Finalist, 2025 Rash Award in Fiction
Co-winner, 2014 Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize

Forthcoming or recent:
Another Day for the Monkeys (short story): Litmosphere (Spring 2026)
Outback (short story): Ivo Review (2026)
Memento (flash): shoegaze literary (2026)
Pool (short story): The Main Street Rag (2026)
Dive (short story): Ariel Chart (2025)
The Once and Future: Tense in Narrative Form (essay): Black Herald Press (Fall 2025)
Julian in the Desert (short story): finalist, 2025 Rash Award in Fiction, Broad River Review, Volume 57 (Fall 2025)

A while ago:
Penelope’s Retort (poem): Making Waves: A Western Michigan Review (Fall 2025)
You (short story): Kaleidoscope, issue 91 (July 2025)
Cunt (poem): Thimble Literary Magazine, issue 8.1 (Summer 2025)
Dancing for Harry (short story): Solstice Literary Magazine (April 2025)
How To See (poem): The Ekphrastic Review (April 2025)
Flasher excerpt: 2025 Seven Hills Review (first place for YA novel excerpt, Seven Hills Contest, 2024)
Swan Lake (short story): Rivanna Review, issue 14 (December 2024)
Elijah’s Violin (libretto for children’s opera, with composer Meira Warshauer): first performances in Wilmington, NC, (2018) and San Francisco (2019)
Penelope’s Side of the Story (poem): finalist, Faulkner-Wisdom Writing Competition, 2018
Dark Matter (poem): Bacopa Literary Review, 2018
Summer Gospel (Float) (poem): Poetry on the Comet, the City of Columbia, 2016
Faulkner-Wisdom Writing Competition: finalist (short story) and short list (poetry), 2016
Sic Transit (poem): Poetry on the Comet: a project of the poet laureate of the City of Columbia, 2015
Pentimento (poem): The Collective I chapbook
Doxology (poem): part of the 2015 Columbia Broadside Project, with artist Christian Thee
A Still Life (short story): The Thomas Wolfe Review, Volume 38, Numbers 1 & 2
Thank You for Your Contribution … And Your Check, with Flavian Mark Lupinetti: In Cahoots Contest (2014) honorable mention, cahoodaloodaling.com
Script Lit eBooks (novella): ghostwriter
In Taiwan (poem): Best of Black Heart 2013 anthology
Botany (poem): Bayou Magazine 61
From Some Room (poem): RiverLit, March 2014
Still Life with Frogs (short story): Southern California Review
Memoriam, That Evening, and Catalogue (poems): Literary Matters 6.4 (Oxford University Press)
Lupine Moon (poem): the Columbia Broadside Project and chapbook, with artist Sammy Lopez
White Noise (poem): Four Chambers, December 2013
Another Day for the Monkeys (short story): 2013 Porter Fleming Literary Competition, first place in fiction
Epsilon (poem): 2013 Faulkner-Wisdom Writing Competition short list and 2013 Porter Fleming honorable mention
You Are Ordered To Appear (flash): RiverLit, August 2013
Catalogue (poem): The Moth, summer 2013
Simon of the Desert (short story): The Monarch Review, November 2011; basis for the short film Grace, spring 2013
Flasher (YA novel): finalist, 2012 Faulkner-Wisdom Writing Competition
Pool (short story): Best Fiction, 2012
Blue Boy (short story): Fogged Clarity, June 2009

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