Current Projects
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I’m currently shopping two full-length works: a Southern Gothic fantastic, or perhaps irreal, novel and a short story collection. Four excerpts of my novel have been published, as outlined below. I write about ugly folks doing ugly things.

 Published
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“I Dream of Jeannie.” PANK Magazine, vol. 12 no. 1, Spring/Summer 2017. Web. Fiction.

“John Wayne Learns He Is a Woman in Barcelona.” The Santa Fe Writers’ Project Quarterly, issue 9, Spring 2017. Web. Fiction.

“Royal.” The Woven Tale Press, vol. 5 no. 3, April 2017. Print & web. Fiction.

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“Today we go to Noah’s Ark.” Black Candies 2016: Gross and Unlikeable, a journal of literary horror, issue featuring work by exclusively women-identified writers. Ed. Natanya Ann Pulley. So Say We All: San Diego, California. Print. Fiction.

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“Alive Daughter.” Profane, 2016 issue, no. 3, Winter 2016. Print, web, & audio. Fiction.

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“Star Stories” [novel excerpt]. JuxtaProse Literary Magazine, vol. 9, Fall 2016. Web.

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“The Second Coming.” Downtown Zen: fiction feature, September 2016. Print & web.

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“Oppositional Thumb (After Lu Xun).” The Collapsar, January 2016. Web. Fiction.

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“How to Love a Thief.” HOLD: a journal, “Magic,” issue 1, October 2015. Print. Fiction.

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“Karaoke.” silo: the College of Southern Idaho’s Literary Journal, 2015 issue, August 2015. Web. Fiction.

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“Chimp.” Tahoma Literary Review, vol. 1 issue 2, December 2014. Print, web, & audio. Fiction.

Digital reading of “Chimp.”

“The Grotesque, the Gothic, and the Places Where those Points Intersect.” Tahoma Literary Review blog, February 2015. Web. Nonfiction.

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“Of Mothers & Mountain“ [novel excerpt]. Canyon Voices: Journal for Emerging Writers & Artists, issue 10, November 2014. Web. Fiction.

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“Still Writing About Grief.”  The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review, October 2014. Web. Fiction.

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“Coronation of Mrs. Presley.” Soundings Review, Spring/Summer issue, 2014. Print. Creative nonfiction.

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See & Be Seen & Be Scene. Winner: 2nd annual e-chapbook contest, fiction. Five [Quarterly], June 2014. Web.

KNPR, the Las Vegas NPR affiliate, July 2014 interview on See & Be Seen & Be Scene.

Speaking of Marvels November 2015 interview on See & Be Seen & Be Scene.

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 “When The Animals Turned on You” [adapted novel excerpt]. Gesture Literary Journal, “Monsters” issue, February 2014. Web.

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“Love Letter to Lady Lazarus” [adapted novel excerpt]. Five [Quarterly],  winter issue, January 2014. Web.

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“in an effort to resist leaving every piece ‘untitled’.” Gravel Magazine, December 2013. Web.  Creative nonfiction.

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“Stroll.” The Battered Suitcase Literary Journal, vol. 4, issue 1, May 2011. Print. Fiction.

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“haunting.” Analecta: the Literary & Arts Journal of the University of Texas, vol. 27, May 2011. Print. Creative nonfiction.

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“Notes Upon the Topography of Scar Tissue.” Agnes Scott College Writers’ Festival Magazine, March 2010. Print. Creative nonfiction.