News Highlights
September 2025
Well, I did it - I tabled at The Small Press Expo! Snow Emergency Route - an adoptee graphic memoir made its debut there in a very limited artist-produced edition. It was like shoving a baby bird out of the nest. I felt a lot of comradery with all of the publishers and independent creators there, and I'm very grateful for the many meaningful connections I made.
Edit April 2026: The Minnesota Historical Society Press will be publishing Snow Emergency Route - an adoptee graphic memoir in the fall of 2027! Stay tuned!
March 2025
Happy to announce that I'm having a drawing featured in the Spring 2025 issue of The Nemadji Review! Due to publish in May, the theme is “The Human Experience: Love, Longing, and Loss.” The Nemadji Review is a student-run literary magazine at the University of Wisconsin-Superior. This literary journal is a celebration of contributors. Otherwise, I've been busy making mini comics and just published the 2nd edition of Whatever you wish to keep!
May 2024
On May 13th I joined Christi Furnas at Magers & Quinn Booksellers in Uptown Minneapolis. We talked about her autobiographically-inspired graphic novel Crazy Like a Fox. I was honored to be a part of her book launch! Such a cool book - check it out!
November 1, 2023
October found me traveling to 20 libraries in northern Minnesota talking about graphic memoir!
I created a "Take and Make" too. Download here: Young Adult version Adult version
October 18, 2023
New interview on Boreal.org! I refrained from gushing about how much I love Grand Marais <3
January - February 2023
I've been awarded a MN State Arts Board grant to work on my next book! Thankful & excited! Also psyched that I have a 2-page nonfiction comic in the "Color" issue of The Nib! Find out why hair color changes!
June 2022
I've been interviewed on the Sequential Artists Workshop Blog! The June SAW Student Interview features yours truly and includes a work in progress: one of my "Gruesome Tales" vignettes that are scattered throughout Snow Emergency Route. I talk about the practice and influences, and encourage fellow adoptees to tell their story.
March 2022
The Sequential Artists Workshop has a new anthology out and I'm in it with a host of fine colleagues! ECHO: A SAW DIARY COMICS ANTHOLOGY (update: this has sold out)
October 8, 2021
The Sequential Artists Workshop has just published 2 anthologies that I'm happy to say include my work! The first is a 2-pager about my elderly father's bout with Covid-19 in Socially Distant - SAW Pandemic Comics Anthology (update: this has sold out). The other is an 8-page excerpt from chapter one of my graphic memoir in The Rainbow Bridge - A SAW Anthology. Order Here
September 16, 2021
Honored and grateful to be a recipient of an INDIVIDUAL ARTIST PROJECT GRANT from the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council! This provides support for the completion of my current graphic memoir in-progress.
August 13, 2021
I'm thrilled to have been chosen as a finalist for Solstice Magazine's first annual Graphic Lit prize! Very cool to be published by a magazine that gives space to a diverse array of voices. Thank you, Solstice! Edit: This is an early version of the prologue that will not be present in the finished work. Prologue from The Sheridan Memoirs
May 3, 2021
My new mini comic Shambala is featured in the Sequential Artists Workshop blog! Thank you, SAW! Get your signed and numbered home-baked first edition here.
