Selected Writing

Books

• Violence, Silence, and Sacrifice: the Mother-Daughter Relationship in the Short Fiction of Irish Women Writers, 1890-1980.  University of Notre Dame.

Chapters

• “’I Wasn’t a Bit Maternal’: Mary Lavin’s Critique of Irish Motherhood” in Joy Interrupted: an Anthology on Motherhood & Loss (ed. Melissa Miles McCarter). Fat Daddy’s Press.
• “Playing Hide and Seek: Losing and Finding My Mother” in Joy Interrupted: an Anthology on Motherhood & Loss (ed. Melissa Miles McCarter). Fat Daddy’s Press.
• “Lady Justice: Social Sleuthing & Sister Fidelma” in The Sister Fidelma Mysteries: Essays on the Historical Novels of Peter Tremayne  (eds. Edward J. Reilly & David R. Wooten). McFarland Press.

Peer-reviewed articles

• “Habitat-fed Food: Grass-fed Beef and Sustainable Solutions.” Biodiversity.
• “Where is the Love? Using the Black Eyed Peas to Reach Expository Writing Students” with Heidi Blackburn. New Prairie Press.
• “Dying for Ireland: Violence, Silence, and Sacrifice in Dorothy Macardle’s Earth-Bound: Nine Stories of Ireland (1924). New Hibernia Review

Food reports

• “Catering to the Climate.” Center for Biological Diversity.
• “Slow Road to Zero.” Center for Biological Diversity.
• “Checked Out.” Center for Biological Diversity.

Newsletters and Blogs

• Food X
• Eat Wild
• Medium

Environmental Advocacy

• McDonald’s Expansion Will Grill the Planet. Crain’s Chicago Business.
• “Federal Ag Department’s Climate-Smart Funding Fails the Grade.” Capitol Weekly.
• “On Drought, Gov. Newsom Ignores the Cow in the Room.” Los Angeles Times.
• “The Amazon is Burning – Biden Can Help Save It.” The Hill.
• “High Court Ruling on Prop. 12 Could Impact Climate, Consumers.” Capitol Weekly.
• “To Slow Climate Change, We Must Reimagine What It Means to Eat Like an American.” FoodTank. 
• “USDA Needs to Put Climate Solutions Before Industry Profits.” The Hill.
• “The Beef With McDonald’s Net Zero Climate Commitment.” Chicago Business.
• “Beef Industry Won’t Protect Climate-Scorched Canada.” Hamilton Spectator.
• “Grocery Stores Need to Stop Buying Into Food Waste. Here’s Why.” Grocery Dive.
• “No Regenerative Grazing is Not Good for Grassland Birds.” Mongabay.
• “Magical Cows and the Colonization of Western Public Lands.” Salt Lake Tribune.
• “The Food System is Built on White Supremacy.” Sentient Media.
• “5 Ways USDA’s School Programs Fail “Start Simple.” Food Dive. 
• “McClimate Change: Is it So Impossible for McDonald’s to Serve Plant-Based Options?” Chicago Business. 
• “Beef Industry Takes the Biggest Bite Out of Earth’s Natural Resources.” EcoWatch. 
• “Climate-friendly Beef is a Myth, Don’t Buy It.” In These Times. 
• “The Best Formula for Human Health and the Planet: Mother’s Milk.” Sustainability Times. 
• “When It Comes to Food Waste, Shoppers Aren’t the Only Ones to Blame.” Food Tank. 
• “How to Feed the World While Curbing Our Appetite for Destruction.” The Guardian. 
• “5 Reasons You Should Ditch Meat for This Food If You Want to Save Money and Fight Climate Change.” One Green Planet.
• “Amazon-Whole Foods Deal Could Mean Prime Waste“. Food Tank.
• “We Can Address Food Waste at Home First.” USA Today.
• “Don’t Let Trump Hand this Pristine Monument to Industry.” The Sacramento Bee. 
• “Wild California in a Trump Administration.” KCET.
• “Shocking Food Labels Expose What Our Meat Addiction Means for Wildlife.” One Green Planet.
• “A Bad Boutique Law Shows Its Skin.” The Daily Journal.
• “War of Nutrition: Big Mayo Bullies Eco-Friendly ‘Just Mayo.’ The Dodo. 
• “Why the Animal Ag Industry Needs More Than Good Samaritans to Make a Change.” One Green Planet.
• “5 Things You Didn’t Know About the Carriage-Horse Industry.” The Dodo.
• “Liberty and Justice for All: an Animal Bill of Rights.” One Green Planet.
• “Domestic Violence & Animal Cruelty.” Encyclopedia Britannica.
• “Aaron Simpson: Fighter in the Hen House.” Our Hen House.
• “Wolf Hunting: the Final Frontier.” Encyclopedia Britannica

Book reviews and author interviews

• Joshua Horwitz, The War of the Whales and War of the Whales Case Study.
• Will Potter, Green is the New Red: an Insider’s Account of a Social Movement Under Siege. And “‘These Activists Make Upton Sinclair’s Jungle Look Tame.’“
• David Grimm, Citizen Canine: Our Evolving Relationship with Cats and Dogs.
• Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Beasts: What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good and Evil.
• David Kirby, Death at Sea World. 
• Jim Yuskavitch, In Wolf Country: the Power and Politics of Reintroduction.
• Mark Hawthorne, Bleating Hearts: the Hidden World of Animal Suffering.
• Susan Orlean, Rin Tin Tin: the Life and the Legend.
• James McWilliams, The Modern Savage.
• “Love in Infant Monkeys.” ALDF.org.
• “David Grimm’s Citizen Canine.  ALDF.org.
• “Charles Siebert’s ‘Rough Beasts: the Zanesville Zoo Massacre, 1 Year Later.’ Our Hen House.
• “Jeff Corwin’s Explorer Series: SHARKS.”  Our Hen House.
• “Green is the New Red: an Insider’s Account of a Social Movement Under Siege, by Will Potter.” Our Hen House.

Blogging – Medium

• “Grizzly End for Endangered Bears in Montana.”
• “I’m Thankful for Wilderness and Wildlife.”
• “Fertilizing Catastrophe.“
• “Appetite For Destruction.”
• “Eating Away at Biodiversity.”
• “Eat Wild in 2016: Five Ways Your Diet Resolutions Can Save Wildlife, Help the Planet.”
• “Wildcat Roar: When Mountain Lions Live Under the House.“

Guest blogs

• “Cecil the Lion: Will U.S. Laws Hold Trophy Killer Accountable?” AnimalBlawg.com. (Re-printed in Advocacy Britannica).
• “Coexistence with Coyotes.” AnimalBlawg.com. 2015.
• “Reckless CA Killing Contests Continue, Despite Ban.” ALDF.org.
• “November Song Dogs.” Coyot.es. 2014.
• “California Gives ESA Protection to Lone Wolf and His Pups.”
• “Maternal Deprivation: the Cruelest Research Continues.” ALDF.org.
• “Truths Self-Evident: Lincoln and the Rights of Animals.” ALDF.org,
• “Monkey Business: Animal Rights and Human Responsibilities.” ALDF.org.

Essays, prose & poetry

• “Winter.” Readers Write. The Sun Magazine.
• “Leaving Oz.” The Emerald.
• “Redneck Hippies.” The Emerald.
• “Why I’ll Be Out of Town on Valentine’s Day.” Curvy Girl Guide.“Fishtank” and “Transmission.” Poems for Ezine. Be About It.