Books & Publications
Stories, Collaborations, and Creative Experiments in Print
Wild Thing, I Think I Love You!
Close Encounters with Wildlife Around the World
A warm, funny, and unforgettable collection of true stories about the animals that have shaped my life.
The Curious Traveler Collection
Three award-winning collections of true travel stories.
Lost, Kidnapped,
Eaten Alive!
Turmoil: Escape kidnappers in a foreign desert, lock the keys in your car in the middle of the Outback, accidentally marry a Maasai warrior…
Your Crocodile
has Arrived
Oddities: Enjoy a whole-body chocolate massage, pilgrimage to visit a sacred tooth, see a 20-foot-long earthworm, befriend a Brazilian shaman…
An Elephant Ate
My Arm
Intrigue: Perform a photographic invasion of Libya, eat a Japanese pizza that seems to be alive, visit a glass case full of shrunken heads, walk on a man-eating lake…
More Ways to Tell a Story
Exploring the world through words, images, and design
Adventure Journals
Large format photographic journals created with my husband after major international journeys.
Zines and Illustrated Stories
Four illustrated publications, including a wildlife conservation comic.
Other Publications
Co-Edited Books
Award-winning collaborative publications
Anthologies
Selected anthologies featuring my work
In Ancient Greek, ouroboros means tail-devouring. I’m captivated by the image — a serpent swallowing its own tail, being created through its own destruction. The symbol’s meaning is nearly as varied as the many cultures that have embraced it over millennia, but there’s a beautiful unity in what it represents: regeneration, reincarnation, immortality, the cycle of life and death, the harmony of opposites, the eternal unity of all things, perpetuity and infinity.
That tail-devouring, destruction-and-rebirth theme undergirds many of my stories, though often subtly. That’s why I love including it as an emblem for the Curious Traveler series.
The image used here is after a woodcut in a 1760 book titled Uraltes Chymisches Werck von Abraham Eleazar, or the Age Old Chemical Work of Abraham Eleazar.