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I am the author of two prose books: a work of literary criticism, Queering Mennonite Literature: Archives, Activism, and the Search for Community (Penn State University Press, 2019), and a hybrid memoir/literary critical text, Ethics for Apocalyptic Times: Theapoetics, Autotheory, and Mennonite Literature (Penn State University Press, 2024).

I am also a devotee of poetry because, as William Carlos Williams writes, “It is difficult / to get the news from poems / yet [people] die miserably every day / for lack / of what is found there.” I am the author of two poetry collections: a good possible year for an apocalypse: poems (Red Moon Press, 2025), and, with James Knippen, It Breaks Your Heart: Haiku and Senryu on the 2023 New York Mets (Redheaded Press, 2024). The Selected Publications page includes links to some of my poems alongside some of my prose. Among other awards, my poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize twice. I have been one of Frogpond‘s haiku/senryu co-editors since 2025.

As part of my interest in archiving, I maintain the three Mennonite/s Writing bibliographies that Ervin Beck first compiled in the 1990s.

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