THESE DARK SKIES
“This book is an incredible unflinching look at the great lie of our time: that there is an us and a them; that we in the empire are somehow innocent and uncontaminated by the blood and rage of the world; that we can in any way survive without upending that lie.”
—Sunil Yapa
Longlist, 2020 Graywolf Nonfiction Prize
Shortlist, 2020 Tarpaulin Sky Book Award
DETAILING TRAUMA
Best American Essays 2013 Notable Essay for “This Suturing of Wounds or Words.”
Featured in September/October 2012 Poets & Writers “Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin“
Gulf Coast awarded the 2011 Prize for Nonfiction to “This Suturing of Wounds or Words“
Review by Lindsay Drager in Tarpaulin Sky
Review by Christian Peet in Supplicum
Review by Dolly Laninga in Diagram
Review by Gloria Bonnell in Hayden’s Ferry
Medical Humanities Review, All Heart Matters
Review by Julie Lauterbach-Colby on Essay Daily
THE SURFACING OF EXCESS
Winner of the 2009 Blue Lynx Prize from Eastern Washington University
Review by Alexandra Mattraw in Word for/Word
Press release for The Surfacing of Excess from DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press