May 21, 2026
Embodying Rurality in Nonrural Places

Check out my guest blog post at "Literacy in Place," a website about rural literacy and literature for youth.

Here are the first two paragraphs to get you started:

"I live in Chicago. I’ve lived there for over forty years.
I live among high rises and along crowded streets. I navigate parking restrictions and rush hour commutes. I wake to sirens in the middle of the night and wait seemingly forever for the next bus. And within a fifty-yard radius of my home there are two to three times more people than were in the small town in which I grew up."


Get ready for Kid America: A Novel of Inheritance and Survival, coming November 3 from Mission Point Press