Recent work
Creative nonfiction – 'Kea Call' in Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature (2025). Read 'Kea Call' online.
'Kea Call' was part of my M.A. in Writing thesis at Johns Hopkins. To see the published essays from this project, some of which have been honored by awards, go to my Two Autumns page.
Scholarly article (peer reviewed) – 'Intersections in Early Irish and Japanese Nature Poetry: Seasons and Place Names' in Studia Celtica Fennica 20 (2025). Read this article online.
This article was part of my M.Phil. in Medieval Studies thesis at Trinity. I am working on revising a further article on reclusive narrators in Early Irish and Japanese nature poetry.
Scholarly article (non-peer reviewed) – 'Sarashina Nikki and the Travel Diary of Medieval Japan' in Atlas: Journal of the Dublin University Geographical Society 22 (2024). View Atlas online in PDF format.
Creative nonfiction – 'Bailey' in The Loch Raven Review 19 (2023)
Creative nonfiction – 'Inches' in Elsewhere: A Journal of Place (2022). Read 'Inches' online.
Creative nonfiction – 'Burrows in the Boneyard' in Humans and Nature Press Digital (2021). Read 'Burrows in the Boneyard' online. (This was one of my favorite writing projects!)
Creative nonfiction – 'Guiding Lights' in Soft Star Magazine 2 (2021)
Poetry
Rhyming – 'Glaurung On The Agony Of Fate' on the back cover of Amon Hen: Bulletin of the Tolkien Society 307 (2024)
Sonnets, waka, and more poetry in Dandelion Scribes
Read 'To Wissahickon Creek / After Dusk / The Voyager' in the online Nature issue (2024)
Read 'glass, kissed by moonlight' in the online Autumn issue (2024)
'The First Summer' in the Odes to the Dogs issue (2024)
'Blossoms in the Breeze' in the Screaming Cicadas issue (2025)
'Weeding' and 'Blue' in the Spirit issue (2025)
Read 'Purgatory Lingering' in the online Myths, Monsters, Messengers issue (2026)
Sonnet – 'To Scotts Lane and Beyond' in Hometown Poems: A South Fork Country Anthology of Poetry (2023)
Blank verse sonnet – 'Field Notes from Ridley Creek' in Last Leaves Magazine 6 (2023)
Free verse – 'Hedgehog' in Moss Puppy Magazine 3 (2022)
Other writing
Travel guides – From 2018 to 2022, I wrote travel guides and articles for Business Travel Life, Matador Network, Passion Passport, and Go Overseas. A selection of these is displayed on my Chill Subs profile. Go to Chill Subs.
Film review – 'Walter Mitty Film Review' in Not So Rotten (2018)
Book review – 'Book Review: Flying with the Rich and Famous' in Business Travel Life (2016)