Anthologies

John’s stories and essays have been anthologized in the following collections:

• Limberlost Review 2024 edition, eds. Rick and Rosemary Ardinger (Limberlost Press, 2024)

• Dark Mountain, Issue 21, eds. Nick Hunt, Anthea Lawson, Eric Robertson (Dark Mountain Project, 2022)

• Dark Mountain, Issue 19, eds. Nancy Campbell, Michael McLane, Joanna Pocock (Dark Mountain Project, 2021)

• Stop the World: Snapshots from a Pandemic, ed. Lise McClendon (Thalia Press, 2020)

• Limberlost Review 2020 edition, eds. Rick and Rosemary Ardinger (Limberlost Press, 2020)

• Dark Mountain, Issue 16, eds. Charlotte du Cann, Anthea Lawson, Tom Smith (Dark Mountain Project, 2019)

• Matthew Barney: Redoubt (Yale University Art Gallery, 2019)

• Limberlost Review 2019 edition, eds. Rick and Rosemary Ardinger (Limberlost Press, 2019)

• Walking on Lava: Selected Works for Uncivilised Times, eds. Charlotte du Cann, Dougald Hine, Nick Hunt, Paul Kingsnorth (Dark Mountain Project, 2017)

• Dark Mountain, Issue 11, eds. Cate Chapman, Nick Hunt, Steve Wheeler (Dark Mountain Project, 2017)

• Dark Mountain, Issue 8, eds. Charlotte du Cann, Paul Kingsnorth, Tom Smith, Steve Wheeler (Dark Mountain Project, 2015)

• Dark Mountain, Issue 4, eds. Dougald Hine, Nick Hunt, Paul Kingsnorth, Adrienne Odasso (Dark Mountain Project, 2013)

• Dark Mountain, Issue 3, eds. Dougald Hine, Paul Kingsnorth, Adrienne Odasso (Dark Mountain Project, 2012)

• Dark Mountain, Issue 2, eds. Paul Kingsnorth and Dougald Hine (MPG Books Group, Bodmin and King’s Lynn, 2011)

• Best Stories of the American West, ed. Marc Jaffe (Forge, Tom Doherty Associates, 2007)

• Father Nature, eds. Paul S. Piper and Stan Tag (University of Iowa Press, 2003)

• Written on Water: Essays on Idaho Rivers, ed. Mary Clearman Blew (University of Idaho Press, 2001)

• Idaho Unbound: A Scrapbook and Guide, eds. Clay Morgan and Steve Mitchell (West Bound Books, 1995)

• Where the Morning Light’s Still Blue: Personal Essays about Idaho, eds. William Studebaker and Rick Ardinger (University of Idaho Press, 1994)

• In Black and White: Idaho Photography and Writing, eds. Gail Siegel and James R. Hepworth (University of Idaho Prichard Art Gallery and Confluence Press, 1994)

• Visions and Voices from the Northwest, ed. Johanna Hays (University of Idaho Press, 1993)

• Dreamers and Desperadoes: Contemporary Short Fiction of the American West, eds. Craig Lesley and Katheryn Stavrakis (Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1993)

• Traveler’s Tales: Thailand, eds. James O’Reilly and Larry Habegger (1993)

• Writer’s Northwest Handbook, 4th edition, eds. Dennis Stovall and Linny Stovall (Media Weavers, 1991)

• High Sky Overall: Idaho Fiction at the Centennial, eds. Richard Ardinger and Ford Swetnam (Idaho State University Press, 1990)

Periodicals

• Weekly column, Boise Weekly, 2013-2015

• “End Notes” column, Idaho Mountain Express, 2006-2011

• “A Few Rocks from the Box: A Meditation,” High Desert Journal issue 12, Fall 2010

• “When a Cold Place Turns Hot,” High Desert Journal issue 6, Fall 2007

• “The Truth and Other Howlers,” Montana Journalism Review, Summer 2007

• “When a Cold Place Turns Hot” and Interview, Silk Road Review issue 2, Spring 2007

• “The Best Seats in the House” (book review), Idaho Yesterdays, Fall/Winter 2006

• “Son of Banshee” (fiction), Ronde Dance, August 2006

• “Insulation Out the Door,” The Bear Deluxe Magazine, Spring-Summer 2006

• “Burning Willows,” High Desert Journal issue 2, Fall 2005

• “Exiles in the Now” (book review), Idaho Yesterdays, Summer 2005

• “Black on White” (Lost Trail), Skiing Magazine, March/April 2002

• “Conjuring Kiki,” Skiing Magazine, October 2001

• “Adventure in Andorra,” Skiing Magazine, March/April 2001

• “Safe Harbor” (Schweitzer Mountain), Skiing Magazine, January 2000

• “Red’s Retro Charm” (Red Mountain, B.C.), Mountain Sports and Living, Spring 1999

• “Searching for Truth and Beauty in the Sawtooths” Skiing Magazine, November 1998

• “The Slide of a Lifetime,” Mountain Sports and Living, September 1998

• “Bluegrass and Backcountry” (Telluride), Skiing Magazine, March/April 1998

• “The Rescuers” (Sun Valley Ski Patrol), Skiing Magazine, February 1998

• “Bigger’s Better” (Big Mountain, Montana), Snow Country, November 1997

• “Greenland Dreams,” Snow Country, February/March 1997

• “The Unknown Okanagan,” Snow Country, January 1997

• “Skiing the Volcanoes,” Snow Country, March 1996

• “Climbing to the Steeps in the Sawtooths,” Snow Country, December 1995

• “Adventures in the City of Skis” (Whistler/Blackcomb), Skiing Magazine, December 1995

• “Jumping In” (New Zealand), Skiing Magazine, February 1995

• “When Destinations Die,” Northern Lights, Winter 1994

• “Schweitzer Hits the Big Time,” Snow Country, December 1992

• “On the Lakes and Mountains of Up-Country Idaho,” Travel and Leisure, May 1992

• “View from the North” column, Idaho Mountain Express, 1988-1992

• “Mule Packer Memories,” Travel and Leisure, October 1991

• “A Good Life Over a Good Living” (McCall, Idaho), Snow Country, July/August 1991

• “Of Men and Mackinaw,” Wildlife Conservation, March/April 1991

• “Return of the Native,” Wildlife Conservation, September/October 1990

• “Cougar: The All-American Predator,” Wildlife Conservation, March/April 1990

• “The News of Our Lives,” The Redneck Review, Spring 1990

• “Thailand’s Highland Treasure,” Travel and Leisure, February 1990

• “Report from Sawtooth Valley” column, Boise Magazine, 1988-1990

• “Thai Time,” Travel and Leisure, November 1989

• “Who’ll Save the Land?” Travel and Leisure, March 1989

• “Water,” Sun Valley Magazine, Summer 1983

• “The Trustfunder” (fiction), Sun Valley Magazine, Fall/Winter 1982/83

• “A Country Gothic” (fiction), Sawtooth: A Journal of the Imagination, No. 4, 1979

• “So You Wanna Be A Cowgirl” (fiction), Fasching 78, December 1977

• “Scenes from a Trip to the Sawtooths,” Sun Valley Magazine, September 1976

• “The Tire” (fiction), Harvard Advocate, Spring 1973

• “Diary of a Wilderness Ranger,” Naturalist, Autumn 1971

Plays

Cowboy Dreams
Produced Spring 1994, Lewis-Clark State College
Produced December 1992, Albertson College of Idaho

Nightwind
Produced May 1991, Albertson College of Idaho
Produced May 1986, Montana Masquers Playwriting Festival