about
I live in Spokane, Washington and teach creative writing, visual rhetoric, editing, and book design classes at Whitworth University.
I also serve as editor-in-chief of Rock & Sling, a literary journal, and I'm the publisher of Sage Hill Press. From 2013-2015, I served as Spokane's first Poet Laureate. An interest in typography and book design led by various means to helping found Millwood Print Works, a letterpress print shop with a mission to educate others in the use of letterpress printers. In 2018-2019 Millwood moved to a new home and reopened as the Spokane Print & Publishing Center, and expanded into fine art printmaking (relief, intaglio, etching), book binding, and digital design.
Things I value:
Community
Good design
Typography
A dearth of adverbs
Good food
Salt
Vinyl
Banjos, mandolins, fiddles
Spokane
Passionate artists
Hippies
Bacon
Jesus
Chickens
Gardens
Mountains
Elk
Rivers
Rail-travel