Non-Fiction
In July, 2021, I bikepacked the Pony Express Trail from St. Joseph, MO to Salt Lake City, UT. My travel narrative about the ride is forthcoming from TwoDot Books. The book is scheduled to be published June 1, 2023. You can pre-order a copy here. You can learn more about that at my ride website, Pony Express Ride.
“The Pony Express: Nuggets of Truth“
A two-part article that appears in the 2023 Summer and Fall issues (Vol. 41, Numbers 2 and 3) of the Overland Journal, the quarterly publication of the Oregon-California Trails Association. This two-part article won the Merrill J. Mattes Award for Excellence in Writing.
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Article for the Wyoming Historical Society. Learn more >
Short Stories
“Fire Illness” Runner up, 2017 Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize, Hunger Mountain (Matt Bell, judge)
“The Rides of March” StoryQuarterly (Issue No. 51)
“Sailing Lessons” Meat for Tea (Volume 13, Issue 1)
“San Andreas’ Fault” Black Fork Review (Issue 2)
“DACAmented” Kestrel (Issue 42, Spring 2020)
Creative Nonfiction
Dead Fucking Last: Riding the Gold Rush Randonne
An extended piece documenting my experience riding in the 2009 Gold Rush Randonnee, a 750-mile cycling event that runs from Davis, CA to the Oregon border and back.
“Peanut Butter” little somethings press (Issue 2, Spring 2020)
Novella
Will Kill for Food one of three winning novellas of the 2014 Black Hill Press Summer Writing Project.
Essays
Essays on seamanship, the art and skill of boat handling, published in Bay Crossings. To read the articles, go to Bay Crossings’s website and search “alumbaugh.”