Works
Crevice: A Life Between Worlds
Crevice is a collection of 13 related essays, the winner of the 2024 Kenneth Johnston Nonfiction Book Award and published by Choeofpleirn Press. Through stories and reflection, the book explores bicultural belonging and identity, the role of language in identity, and the effects of colonization. It examines the author's settler heritage as the daughter of evangelical missionaries in the Navajo Nation––from an early age and continuing through her later work in Diné bilingual-bicultural education as an adult. Available everywhere books are sold.
To Drink from the Silver Cup: From Faith Through Exile and Beyond
In and Out
A Good Stranger
Naturalization
An essay about how an interracial relationship lived on in my teaching writing to my African American students. An exploration of cross-cultural identity. In Clockhouse Review, Summer 2013. Listed as Notable in The Best American Essays 2014.
The First Avocado
Award winning montage about mortality through the experience of first tastes. Published in Mount Hope, Fall 2013.