Books:

Interior Places. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, March 2008, 289 pages. “A curiously detailed group photograph of the Midwest’s interior landscape.” (from UNP’s catalogue copy.)

The Nature of Home. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, September 2002, 231 pages. A collection of essays and lexicon entries that explore the concept of “home” in both a human and an ecological sense.

Flight Dreams: A Life in the Midwestern Landscape. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, November 1998, 286 pages. A collection of autobiographical essays.

Field of Vision. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, May 1996, 139 pages. A collection of nature essays that explore the act of seeing.


Essays in Literary Quarterlies:

"What the River Carries." Prairie Schooner. Forthcoming.

“Restorations.” North Dakota Review. Forthcoming.

 “No Other River.” Iowa Review. 39:2 (Fall 2009).

“Fleet.” The Gettysburg Review 20:4 (Winter 2007-2008). 

“Nine-mile Prairie.” Michigan Quarterly Review 46:3 (Summer 2007). 

“Visiting Frederic.” Ascent 30:2 (February 2007).

“Tending.” Sling and Arrow 2:1 (Spring 2005).

“In the Corn.” ISLE (Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment) 12.1 (Winter 2005).

“This Creek.” Cimarron Review 143 (Summer 2003).

“Thirty Shades of White.” Flint Hills Review 7 (2002).

“Mammoth Bones.” ISLE (Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment) 9.1 (Winter 2002).

“Household Words.” Michigan Quarterly Review 40.4 (Fall 2001).

“A Salt Marsh Reclamation.” Southern Indiana Review 8.1 (2001).

“My Place of Many Times.” Connecticut Review 22 (Fall 2000).

“In the Air.” Shenandoah 49 (Fall 1999): 5-13.

“Flight Dreams.” Crazy Horse 55 (Winter 1998): 136-45.

“The Beat, 1979.” Dominion Review 14 (1996).

“Hard Remains.” The Journal 20 (Spring/Summer 1996).

“Last Rites.” Lowell Review 2 (1996).

“Sky Watch.” Farmer’s Market 13 (Fall/Winter 1995).

“Excavations.” Creative Nonfiction 4 (Fall 1995).

“Sheet Music.” Tamaqua 5 (Fall 1995).

“Summer Reading.” Missouri Review 16 (Fall 1993).

“Just Words.” Cream City Review 17 (Fall 1993).

“Edges.” Farmer’s Market 10 (Fall/Winter 1993-1994).

“Seeing ‘Possum.” Cimarron Review 100 (July 1992).

“Field of Vision.” South Dakota Review 28 (Autumn 1990).

“Pheasant Country.” Northwest Review 28 (Summer 1990). 


Recent Essays in Other Publications:

“Perhapsing.” Write Now! Non-fiction, edited by Sherry Ellis. Forthcoming:  Tracher/Penguin, May 2010.

“Nauvoo: The Beautiful Place.” Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississippi River Valley. Forthcoming.

“Perhapsing: The Art of Speculation in Creative Nonfiction.” Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction. 29 (January 2009).



Anthologized Essays:

“Far Brought,” in The Big Empty: Contemporary Nebraska Nonfiction Writers. Edited by Ladette Randolph and Nina Shevchuk-Murray. University of Nebraska Press, 2007.

 “A Salt Marsh Reclamation” and “Writing ‘A Salt Marsh Reclamation,’” in Landscape with Figures: The Nonfiction of Place. Edited by Robert Root. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007.

“Traces,” in River East, Eiver West: Iowa’s Natural Borders. West Liberty, Iowa: Ice Cube Press. October 2006 (through Humanities Iowa Voices form the Prairie).

“Houseguest,” in Sisters of the Earth: Women’s Prose and Poetry About Nature. Edited by Lorraine Anderson. New York: Vintage, 2003. 

“Creative,” from The Nature of Home in The Chronicle Review. September 27, 2002.

“Excavations,” in The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers on Creative Nonfiction. Edited by Michael Steinberg and Robert Root. New York: Simon and Schuster/Allyn Bacon.

“Excavations,” in The Essayist at Work. Edited by Lee Gutkind. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1998.