Recent Updates & Upcoming:

• Check out December's Laurel of Asheville

• Read a review by poet Bill Griffin on Image & Verse

• Check out this mini-review by poet Jenna Filbrun on Instagram

• Happy to get a mention on JoAnne Growney's blog Intersections: Poetry with Mathematics 

• "Unexpected Results: when your math tutor is a poet" on Mathematical Association of America's blog Math Values

• "Coastal Prayer" in Redheaded Stepchild Magazine

• "Enrolled," "If things feel unfair, count." & "Dementia Sandwich" in BRILLIG: a micro lit mag Winter/Spring 2024

• "Same" in Cosmic Daffodil's Yin & Yang Issue

• "Yoga for the Apathy of Rocks" in The Heimat Review

• "He Leaves Instructions on the Whiteboard: Systems of Linear Inequalities" in J Journal: New Writing on Justice

• "Midlife Calculus" in February issue of  Scientific American

• "Noise" in  Anabaptist World

• "Ponder, as Mary" on Christmas Day in Anabaptist World

• "Z-Score of Zero" forthcoming in Mathematics Association of America FOCUS

• "Property Management" out now in Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel Literary Magazine

• My poem "Mathematics of Change" appeared in August as a part of North Carolina's Poetry in Plain Sight project - the very same month that I became an "empty nester." 

• "stephen + carina" in Soft Star Magazine

2024 Reading List

Current/Upcoming:  

• A City on Mars by Kelly & Zach Weinersmith 

• Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray by Sabine Hossenfelder

Completed:

• Once Upon a Prime by Sarah B. Hart

• Tales from the Folly* by Benn Arrington

• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

• Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

• Whalefall by Daniel Kraus

• Even as We Breathe  by Annette Sanook-Clapsaddle (re-read)

• Arcadia by Lauren Groff

• Hagitude by Sharon Blackie

• Divine Language: Learning Algebra, Geometry, and Calculus at the Edge of Old Age by Alec Wilkinson

• Shae by Mesha Maren

• Demise of Pangea by Claudine R. Moreau

• Stop and Smell the Fractals by by Caroline Jennings

• Rivers of London* by Ben Aaronovitch

• The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar

• Akata Woman* by Nnedi Okorafor

• Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley

• Binti* & Binti: Home* by Nnedi Okorafor

• Gideon the Ninth & Harrow the Ninth*  by Tamsyn Muir

• Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower* by Tamsyn Muir

• The Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley

• Witch King by Martha Wells *

• Mathematics for Ladies: Poems on Women in Science by Jessy Randall

• Building the Life You Want by Arthur C. Brooks & Oprah Winfrey

• Camp Zero by Michelle Min Sterling *

• The Ferryman by Justin Cronin

* audiobook through Libby

2023 Reading List:

• Systems Collapse by Martha Wells

• A House Between Earth and the Moon by Rebecca Scherm *

• The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler

• Playing Big  by Tara Mohr

• The Terraformers  by Annalee Newitz*

• Under this Forgetful Sky by Lauren Yero

• The Last Astronaut by David Wellington*

• How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu *

• Half Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys *

• The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal

• The Menopause Manifesto by Jen Gunter

• Upgrade by Blake Crouch*

• Goldilocks by L.R. Lam*

• Hellbent by  Leigh Bardugo

• Winter World by A.G. Riddle*

• The Last Watch by J.S. Dewes

• How to Be Both by Ali Smith

• Activation Degredation by Marina J. Lostetter

• Black Sun & Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse

• Hell of a Book by Jason Mott