Essays

Essays

Essays

Fiction

Fiction
Screenwriting

Screenwriting

Screenwriting
  • Artist’s Statement

    As a girl, I lived as much as possible in trees, and I often wandered in an imaginary world, where characters spoke to me, and I could make magic. Later, as a woman, I discovered that both writing and the wild bring me toward truth. Through story-making and story-reading and story-witnessing, I am transformed. Especially those stories that can be witnessed in the wilderness, with our undomesticated selves.
  • I have dual identities – sixth generation Kentuckian raised in Canada; distiller’s daughter and teetotaler; literary writer and screenwriter; city-dweller and wild woman. In my work, I like to explore the dual nature of humanity, and the revelation and liberation that non-dual moments can bring. The sacred paradoxes in sex and food and death remain my favorite themes, for describing paradox is a way of “effing the ineffable,” as the Zen essayist Alan Watts has noted.