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Nonfiction Samples

Custer's Ideological Fantasy

TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses (2007)

A comparative literature article that applies Slavoj Zizek’s psychoanalytic theory to William Heyen’s poetry collection Crazy Horse in Stillness and uses the fruits of this comparison to illuminate the treatment of sentimentality in contemporary creative writing pedagogy.

No Cover in Tucson

Cirque: A Literary Journal for the North Pacific Rim (2013)

A visit to Tucson from the perspective of a love-starved Alaskan. Originally recorded for Broad Perspectives Radio on KXCI 91.3 FM by Quynn Elizabeth in 2007.