Notable in Best American Travel Writing 2014
“Fire Ants,” which originally appeared in Vela Magazine, has been shortlisted for Best American Travel Writing 2014, edited by Paul Theroux. Read the essay here: http://velamag.com/fire-ants/
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Prize Winners
The Lifecycle of Butterflies
RE-PUBLISHED ON VELA MAGAZINE. This essay was a finalist for the 2013 Annie Dillard Prize and won that year’s essay prize from The Pinch, where it was published in the Spring 2014 issue. It is now available to read online compliments of Vela. …Perhaps my navigational equipment is damaged. Perhaps I …
Best Travel Articles of 2013 from GoNomad
“In the Land of the Monarchs” has been named one of the top ten travel articles of 2013 on GoNomad. You can read the article here.
Best Women’s Travel Writing Inclusion
“Who Made this Grave,” an essay that originally appeared in Vela, has been included in Best Women’s Travel Writing anthology (available at your local bookstore or anywhere online). This is a lovely anthology and I am honored to be included for a second year.
Winner of The Pinch Literary Prize in Nonfiction
PUBLISHED BY THE PINCH: Judge Abigail Thomas selected “Lifecycle of Butterflies” for the 2013 Literary Prize in Nonfiction. About the essay, Thomas writes: “Beer compares the lifecycle of the Monarch butterfly and its fantastic migrations with her own life of seemingly random wanderings. This is a fascinating, beautifully written and ultimately very …
Annie Dillard Prize Runner-Up
“Under the Fifth Sun” has been named the runner-up for this year’s Annie Dillard Prize in Creative Nonfiction by the ever-impressive Dinah Lenney. Thank you to the Bellingham Review, and Brenda Miller in particular, for their work officiating this contest every year, and for honoring my work. This particular essay …
2013 Solas Best Travel Writing Awards Silver Medal
Read Silver Medal essay, “Wind Horses of Mustang,” here: http://velamag.com/wind-horses-of-mustang/ And check out the rest of this year’s Solas/Travelers’ Tales Best Travel Writing Awards here: http://www.besttravelwriting.com/award-winners-2013/ Congratulations to all, and gratitude!
Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship in Creative Writing at Colgate University
Fellowship and the Emerging Writer From Vela Magazine Sitting in my half-packed office at Colgate, I gazed outside at the spring rain dampening the old stone buildings of that beautiful campus. In that way that gray skies do, the overcast made the new green of the trees and grass more …
The Wind Horses of Mustang, Nepal
PUBLISHED ON VELA MAGAZINE. “Having a horse here is like having a motorbike in the city,” Bhupendra Sherchan explained the first day we rode out together on the flanks of snow-capped Nilgiri. The day was still pleasant and autumn-like, the light white, the winds as gentle as the sheep eddies in …
Notable in Best American Travel Writing 2006
“As You Set Out for Ithaka,” which originally appeared in FarFlung Magazine, has been shortlisted for Best American Travel Writing 2006, edited by Tim Cahill. Read the essay here: https://dean.williams.edu/files/2010/10/When-Rolling-Stones-Roll-Home.pdf