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Offered by Linda Wastila, proprietor of ROOT RISE BE, a woman who tends words along with chickens, plants, novels, and the people in her life. You can read my stories and poems in places like Fractured Lit (2025 Anthology Prize) The Missouri Review (2021 Perkins Award winner for fiction) The Penn Review, Citron Review, Smokelong Quarterly, Monkeybicycle, Blue Fifth Review, and Nanoism, among other. I received my MA in Writing from John Hopkins in 2015.
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