Creative Writing

I love to read. Usually multiple books at once, usually a whole stack. Books have been among my best teachers, a steady spring of enrichment and joy.

Novels

I am currently editing and seeking representation for three novels:

• “Swim the River, Girls” about the young women who survived Washington’s Green River Killer by banding together to demand better than Seattle was prepared to give them
• “The Belgrade Docent” about a volunteer docent steering through a recent move and disorienting relationship with her girlfriend by responding to the art and artifacts of Belgrade’s National Museum
• “The Clut,” about a woman who bucks start-up culture to found her own cult an in effort to explore companionship and a sense of power

Short Stories

• We Did Not Expect Four Legs, | Arkansas Review, 2021
• Ararat Tiny Houseboats | Conjunctions, 2020
• Katabasis | storySouth, 2020
• Jack This Car | Washington Square Review | 2020
• The Whale Did Not Seem to Be a Warning | Columbia Review, 2020
• Ornaments Tinkle in an Icicle Wind | Funicular Magazine, 2020
• Overmatch by Pizza | Brilliant Flash Fiction, 2020
• The Boys, The Black, The Flutter | Event, 2019
• When the Moon Couldn’t Cork a Barrel |The Fourth River, 2019
• It Is Possible to Give a Vulture Too Large a Task | Image, 2018
• The Intermezzo |Arkansas Review, 2017
• Justin | Harvard Review, 2010
• Swamp Tide | Arkansas Review, 2008
• A Handful of Women | The Michigan Quarterly Review, 2007
• Tireless on the Way of Cain | The Oleander Review, 2007
• Lewis and Clark, Bryce and Tony | Barcelona Review, 2005

Essays

• The Ribs That March Forward Through the Skin | New Mexico Review, 2016
• Why I stopped dating the cop: Colin Kaepernick’s protest, the “liberal media,” and the bunker mentality of police culture | Salon, 2016
• The Paris of the West | The Account, 2014
• Teaching Punishment | The Oleander Review, 2007

Poetry

• ‘Yesterday’ is the most covered song in the world | Sheepshead Review, 2021
• Traveling in slow pieces from the North | Red Rock Review, 2021
• A curved blue-veined space full of water and silence | Rappahannock Review, 2021
• Nostalgia is more of a problem than mourning | Little Patuxent Review, 2021
• A pinata of reproductive organs | Connecticut River Review, 2021
• You pile sweet jam; I’ll admit it even if doesn’t fix anything | After the Pause, 2021
• At least I have a brown arm | Inflectionist, 2021
• Agnostic Wandering, and Old Spice & Cordite | Blackbird, 2019
• We Both Like to Stick Our Heads In; Everything Pointed South; Put Your Will In Your Boots | Mojave River Review, 2018
• Reach Out <hard stop> | West Trade Review, 2018
• Something Like This Every Night, Sediments Literary-Arts Journal, 2016
• Watchtower | DIAGRAM, 2007
• The Honky-Tonk Blues Bar | Blackbird, 2007
• Bandita, Stirring | 2006
• Seedpods ‘Longside Flowers | Beloit Journal of Poetry, 2006