Essays
“Like a Prayer— of peep stones and pioneer children.” Flash essay. Utah@125, edited by Ellen Weist.
“For Jess, after Eighteen Years of Marriage: Seven Fragments on Love; Or, Some Things I Carry—.” Lyric essay. Revising Eternity: 27 Latter-day Saint Men Reflect on Modern Relationships, edited by Holly Welker (University of Illinois Press, May 2022).
“A Poetics of Breathing: A Sonosophic Essay on Alex Caldiero’s Sonosophy.” Multi-genre essay. Baggage: Alex Caldiero in Retrospect, edited by Laura Allred Hurtado (Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 2021), pp. 164–176.
“Like a Prayer—” Lyric essay. Psaltery & Lyre, 15 March 2021.
“Flesh, Language, Sacrament: Three Meditations on the Communal Meal.” Personal essay. Sunstone Magazine, no. 187, 2018, pp. 20–25. (First Place, 2017 Eugene England Memorial Personal Essay Contest.)
“‘An Open Palm and a Consecrated Life’: Three Meditations on Being-with Others.” Personal essay. Sunstone Magazine, no. 182, 2016, pp. 42–47. (Third Place, 2016 Eugene England Memorial Personal Essay Contest.)
“Rua: An Elegy in Holes.” Flash essay. Likewise Folio, no. 12, August 2013.
“Siren.” Flash essay (published as poem). Black Rock & Sage, no. 8, 2009, p. 74.
Review Essays
“The Textures of Entanglement in Melody Newey Johnson’s An Imperfect Roundness: An Invocation.” Review essay on Melody Newey Johnson, An Imperfect Roundness (BCC Press, 2020). Association for Mormon Letters (Online). November 2020.
“The Call to Empathy in Elizabeth Garcia’s Stunt Double: A Seminar in Three Bodies.” Review essay on Elizabeth Garcia, Stunt Double (Finishing Line Press, 2016). Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought (Online). March 2019.
“Notes toward a Mormon Theology of the Word: A Working Response to Jack Harrell’s Writing Ourselves.” Review essay on Jack Harrell, Writing Ourselves: Essays on Creativity, Craft, and Mormonism (Greg Kofford Books, 2016). Association for Mormon Letters (Online). August 2016.
“On Poets and Poetry: Salt to the World.” Review essay on Susan Elizabeth Howe’s Salt (Signature Books, 2013) and Lance Larsen’s Genius Loci (University of Tampa Press, 2013). BYU Studies Quarterly, vol. 55, no.2, 2016, pp. 195–202.
“Giving the Beauty of Holiness a Tongue.” Review essay on Doug Talley’s Adam’s Dream: Poems for a Latter Day (Parables, 2011). Association for Mormon Letters (Online). April 2012.
“Why Twilight is Good for You.” Personal essay. Sunstone Magazine, no. 157, 2009, pp. 46–50.
“Reading the Mormon Gothic.” Review essay on Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series (Little, Brown, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008). Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, vol. 42, no.2, 2009, pp. 137–140.