Author and Associate Producer: No Place Like Home
Author of No Place Like Home: Lessons in Activism from LGBT Kansas.
- Winner: Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize
- Finalist: Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ nonfiction
- A Kansas Notable Book
Associate Producer of No Place Like Home: The Struggle Against Hate in Kansas.
Selected Essays and Reporting
The Queer Love Project: She Talked to Angels
sneaker wave magazine: boys of the 70s
Switchyard:
- Is This The End of Democracy? (contributor)
- Outlaw Country
The New Territory: Literary Landscapes: Mari Sandoz Gravesite, Sheridan County, Nebraska
Catapult Magazine: Patti Smith Defined Cool in Lesbian Bars of the '80s
Kansas Reflector: Kansas should celebrate the legacy of Jon Reed Sims, son of Smith Center
KCUR: Rainbow Flag's Creator Didn't Celebrate His Home State But Some Kansans Are Keeping His Memory Alive
Book chapters
"Parsons Brings the Pride Flag Home"
Kansas Matters: Twenty-First-Century Writers on the Sunflower State
Edited by Thomas Fox Averill and Leslie VonHolten
University Press of Kansas, 2025
“Mari Sandoz, Sheridan County, Nebraska"
Lingering Inland: A Literary Tour of the Midwest
Edited by Andy Oler
University of Illinois Press, 2025
"Lola—A Love Story"
Sweeter Voices Still: An LGBTQ Anthology from Middle America
Edited by Ryan Schuessler and Kevin Whiteneir, Jr.
Belt Publishing, 2020
"The Coolest Parents in Johnson County"
Midland: Reports from Flyover Country
Edited by Michael Croley and Jack Shuster
Simon & Schuster, 2020
Radio features
KCUR: The Faces Of Long-Gone Women Tell A New Story Of The Kansas State Prison.
NPR: Transgender Choruses Harness The (Changing) Power Of Voices
NPR: Among Folk Musicians, Protest Music's Future Is Up For Debate
NPR: With Powerful Murals, Hale Woodruff Paved The Way For African-American Artists
NPR: Solving The Vinyl Comeback's Problem, One Antique Machine At A Time
NPR: Ornery Artist's Hand-Lettered Screeds Helped Him Keep The World At Bay
Here & Now: Visiting Kansas' Iconic 'Home On The Range'
Here & Now: How An Iowa Small Town Became An Art Oasis
Here & Now: How One Kansas Town Is Remembering A Group Of Unlikely Settlers