Dear America, An old and perhaps unanswerable question has troubled me since my childhood. Now it won’t let me rest. The Revolutionary War had entered its final years, still undecided, when J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur asked, What then is the American, this new man? Most...
It's hard for me to believe that I'm included with 34 amazing scholars-writers like Jared Farmer, Gregg Mitman, Monica Martinez, and so many more. I'm still pinching myself! ...
TRACE Wins Creative Writing Book Award from ASLE: Association for the Study of Literature and Environment If anyone has mastered the art of being in two places at the same time, please let me know! ASLE just honored me by giving TRACE its biennial Creative Writing...
Beyond Granite: Pulling Together presents a dynamic new series of installations designed to create a more inclusive, equitable, and representative commemorative landscape on the National Mall. The Beyond Granite initiative is led by the Trust for the National Mall in partnership with the National Capital...
THE LAST BREATH before dawn. A moment of undefined edges slipping between dark and light, when it seems one might step through time and space merged. From the crest of Virginia’s Blue Ridge I look over what, at the close of night, appears to be a...
Dear Friends, Hot off the press! Counterpoint Press is just now releasing another edition of Trace with a new preface from me. I'm deeply grateful that Trace takes a second breath with this new edition! ...
Trace is featured in Rachel King's article "10 books on American history that actually reflect the United States" from July 4 in Fortune Magazine "It's often remarked that history is written by the winners. It's also an unmistakable fact that most history lessons taught in schools...
From Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy Published April 2020, Trinity University Press To my country: An old and perhaps unanswerable question has troubled me since childhood. Now it won’t let me rest. The Revolutionary War had entered its final years, still undecided, when J....
Welcome to the Exploratorium, San Francisco’s museum of science, art, and the human experience. Self, Made: Exploring You in a World of We was a summer-long exhibition inviting “visitors to explore how we form and perform identity through dozens of new interactive exhibit experiences, works of...
The journeys that once-living organisms embark on toward the fossil record, few rarely complete. Decay or disintegration destroys more remains than not. And rocks exposed at Earth’s surface don’t chronicle all of the planet’s past. Tectonic upheavals, such as the forces that made the Rocky...