Selected nonfiction

Lit Hub: “There Is No Time For Mom Guilt” February 6, 2026.

Superstition Review: “Ouija Board: What We Ask of the Dead” Winter 2022, Online.

The Champagne Room: “Frankenstein’s Mother” Spring, 2022, Print.

Coal Hill Review: An excerpt from The War Requiem Winter 2020, Online.

Brevity’s Nonfiction Blog: “On Loving People I’ve Never Met” February 2020, Online.

The Briar Cliff Review: “Heavy Blessings” Spring 2015, Print.

AWP Intro Journals Project nominee for the essay “The Tulip Bulb Eaters” Fall 2013. Nominated by Benjamin Percy.

Selected fiction

Instagram: “Phantom Ranch” Fall 2021.

A short story written with audience input over the course of October 2021. Each week leading up to Halloween, I released an installment of this horror story based on responses from questions I asked via “Story Polls.” I wanted to create a piece of art that welcomed others who many not necessarily consider themselves artists or writers into the process of creation.

The Drum: “Next Life” Issue 74, Winter 2019. 

Watershed Review: “Encounters” Fall 2018, Online.

Barely South Review: “The Deluded” Fall 2018, Print and Online.

Pleiades: “Dead Woman’s Pass” Summer 2017, Print. Featured as a New Literary Discovery with Introduction by novelist Benjamin Percy.

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