flannery O'Connor and Lupus,” 1988.
