Annie Finch on constructing Spells. Wesleyan University Press: 2013.

From Christian Wiman’s My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer. Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 2013.

From Robin Hemley’s A Field Guide for Immersion Writing: Memoir, Journalism, and travel. University of George Press: 2012.

From The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language by Natalie Goldberg. Atria, 2013.

From The 6.5 Practices of Moderately Successful Poets: A Self-Help Memoir. Ed. Jeffrey Skinner, Sarabande Books, 2012.

From Adrienne Rich’s Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations. W. W. Norton & Company, 2002.

From John Hollander’s Rhyme’s Reason. Yale University Press, 2001.

From Francis Flaherty’s Elements of Story: Field Notes on Nonfiction Writing. HarperCollins Publishers, 2009.

From Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction by Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd. Random House, 2013.

From Inferno: A Poet’s Novel by Eileen Myles.