Writing

I write primarily young adult fiction with fantastical elements. My current WIP is an alternate history set in 19th century England and Hungary, featuring a young woman who finds herself on the fringes of her magic-based society and winds up embroiled in the Hungarian revolution.

Find me online:
I write once a month (sometimes more) for Segullah.
I also write regularly for Thinking Through Our Fingers.


Writing Awards:

Adventures in YA Publishing (Pitch Plus Five), Grand Prize Winner, 2014
LDStorymakers, First Chapter contest, First place, YA Fantasy, 2014
L. Ron Hubbard, Writers of the Future, Honorable Mention, 2014
Rhetoric Society of America, Best Dissertation, 2009
First Place Vera Hinckley Mayhew Essay Contest, Brigham Young University, 2000
First Place Vera Hinckley Mayhew Specialty Short Story Contest, Brigham Young University, 2000
First Place, Inscape Personal Essay Contest, Brigham Young University, 1998



Editing:

 

(With Elise Hahl). Ed. Choosing Motherhood. Compiled by Lia Collings. Springville, UT: Cedar Fort, 2013.

 


Scholarly Writing:

“Finding Place to Speak: Sarah Winnemucca’s Rhetorical Practices in Disciplinary Spaces,” Legacy 31.1 (2014): 1-22.

 (With Aesha Adams and Elizabeth Rohan). “ ‘With the Tongue of [Wo]men and Angels’: Apostolic Rhetoric among Religious Women.” Renovating Rhetoric and the Christian Tradition. Eds. Elizabeth Vander Lei, Tom Amorose, Beth Daniell, and Anne Gere. Pittsburgh, PA: U of Pittsburg P, 2014

 

“That We Might Become ‘A Peculiar People’: Spatial Rhetoric as a Resource for Identification.” Rhetoric: Concord and Controversy. Ed. Antonio de Valasco and Melody Lehn. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, 2011. 265-74.

 

“Redeeming Love: Orual’s Redemption in Till We Have Faces.” Deep Thoughts: Proceedings of Life, the Universe, & Everything XVIII. (2010): 13-26.

 

(with Cheryl Glenn). “Rhetoric and Gender in Greco-Roman Theorizing.” SAGE Handbook on Gender and Communication. Eds. Bonnie J. Dow and Julia T. Wood. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 2006. 231-45.

 

“A Recipe for Remembrance: Memory and Identity in African-American Women’s Cookbooks.” Rhetoric Review 24.3 (2005): 280-297.