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Essays & Articles

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"Person to Person"
Empty Mirror
January 31, 2020

"Know Your Cans"
Journal of Compressed Creative Arts
June 10, 2019
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"Heirloom Fruit, Vintage Books"
Fine Books & Collections
Summer 2017

"Eating Archaeology: The Story of the DAP Cookbook"
Edible Southwest Colorado, Spring 2017

"The Big Picture: Graham Documents People and Places Through Wet-Plate Photography"
Four Corners Free Press, April 2017

"Mancos Artisan Turns Plastic Bags into Gems"
Colorado Life, March/April 2017

"Life among the Ruins: Kelly Place Bed and Breakfast, Cortez"
(Part of cover story on Colorado's most unusual B&Bs)
Colorado Life, March/April 2017

"Cortez, Colorado"
The Place Where You Live,
​Orion online, October 10, 2016

An old, favorite piece about lichens is included in Field Notes (Montana Natural History Center, 2016).
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"Glosses on Dirt" 
Dirt: A Love Story (University Press of New England, 2015)

"Glosses on Dirt"
High Desert Journal 21, Fall 2015

“Icelandic Imagery”
Fine Books & Collections, Summer 2015

“Prehistoric Past, Technological Future: Erica Olsen / Frank Waters” 
Episode 84, Reflections West, Montana Public Radio, Fall 2013

"Where I Write" 
The Next Best Book Blog, Feb 20, 2013

"Bookshelf for a Work-in-Progress"
1Bookshelf, Feb 1, 2013

"A Multiracial, Multiethnic Future"
Salt Lake Tribune, Dec 28, 2012

"Grandmother's Choice: How a Norwegian cheese became a symbol of rebellion" 
Culture, Spring 2012

“South Pole Centennial” 
Fine Books & Collections, Fall 2011

"Museums Matter"
Salt Lake Tribune, Aug 4, 2011

"Ibsen, Hamsun, and a Tiny Smoked Fish"
A literary tour of Norway
Fine Books & Collections, Winter 2010

"Footloose and Singlewide: When I live in a trailer, there's no place like home"
Stanford Magazine, July/Aug 2009

"Trail Guide"
What Wildness Is This: Women Write About the Southwest (University of Texas Press, 2007)

Reviews

Review of Of Darkness, by Josefine Klougart
Necessary Fiction, January 2018

My recommendations in
Recommended Reading 2016
Necessary Fiction, December 2016

​Review of Beastlife, by J'Lyn Chapman
Necessary Fiction, Dec 5, 2016

My recommendations in
Recommended Reading 2015
Necessary Fiction, December 22, 2015

Review of Steelies and Other Endangered Species, by Rebecca Lawton
Necessary Fiction, Nov 9, 2015

Review of Theories of Forgetting, by Lance Olsen
Necessary Fiction, Aug 17, 2015

Review of Mountainfit, by Meera Lee Sethi
Necessary Fiction, Aug 18, 2014

"Matters of Life and Death"
Review of Contents May Have Shifted, by Pam Houston
High Country News, May 14, 2012

"A Western Mystery with an Environmental Twist"
Review of Buried by the Roan, by Mark Stevens
High Country News, Aug 8, 2011

"Chronicling a Lost River"
Review of Dry River, by Ken Lamberton
High Country News, Jun 13, 2011

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