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Summer Farm<\/a><\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

For fourteen-year-old Kim Silva, the Cascade Farm stable is the first place she has ever felt like she belongs. Awkward and shy, she quickly forms an unbreakable bond with Dusty, a tall chestnut lesson horse with a perpetually twitching nose and a gentle heart. Kim begins earning extra rides by working at the barn, eager to spend every possible moment with her new friends, and her quiet confidence starts to grow\u2014but then she overhears a secret that threatens to destroy everything: the farm is slated for rezoning and commercial development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Light in the Trees<\/a><\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

A memoir of home, nature, and change in the American West, Light in the Trees makes cultural and environmental topics personal through a narrator\u2019s travels between past and present, rural and urban. Growing up on a mountain foothill in western Washington, Gail Folkins offers a small-town viewpoint of the Pacific Northwest. Sasquatch myths and serial killer realities, a runaway Appaloosa, and turbulent volcanoes beneath serene mountaintops help chronicle a coming of age for both a narrator and a place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Texas Dance Halls<\/a><\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Texas Dance Halls: A Two-Step Circuit, a creative nonfiction book, takes you on a journey to eighteen dance halls. Along the way, meet musicians, owners, and patrons who keep these historic sites vibrant. Photographs by J. Marcus Weekley help illustrate their stories. Texas Dance Halls was named a finalist in the Foreword Reviews 2007 Book of the Year Awards<\/a> in the Popular Culture category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn the rhythm and swirl of these images and words, we are but one step removed from the dance.\u201d \u2014 Andy Wilkinson, from the Preface<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Blue Norther<\/a><\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 essay from \u201cDispatches\u201d section of The Common<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Duet<\/a><\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 essay from River Teeth Beautiful Things<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Texas Dance Halls: History, Culture, and Community<\/strong><\/a><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Texas Dance Halls: History, Culture, and Community
\u2014 scholarly essay from the Journal of Texas Music History<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

List of Works Published<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Books <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Summer Farm.<\/em> Trafalgar Square Books, forthcoming in 2027. Print<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Light in the Trees<\/em>. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2016. Print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Texas Dance Halls: A Two-Step Circuit<\/em>. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2007. Print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prose \u2013 Creative Nonfiction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTending the Mountain,\u201d The Upper New Review<\/em> 26 Feb. (2026). Web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Not Talking<\/a>,” Short Reads<\/em> 2 Feb. (2026). Web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Recovery at Rattlesnake Lake,<\/a>” About Place Journal <\/em>Vol. 8 Issue I June (2024). Web. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Gap Winds<\/a>,” Under the Sun<\/em>, 9 May (2023). Web. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Six Stages of Air Quality<\/a>,” About Place Journal<\/em> Vol. 7 Issue II December (2022). Web. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Snow Lake,” Deep Wild Journal<\/em> Vol. 4 (2022): 25. Print. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Colleagues and Friends<\/a>.” JAKE<\/em> 4 July (2022). Web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Defensive Stance,” Crab Creek Review<\/em> Vol 1 (2022): 47. Print. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFollow the Energy: Two Riders on Writing.\u201d (co-written with Lisa Whalen). Cagibi <\/em>(April 2021).Web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFever Dream.\u201d Passager Books<\/em>, \u201cPandemic Diaries<\/a>\u201d (November 2020). Web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThrough the Ice.\u201d Proem<\/em> (Fall 2019): 14. Print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFrom a Distance.\u201d For Love of Orcas: An Anthology<\/em> (2019): 29. Print. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRunaway Horses.\u201d Concho River Review<\/em> 33.1 (Spring\/Summer 2019): 60. Print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWaiting on a Load.\u201d Timberline Review<\/em> 7 (2018): 91. Print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u201cGreat Nature Reads Set in the Pacific Northwest.\u201d 8 Favorite Reads<\/em>, August 2017. Web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBlue Norther.\u201d The Common – Dispatches<\/em> 5 Oct. (2016). Web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDuet.\u201d River Teeth Journal – Beautiful Things<\/em> 7 Sept. (2015). Web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI measure winter in cocoa, 59 servings just enough to sweeten days layered in snow and<\/p>\n\n\n\n

bitter cold.\u201d Tweet. Creative Nonfiction <\/em>56 (Summer 2015): 80. Print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cStall Rest.\u201d Her Texas: Story, Image, Poem, and Song<\/em>. Ed. Donna Walker-Nixon. San Antonio: Wings Press, 2015. Print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSnowbirds.\u201d Wisconsin Life<\/em>. Wisconsin Public Radio. WLBL-FM, Wausau. 8 May 2015. Radio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u201cTrilliums.\u201d Wisconsin Life<\/em>. Wisconsin Public Radio. WLBL-FM, Wausau. 9 Apr. 2014. Radio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u201cA Cultural Tour of Dance Halls.\u201d Texas Highways <\/em>60.8 2013: cover story. Print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThrough the Ashes.\u201d Wildflower<\/em> Magazine 39.2 2013: cover story. Print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRight at Home.\u201d Texas Co-op Power<\/em> Sept. 2013: 12-14. Print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBus Stops<\/a>.\u201d Transitions Abroad<\/em> May (2013). Web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLaundry Lessons.\u201d North Dakota Quarterly<\/em> 78.2 & 3 (Spring\/Summer 2011): 129-135. Print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u201cBlackberry Summers.\u201d Caesura <\/em>(2011): 9-15. Print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cConifers Call: Comeback Kids in Second-Growth Forests.\u201d Wildflower <\/em>Magazine 28.2 2011: 27. Print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA Route for the Wild.\u201d Wildflower <\/em>Magazine 28.1 2011: 32. Print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAfter a Fall.\u201d The Common<\/em> summer (2011). Web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cUpstream.\u201d Imagination & Place: Ownership<\/em>. Lawrence: Imagine & Place Press, 2010: 148\u2013156. Print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNebel.\u201d Centaur<\/em> Jan. (2010). Web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA Palouse Horse.\u201d Iron Horse Literary Review <\/em>11.3 (2009): 68\u201375. Print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDancing in the Round through Austin County.\u201d Round-Top Register<\/em> Winter 2009: 4-5. Print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c<\/em>Shoes.\u201d Melusine<\/em> summer (2009). Web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBigfoot in the Backyard.\u201d Fearsome Fascinations<\/em>. Dyer: Outrider Press, 2009: 71\u201376. Print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u201cLight in the Trees.\u201d Amoskeag<\/em>: The<\/em> Journal of Southern NH Univ. <\/em>spring (2009): 36\u201341. Print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u201cThe Face of Ancient Texas.\u201d Texas Co-op Power<\/em> Jan. 2007: cover story; 6\u201311. Print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFive Minutes More.\u201d The<\/em> Fourth River<\/em> autumn (2007): 26\u201332. Print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThree-Cheek Kiss.\u201d SLAB<\/em> spring (2006): 1\u201310. Print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAfter the Volcano.\u201d R-KV-R-Y<\/em> spring (2006). Web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTexas Dance Halls.\u201d Texas Co-op Power<\/em> Jan. 2006: cover story; 6\u20139. Print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFrom Horseback.\u201d Horse Crazy<\/em>. Ed. Bronwyn Llewellyn. Boston: Adams, 2005: 147\u2013153. Print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prose \u2013 Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cUnicorns.\u201d Skyline Magazine<\/em> summer (2007). Web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prose \u2013 Scholarly Articles<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cStraight from the Source: Primary Research and the Personality Profile.\u201d Assay<\/em>: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies<\/em> spring (2016). Web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTexas Dance Halls: History, Music, and Culture.\u201d The Journal of Texas Music History<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

fall (2006): 52\u201360. Print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFrom a Feast to the Moon \u2013 Two Journalists Define Paris.\u201d Lifewriting Annual: Biographical and<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Autobiographical Studies<\/em>. Brooklyn: AMS Press, 2005: 169\u2013176. Print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA Lone Voice in Country Protest Music: Steve Earle.\u201d New Texas<\/em> (2005): 19\u201335. Print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poetry<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cUpstream.\u201d Contemporary Rural Social Work<\/em>. 7.2 (2015): 174. Web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFondue Memory.\u201d A Taste of Literary Elegance:<\/em> Wine, Cheese, and Chocolate<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

San Andreas: Manzanita Writers Press, 2014: 63. Print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCedar Bear.\u201d di-verse-city <\/em>Founders\u2019 Edition (2003): 33. Print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThird Christmas After.\u201d Sorin Oak Review<\/em> First Edition (2002): 49. Print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTrain Song.\u201d Sorin Oak Review<\/em> First Edition (2002): 36. Print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNew Eden.\u201d Pink Cadillac<\/em> 6.2 (2002): 6. Print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Stranger.\u201d Pink Cadillac<\/em> 6.2 (2002): 2. Print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBeyond the Last Sunset.\u201d Persona <\/em>(1996): 57. Print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Artist\u2019s Sink.\u201d Persona<\/em> (1993): 54. Print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe Ponders Lack of Laundry Change with Red Hanrahan\u2019s Shade.\u201d Persona<\/em> (1993): 36. Print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book Reviews and Interview<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rev. of The Days Are Gods<\/em>, by Liz Stephens. The<\/em> Florida Review<\/em> 39.1 & 2 (2015): 249\u2013250. Print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rev. of Women in Texas Music<\/em>, by Kathleen Hudson. Great Plains Quarterly<\/em> 29.2 (2009): 165\u2013166.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Print. \u201cInterview with Dennis Covington.\u201d The Fourth River<\/em> autumn (2007): 132\u2013136. Print.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summer Farm For fourteen-year-old Kim Silva, the Cascade Farm stable is the first place she has ever felt like she belongs. Awkward and shy, she quickly forms an unbreakable bond with Dusty, a tall chestnut lesson horse with a perpetually twitching nose and a gentle heart. Kim begins earning extra rides by working at the … <\/p>\n

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