Fiction
“Insufficient Memory,” Vera Hinckley Mayhew Student Creative Arts Contests, first place in short story (specialty), 2024 – a refurbished robot working as a nanny has an existential crisis
“Birthright,” in Tales of Mystery: Dead for a Spell, Inklings Press, 2024 – a detective reluctantly accepts a case involving a missing magical inheritance
“Reclaiming the Desert,” Wayfare Magazine, 2023 – a solar punk story about a future Utah and two sisters divided (Author’s Note)
“The 37th Ward Relief Society Leftovers Exchange,” Audience Choice Award and Judge’s Choice Award winner in the Mormon Lit Blitz 2021 “Saints, Spells, and Spaceships” contest – a magical realism story about a different kind of potluck (Author’s Note)
“Winter Fog,” Irreantum 17.1, 2020 – a Christmas ghost story about a mother and daughter in the foggy Pacific Northwest
Creative Nonfiction
“Through the Wardrobe: Inhabiting the Divine Story,” Wayfare Magazine, issue 3 – on stories and symbolism in CS Lewis’s Narnia and LDS temples
“Growing Up L’Engle,” second place in the Elsie C. Carroll Informal Essay Contest, 2024 – on reading A Wrinkle in Time at different points in my childhood
“Knit Together,” BYU Studies 62.3, 2023; second place in the 2023 BYU Studies Essay Contest – on the doctrine of being knit together and knitting with my sister; also available via podcast
“The Cost,” Judge’s Choice Award winner in the 12th Annual Mormon Lit Blitz 2023 – a hybrid essay and scriptural fiction piece on the sacred costs of motherhood
“Turning the Corner,” Exponent II, vol 43.2, Fall 2023 – on being sick at Christmas and entering a different stage of motherhood. Hear an excerpt in the issue launch party (timestamp 34:45).
“Self Portrait in Cookies,” Young Ravens Literary Review, issue 17, Winter 2022 – on baking, family, and Mormon womanhood (Author’s Note)
“Buyers, Renters, and Belonging,” Irreantum 18.2, 2021 – on community in church playgroups and the struggles of young families living in an expensive area (Author’s Note)
“Blueberry Bushes and the Bare Essentials of Being,” Irreantum 16.1, 2018 – on returning to writing after ten years as a stay-at-home parent
“On Loss,” Segullah, 2008; first place in the 2008 Heather Campbell Personal Essay Contest – on my grandfather’s death during my study abroad in England;
“Seeking Holy Things,” The Restored Gospel and Applied Christianity, Center for the Study of Christian Values in Literature and the Religious Studies Center, 2008; third place in the 2008 David O. McKay Essay Contest – on pilgrimage in England and Mormonism
Editing
Co-editor with Katherine Cowley, Holiday Lit Blitz, 2024 – a contest for flash pieces that deal with holidays through an LDS lens
Co-editor with William Morris, Genre issue of Irreantum, vol 20, no 3, Fall 2023 – a literary magazine collecting stories, poems, and literary criticism involving Mormonism and the tropes of genre fiction