All Seated in a Barn | 2025

During the Los Angeles Fires and the recovery of victims including horses and animals, Sun Literary is grateful to donate a portion of its profits in support for the work and generosity of Tahlia Fischer and her nonprofit All Seated in a Barn during this crisis and in its ongoing horse rescue efforts. 

Wildlands Conservancy | 2024

Stewarding some of California's most remarkable and important landscapes, Sun Literary has not only donated a portion of its profits but thoroughly enjoyed hikes through its various wildlands preserves.

Joshua Tree Shelter | 2024

The only no-kill animal shelter in the desert region of Joshua Tree and Morongo Basin, Sun Literary is grateful to have donated time and a portion of its profits in support of this warm-hearted grassroots nonprofit.

The Nature Conservancy | 2021-2024

Sun Literary is proud to support Bison and Tallgrass Prairie Conservation in Oklahoma. Since 1986, The Nature Conservancy has worked to conserve Oklahoma's natural landscapes and biodiversity such as the American Buffalo.

Black Indian

As a descendant of African Americans, American Indians, and Europeans, Shonda Buchanan's journey is one of reckoning with multiple inheritances. Many of us identify with a predominant identity and the familial stories we were told growing up; but Shonda’s story begs the question: if we point to various places on the map to locate all of our ancestors, how many of us would find conflicting histories of loss, removal, immigration, slavery, indentured servitude, settlers, and conquest coursing through our blood?

In a conversation with UNUM, Shonda provokes answers that are both medicine and a knife, the kind Langston Hughes describes: Let us take a knife and cut the world in two – and see what worms are eating at the rind.

Featuring Shonda Buchanan, award-winning author of Black Indian. In honor of National Native American Heritage Month, read the full feature in UNUM Magazine, November 2020. (Reprinted with permission in Advanced Studies in England)

Long Rider

Long riders are rare today; still rarer it seems, a traveler who doesn’t construct a feed or a following. Bernice  Ende camps without internet, almost full time. I had traced her map where I could, following snippets on social media where someone had driven past her on a highway or hiked across her campsite. She navigates her way through urban cities and untamed lands at 4 miles per hour, and fences have taken on the grievances they inspired in the Old West. She has encountered grizzlies and snowstorms, outrun a tornado, had a stranger pull a gun on her, and has foraged for her own food and shelter daily. The day Bernice Ende set out to ride her Fjords – a strong horse breed from the mountains of Norway – across the country and beyond, she was fifty-years-wise. At a time in life when people are usually settling in, Bernice Ende was starting out on her most extraordinary journey.

The worldwide Long Riders’ Guild defines a long rider as someone who has ridden more than 1,000 continuous miles on a single equestrian journey. From 2005 till now, she has exceeded that distance thirty times over.

When I finally got ahold of Bernice, she agreed to get on the phone with me one Wednesday afternoon, and while I sat at my kitchen table and she bunked in someone’s barn, we began to map a narrative that speaks to obstacles, transformations, and riding into unknowns. 

Read the full feature in UNUM Magazine, May 2020.

HUNTER'S HOME | 2016-2019

From inception, I've partnered in passion projects and supported advocacy for the marginalized, such as Red with Love, All Things New, and Honor the Treaties. In 2016-2019, my passion project was to elevate the narrative of The Hunter's Home in Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma, an historical house on road on a map that intersects deeply with my own.