I’m not great with regularly posting updates to my site. Consequently, I procrastinate getting all the good news down; the list grows, which then feels like a huge undertaking, and I arrive here: a massive update to celebrate the community I’ve been fortunate to be a part of these past few months. So, bear with me as I go through the essential thank you’s…

In mid-January, I traveled to Mexico for the first time to participate with The Chestnut Review’s writer’s retreat in Mérida. Twelve writers, six fiction authors and six poets, from all over the world converged with mag editors David Galloway and Maria Picone on the beautiful grounds of Hotel Luz en Yucatan for daily critique and generation workshops…