Nopalito, Texas: Stories (University of New Mexico Press) is available here ⇒.
Caliche Road Poems (Lamar University University Press) is available here ⇒
My personal essay, “I Am, I Said,” published by The Common, Issue 27, is listed as a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2025.
My debut poetry collection -- from 3: A Taos Press -- winner of the John A. Robertson Award for Best First Book of Poetry, Texas Institute of Letters, 2020.
Co-hosting the Albuquerque release of Weaving the Terrain: 100-Word Southwestern Poems (01/26/18)
Pursue your dreams.
Thanks to Mark Drew at the Gettysburg Review for nominating "How to Shoot at Someone Who Outdrew You." Thanks to the Pushcart editors for selecting it!
In the Sandias (September 2015).
The entire issue is mine. The Distance Between Here and Elsewhere: Three Stories.
At the Blue Bell Creamery, Brenham, TX, 2011. The buzz cut.
THIS is the landscape of Caliche Road Poems.
Debra Monroe was my professor and thesis advisor for the MFA. Nopalito, Texas: Stories owes much to her.
That's Patrice McKinney in the middle, with her husband Pete at left and my husband Scott at right. I'm seated, center. Nopalito, Texas: Stories is dedicated to Patrice.
On my brother Larell's farm outside Orange Grove, Texas. Judith Meischen Hoelscher, David Meischen, Larell Meischen, Vance Meischen -- a sister and four brothers (left to right). The cover photo for Caliche Road Poems was taken here.