"Something glitters in the bright Spring light on the far side of Evans Creek. Something moves, and I stop. Watch. A black-billed magpie stands at the top of the far bank, wings open wide and slightly drooped, head down, tail feathers spread like a Spanish fan, back feathers raised and fluffed."
From "A Question of Corvids"
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Back-billed magpie "anting," Reno, Nevada. Photo ©Sheila Boneham
Select Essays & Poems
"A Question of Corvids" - essay
2015 Best American Science and Nature Writing (Mariner, 2015).
Prime Number Magazine, Editors' Selections, Volume 4 (2014).
Prime Number Magazine (Issue 62, October 2014)
2014 Prime Number Magazine Prize for Creative Nonfiction
"On Eating My Way Through a Feast of Poems" - poem
Minerva Rising (Fall 2014).
"Spin" - poem
The Written River: A Journal of Eco-poetics (Vol. 5, Issue 1, Summer 2014).
"To a Kurdish Child" - poem
Red Earth Review (Issue 2, July 2014).
"Nocturne: Nebraska" - essay
The Wayfarer (Vol. 3, Issue 1, Winter 2014).
"The ‘I’ States" - essay
The Museum of Americana (Vol. 5, Winter 2014).