The brilliant poet-essayist Julie Marie Wade initiated a conversation with me about Off Izaak Walton Road for the online nonfiction journal Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies. I know that Julie’s deep reading and thinking about craft and heart is inimitable, but I was nonetheless astonished at how her questions sent me off for days thinking about writing matters. (August 15, 2025)

When Tom Dean wrote this review for the Iowa City monthly magazine, Little Village, he actually took a drive down Izaak Walton Road to get a feel for it, as he told me. I’m very grateful for his time and his prose, particularly because he pays close and deep attention to the natural world in his own nonfiction. (July 2025)

River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative published “An Emotional Ecology: Love and Loss by the Iowa River,” a review by Tarn Wilson, herself an award-winning memoir writer. There’s nothing sweeter than to have another writer of nonfiction dive into my work and “get” it. Thank you, Tarn. (June 6, 2025)

John Busbee, host of Culture Buzz, an award-winning weekly program focusing on the arts, literature, entertainment, and culture events in the Des Moines area and streaming on KFMG-LP 98.9 FM, posted a conversation with me in advance of my reading at the super-friendly Beaverdale Books on June 20, 2025.

Prolific blogger Deborah Kalb posted a Q&A with me in April 2025.