My Work
Samples of my work from my time as a Writer/Editor/Communications Manager with the National Park Service and the Shenandoah National Park Trust:
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2023 Impact Report
Shenandoah National Park Trust
Includes: impact narratives; program statistics; financial reports; donor list.
NPS Community Assistance Guide
NPS – Rivers, Trails & Conservation Assistance Program
Includes: Brief project stories and program descriptions.
2024 Summer Newsletter
Shenandoah National Park Trust
Includes: narrative program/project updates; donor feature.
2025 Field Guide
Shenandoah National Park Trust
Includes: comprehensive, concise program & project descriptions.
2024 Annual Report
Rosenwald Park Campaign
Includes: impact narratives; event and legislative updates, financial report.
2024 Art in the Park Event Program
Shenandoah National Park Trust
Includes: Event info, workshop descriptions, and artists.
My Publications
Wishing Home
Shenandoah Fantastic: Mystic Whispers from the Valley’s Vales
Short Story | Whitaker Lyon Press | February 2026
The soul of a tree is a hard thing to capture, but with a butterfly net and a milk jug full of pond water, Amelia thought she just might manage it…
11-year-old Amelia knows this unfamiliar, too-green valley isn’t home. She also knows that captured tree souls grant wishes.
When her struggle with silence gets her stuck in the school basement, and her strange rescuer seems to have all the answers, Amelia learns that the lush Virginia landscape might have everything she needs to make her wish come true. But wishes rarely play out the way they’re planned, and Amelia must find her voice if she’s ever going to find her home.
Hope is a Thing with Brittle Scales
Virginia Fantastic: Flash Fiction from the Old Dominion
Flash Fiction | Whitaker Lyon Press | October 2026
In a bay guarded by the capes of faraway kings, Merya sang to the sea and the things that it carried…
Merya has been stewarding this corner of the sea for centuries. She has watched colonies arrive, patched up countless blue crab shells, and stayed behind while the rest of her kind sought clearer waters. She’s even made peace with the giant tunnel that collapsed her warren of sand burrows.
But when winter winds blow a ship into the bridge, threatening harm to the tunnel and the things that it carries, Merya must decide just how much she’ll give to protect every piece of life in these waters.
All Dogs Go to Quirk
Richmond Fantastic
Short Story | Whitaker Lyon Press | Fall 2026
The Quirk Hotel might not have been the obvious choice for the doors to the canine afterlife, but it did the job perfectly well. Well, almost perfectly well. There was the issue of Mocha…
Mocha decided to haunt the Quirk Hotel instead of getting on the elevator to the afterlife. It seemed like a perfectly good decision, until the soul of an old nemesis decides to do the same.
Suddenly, the hotel isn’t the safe haven for a dog’s soul to run wild, full of new colors and soft items to pilfer. Now, it’s full of enemies and choices, and Mocha might just have to learn what it means to let go.