My Writing: Publications

Like many who edit others, I write too. Below is a list of my published creative work, primarily literary fiction and poetry. I am available to edit and provide feedback on short stories (literary fiction, horror), essays, and memoir. As a former reader for both a small press and a literary magazine, I understand what editors are looking for and can help you refine your work and make it ready for submission.

Fiction:

• "Aftershocks" (Flash fiction). Atticus Review. May 5, 2020.
• "A Good, Sturdy Car for a Young Woman on the Go" (Flash fiction). Monkeybicycle. February 2020. (Online) -- Included in syllabus for Intro to Creative Writing, Miami University, Spring 2020. Nominated for inclusion in Best Small Fictions 2021.
• "Dolores Watches a Documentary" (Flash fiction). Necessary Fiction. September 2019. (Online)
• "Skin Tag" (Flash fiction). Bending Genres 8. April 2019. (Online) -- Included in Bending Genres Anthology, 2018/2019.
• "Do, Do, Do" (Flash fiction). Phantom Drift: A Journal of New Fabulism Issue 8. Winter 2019. (Print)
• "A Map of China" (Flash fiction). [PANK] 13. Winter 2018. (Print)
• "Saint Patient" (short story). Kaaterskill Basin Literary Journal 1.4. Fall 2016. (Online) (Nominated, PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Fiction Prize; Finalist, Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize)

Poetry:

• "Landscape with Houses." Bracken VI. Fall 2018. (Online)
• "At Dusk" (includes audio recording). concis. Summer 2017. (Online)
• "Fat Bird," "The Place I Come to" (2 poems). The Fourth River 0.3. Fall 2016. (Online)
• "Welcome to Womanhood." Hysteria Anthology, Sable Books. Forthcoming.
• "Slight Breeze." Ekphrasis Journal Vol. 6 No. 4. Fall/Winter 2013. (Print)
• "Centinela." Solstice Literary Magazine. Summer 2012. (Online) (Finalist, Stephen Dunn Prize)
• "Hockey Rink." Slipstream 25. 2005. (Print)
• "Benediction," "Paranoia" (2 poems, featured poet). FRiGG Journal 4. 2004. (Online)
• "In Juarez." 88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry, Volume 1 (Hollyridge Press). 2001. (Print)
• "Risk." The Pedestal Magazine. 2001. Later excerpted in NewPages.com. (Online)
• "Chapter Eleven," "Sororicide" (2 poems). Freudian Shrimp. (Print)
• "Montague, Massachusetts." Poems Niederngasse. (Print)
• "Bang the Drum Slowly," "Milagra" (2 poems). 3rd Muse. (Print)
• "A Word from the Seated Bather." Iguanaland. (Print)

Creative Nonfiction:

• "Leftovers," The Rumpus (Readers Report Back), 2011. (Online)

Awards/Fellowships/Honors:

• Honorable Mention, Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction contest, July/Aug. 2018.
• Chapman University fiction workshop with Richard Bausch, 2016.
• Honorable Mention, Glimmer Train Family Matters contest, Nov./Dec. 2016.
• Nominee, PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Fiction Prize for Emerging Writers, 2016.
• Finalist, Stephen Dunn Prize – given by Solstice Literary Magazine, 2012.
• Finalist, Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize, given by Hunger Mountain, 2005.