Author of North of Hope, A Daughter's Arctic Journey (2013, Zondervan/Harper Collins), a memoir of adventure, tragedy, family and faith, and the short essay collection The Way the Wild Gets Inside: Field Notes from Alaska.

Alumni blogger at www.patheos.com/blogs/goodletters/

Founder of The Grit Project, focusing on women and leadership, and Writer-in-residence at Methow Arts working with children of all ages in Okanagan County schools to develop the literary arts; writing considering the intersection of heart and place, the natural world, the military, women's and family issues, and faith.

Memoir North of Hope (Zondervan/Harper Collins 2013): http://www.goo.gl/6RlCH

Some/One was included in the Fall 2015 issue of River Teeth Journal; Honorable mention in the 2015 VanderMey Nonfiction contest; Naked: A Triptych is out in Ruminate Journal this summer. Other work appears in Huffington Post, High Country News, Alaska and Seattle Magazines, Cirque Journal, Trachodon, Adventum Magazine, among others.

Anthologized in More than 85 Broads, McGraw Hill, 2006, and Dream of Things Travel Anthology, 2012

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