Publications

Books

The Practice of Enchantment: MythBlast Essays, 2020-2024. Joseph Campbell Foundation, 2024.

Goddesses: A Skeleton Key Study Guide. With Olivia Happel-Block, PhD; Rachel Lugn, PhD; and Stephanie Zajchowski, PhD. Joseph Campbell Foundation, 2023.

Nonfiction

I Left the Mormon Church. I Feel for Former Trump Supporters, The Santa Barbara Independent, Sep 27, 2024.

Summer of the Goddess, The Santa Barbara Independent, Aug 9, 2024.

To Radiate and Create, Joseph Campbell Foundation MythBlast series, Jun 23, 2024.

Entering the Mythscape of Pan’s Labyrinth, Joseph Campbell Foundation MythBlast series, Mar 17, 2024.

The Hero-Heart in the Classroom, Joseph Campbell Foundation MythBlast series, Jan 7, 2024.

Returning to the World, Joseph Campbell Foundation MythBlast series, Dec 17, 2023.

What the Chariot Carries, Joseph Campbell Foundation MythBlast series, Jul 16, 2023.

As Beatrice to Dante, Joseph Campbell Foundation MythBlast series, Jun 11, 2023.

Skywoman’s Sacred Creative Power, Joseph Campbell Foundation MythBlast series, August 21, 2022.

Releasing the Dreamings, Joseph Campbell Foundation MythBlast series, July 3, 2022.

In the Company of Coyote, Joseph Campbell Foundation MythBlast series, June 26, 2022.

The Antlered Child: Changing Shapes, Changing Souls, Joseph Campbell Foundation MythBlast series, October 17, 2021.

To the Female God of the Labyrinth, Joseph Campbell Foundation MythBlast series, August 29, 2021.

Every Bloom a Blessing, Joseph Campbell Foundation MythBlast series, April 4, 2021.

The Hour Yields, Joseph Campbell Foundation MythBlast series, November 29, 2020.

Dreaming the Lotus, Joseph Campbell Foundation MythBlast series, August 2, 2020.

Creation and Creativity, In: Leeming D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2019

Creation Myth and Creativity: A Multi-Disciplinary Study of Cosmogonic Narrative, ProQuest, 2019

Baptism for the Dead, Luna Review, March 2, 2016

Love Letter to Blue, Kosmos, May 5, 2015

Where More Is Meant: Alchemical Imagery in Milton’s ‘Il Penseroso,’ The Ritman Library Blog, March 4, 2015

BYU and Berkeley: A Survivor’s Tale, Sunstone, October 2003, Issue 129

Hail Mary, Moondance, 2003

Fiction

The Deer in the Headlights, Between, Volume 17, 2014

Windows in the Deep Woods, Halfway Down the Stairs, September 2010

Clarity’s Companions, Drops of Crimson, Vol 1 Issue 6, June 2009

Salamandra and the Parking Meter, Halfway Down the Stairs, March 2009

The Running of the Duckies, Expanded Horizons, Issue 4, January 2009

After Vespers, Fickle Muses, August 2008

Where the Stream Comes From, Serendipity, Issue 6, February 2008

The Cave of the Winds, Reflection’s Edge, Issue 31, December 2007

The Rope, Reflection’s Edge, Issue 21, December 2006

Lirette and Riselle, The Rose and Thorn, Summer 2006

Tia Trementina, Rosebud, Issue 35, April 2006, finalist in the Mary Shelley Contest for Imaginative Fiction

Poetry

Summoning the Luscious, The Cafe Luna Review, August 20, 2015

Images Are Things Imagined, Goblin Fruit, Summer 2010

Witchery, Goblin Fruit, Autumn 2009

The Geode Slice, Something Dipped a Claw in Ink, The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Fall 2008, Vol XVIII, No. 3

From the Vantage of the Patio, The Shadows of Doubt, Terrain.org, Issue No. 22, Summer/Fall 2008

Fire Angel Baby, Roads Home, The Human Animal, The Ghazal Page, January 2008

The Matter of the Marrow, Indra’s Neural Net, A Questionable Reputation, Family Heirloom, Rogue Poetry Review Issue No. 3

Winged Women, Coyote Wild, Summer 2007, Volume 1, Issue 3

To the Green of the Jungle Snake, My Cosmic Valentine, Flutter, May 2007, Volume 2, Issue 5

Seven Miles in Frijoles Canyon, A Steep-Sided, Flat-Topped Elevation, RiverSedge, Spring 2007, Volume XX, No. 1

Lizard Women, South Dakota Review, Fall 2005, Volume 43, Number 3

For Frances, On Beginning Chemo, Sunstone, September 2005, Issue 138