Writing/Speaking

I offer consulting and editorial services for both aspiring and established writers. I am also a well-established, compelling public speaker and panelist. Please reach out if you’re interested in my expertise, I’m always happy to chat and help out if I can.

Here are a few of my publishing credentials:

Hunger and Motherhood in CENTRAL OREGON WRITERS GUILD 2023 LITERARY COLLECTION, November 2023

Even Cowgirls Grow Up in SECOND-CHANCE HORSES anthology from Revell Publishing, published October 2023

My daughter and I cheesing it up for my food column in the Bend Bulletin, 2016. I wrote a bi-weekly food and drink column for 2.5 years.

Chasing Life and Flannery O’Connor, The Other Journal, June 2023

In Vino Veritas, Barren Magazine, May 2023

To Sleep, Calla Press, April 2023

Women on Writing Creative Nonfiction Essay Contest Finalist, March 2023

Rest, Reckon Review, November 2022

In the Wilderness, in THE UNKNOWN AUTHORS ANTHOLOGY, October 2022

Excerpted essay quoted in LET THERE BE ART by Rachel Marie Kang, October 2022

The Nature of Motherhood, Fathom Magazine, June 2022

Beyond Horses, Oregon Humanities Beyond the Margins, February 2022

The Holiness of the Home Built on Hospitality, Fathom Magazine, September 2021

Heat Wave, Indelible Ink Writers, July 2021

Faith with Boots On, Fathom Magazine, February 2021

Without a Towel, Oregon Humanities Beyond the Margins, November 2020

This Name is My Promise to You, Fathom Magazine, September 2020

On the Lookout, Oregon Humanities, Spring 2020

Runner-Up, YeahWrite Flash Nonfiction Contest, March 2020

Semi-Finalist, Ruminate Magazine’s VanderMey Nonfiction Contest, December 2019

Nature Always Wins, Fathom Magazine, July 2019

Third Place, YeahWrite Flash Nonfiction Contest, February 2019

Water As a Weapon, RANGE Magazine, November 2018

Back to the Ranch, 1859 Oregon’s Magazine, August 2018

Cascade Awards Finalist, Memoir Category, Oregon Christian Writers Conference 2017

Bend Oktoberfest, OutdoorsNW Magazine, September 2016

Bi-weekly Food/Travel Writer, Bend Bulletin’s Special Projects, 2015-2019

First Place, Memoir Contest, Orange Country Christian Writers Conference, 2011

Managing Editor, Trochia Ministries, 2009-2016

Speaking

Storytelling at the PATH conference, 2022

Book my speaking services for your next event – I’m an engaging and passionate speaker on the topics of motherhood and marriage, writing and creativity, adoption, storytelling, local food/agriculture, horses and the human/horse connection.

I also enjoy sharing my stories and expertise on podcasts, IG live and other virtual interviews and events.

Other experience:

Central Oregon Community College, April 2024: How to Write, Publish and Market Your Children’s Book (Two-Day Intensive Workshop)

Central Oregon Writer’s Guild, February 2024: All About Writing Workshops

Deschutes County Library, July 2023: How to Write, Publish and Market Your Children’s Book

PATH International Region 9 conference, August 2022: Storytelling for Equine Therapeutic Centers and Professionals

Westside Church Women’s Tea, May 2019: Butter and Motherhood

Deschutes County Library Local Writers Panel, January 2019

Deschutes County Library Writers Event, November 2018: Storytelling in Poetry and Prose

Keynote Speaker at Camp Morrow Women’s Retreat, October 2016: Redemption through Adoptive Motherhood