Hello. I am a lawyer and writer living in Nebraska. I write about a lot of things:

Legal

By day, I serve as the Executive Director of the Nebraska Public Service Commission. Previously, I served as General Counsel, and I’ve been a practicing lawyer in Nebraska for more than 15 years. I also worked as the Director of Procurement and Grants for the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services; for five years before that, I was an attorney for the Department. I started my career as a law clerk and then as an Assistant Attorney General at the Nebraska Attorney General’s Office. I’ve done a little bit of everything in government legal work—contracts, grants, pretrial and trail litigation, administrative hearings, and appellate advocacy.

Procurement and Grants

In addition to my job at the PSC, I am an independent consultant. I primarily work with Civic Initiatives, LLC, a consulting firm that provides expert support for government agencies and other entities in procurement and grants. I closely track developments in federal and state procurement and grant law.

More about my consulting work here.

Essays and Book Reviews

My essays and book reviews have appeared in numerous publications—including, most recently, the Ploughshares Blog, The Colorado Review online, and Literal Magazine. My niche in reviewing is Spanish language books and Spanish language literature, especially not well-enough known female Central and South American writers.

Fiction

My short stories have appeared in several publications, with one most recently in Words Faire, Hawai’i Pacific Review, Arts & Letters and Emerys Journal. My fiction ranges all over the place, but as my story “Brahms’ Lullaby” can attest, I love twisting historical fiction into something new. Because of my personal experience, I also write a lot about people with disabilities, especially intellectual or developmental disabilities.