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selected publications and awards
prose
poetry
anthologies
positions, awards, & honors
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story collection

+ True Places Never Are: Stories, Moon City Press (winner of the Moon City Short Fiction Award)


 
selected prose

+ “Lookers,” forthcoming in Hypertext Review
+ “Unrhymed Sonnet Constructed with American Sentences,” Crack the Spine

+ “Making It,” Okay Donkey
+ “Poppies,” Riggwelter
+ “Last Days of Men,” Phoebe: A Journal of Literature and Art
+ “Light, Birds, Lake,” Spotlight Series, Split Rock Review
+ “Never Salute a Bare Head,” Derelict Lit
+ “Heretic,” Tahoma Literary Review
+ “Reservoir,” Atticus Review
+ “Certain Smile,” Barren Magazine
+ “Cherry Bomb,” TSS Publishing  ​
+ “Four Out of Five Dentists Agree,”Ellipsis Zine, Four: The Whisper Place
+ “Flag Guy,” Iron Horse Literary Review, Newsflash
+ “Routine Cleaning,” Heavy Feather Review
+ “Whispers Fill What Space Is Left,” CDC Poetry Project
+ “His Favorites,” Bull & Cross 
+ “Let Go,” Moon City Review 
+ “Come to Me,”TANK Magazine 
+ “How Can You Title Longing?”The Louisville Review
+ “It’s Not Your Hat,” Vestal Review
+ “Arm, Clean Off,” Glimmer Train
+ “While Doing My Hand-Washables on Wednesday,” Snake Nation Review
+ “Everything
’
s Lighter in Water,” New South

 
selected poetry

+ “and Mister George Eastman once told me to embrace light, admire it, love it,” forthcoming in Hypertext Review
+ “Sing Away, My Sister,” JMWW Journal
+ “Love Is a Graveyard for the Lonely,” Occulum
+ “Lesson Plan,” Humans in the Wild: Reactions to a Gun-Loving Country

+ “Consequences in Water,” Birdcoat Quarterly 
+ “If only I could choose my own country,” Stonecoast Review
+ “Every Body Has Ghosts,” Luna Luna Magazine
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+ “The World Will Blow,” Unbroken Journal
+ “’RSVP’ Is the Collective Noun for Snowy Egrets,” Split Rock Review
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+ “Mother Courage,” Kissing Dynamite
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+ “In the Middle of Nowhere,” Crab Fat Magazine
+ “Dark Knots,” Rogue Agent Journal 
+ “The loon wails this morning,” Half Mystic Journal
+ “The Lives I Save Are Never My Own,” Coal Hill Review
+ “At the Edge of a Stand of Trees by Moonlight,” Occulum
+ “Chyrons Run Through My Head,” 5th Wall
+ “Depending on the Horizon,” Unbroken Journal
+ “Drought,” Barren Magazine
+ “Ghost Light,” Burrow Press
’s Fantastic Floridas
+ “Lopsided,” petrichor: A Journal of Text & Image
+ “More
’s the Pity,” “Cocoon,” and “Deep Wax,” Anti-Heroin Chic
+ “Reckoning,” Into the Void
+ “A Slip Jig and Reel in Cut-Time,” Shenandoah
+ “Inaugural Poem, January 20, 2001,” Crab Orchard Review


 
in anthology

+ “Lesson Plan,” Humans in the Wild: Reactions to a Gun-Loving Country, Swallow Publishing
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+ “I’ll Go Now,” Descansos: Words from the Wayside, Darkhouse Books
+ “Arm, Clean Off,” Flash Fiction International: Very Short Stories from Around the World, Norton


 
selected positions, honors, and awards

+ Prose Poetry Editor, Pithead Chapel
+ Assistant Fiction Editor, Pithead Chapel
+ Chief Editor, The Louisville Review
+ Wigleaf’s Top 50 Very Short Fictions
+ Moon City Press Short Fiction Book Award
+ The Lascaux Book Prize, Finalist
+ Very Short Fiction Prize, Glimmer Train Literary Magazine (second place)
+ Porter Fleming Award in Fiction

+ Porter Fleming Award in Poetry
+ Kentuckiana Award in Poetry

+ The Santa Fe Writer’s Project Book Award (second place)
+ 
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