Publications & Awards
2021 Green Earth Book Award Winner!
I am thrilled to announce that Bright Shining World won the 2021 Green Earth Book Award for Young Adult Fiction! Presented by the Nature Generation, this award recognizes books that inspire reader to “grow a deeper appreciation, respect, and responsibility for their natural environment.”
There will be an interview and ceremony later this year, check back for updates.
Mild Case
Check out this essay for the wonderful The Sun Magazine on surviving COVID.
Earlier Writings
I wrote about deafness and teaching at Gallaudet for Washingtonian Magazine, an article that won the Washington Society of Journalists essay of the year award.
My short story, Suddenly, the Apocalypse, won Glimmer Train’s short fiction story of the year award. You can read it in this collection.
The New York Times Magazine published a wonderful lives piece about deafness and acceptance.
Alsoin Washingtonian Magazine, articles about the Congressional Cemetery and another about hospice care.
In The Washington Post Magazine, a wild essay about learning to hear with cochlear implants…by watching American Idol.
Printer’s Devil Review has an old story, Sounds Like This (page 48 on the PDF).
If you’re really bored…a very old blog I kept for a while many years ago (the internet is forever)…
And finally if reading isn’t your thing — on the video front: a Moth story (that was selected for their best of collection), a graduation speech for the wonderful Clarke School, and an old TEDx talk in ASL about deafness and spirituality most notable for how poor my ASL is and my angry sign face.