“All I know is what the words know.”

—Samuel Beckett, in Molloy

Books

Out Of Season

Stories. Winner of the Elixir Press Fiction Award.

“Pure pleasure from a uniquely gifted writer”

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Songbox

Poems. Winner of the Trio House Press Trio Award.

“These are poems to return to again and again.”

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The Early Word

Poems. From the legendary Burning Deck press.

“The language is always exact…with the intensity of a high powered lens.”

Unsolved Crimes

True Crime. Published in six editions in the US and UK.

“I knew I was in the hands of a master of narrative.”

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Poetry

“Gifts”—Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day

“Quarantine”—Thirty Poems in Thirty Days anthology

Poetry Reading (Seventeen Poems)—Voetica

Two Poems from “Trigger Warning: Time”—The Texas Observer

Poems from “Trigger Warning: Time”—The Banyan Review (Pushcart Prize Nominee)

“Chanson d’Amour”—Mudfish (Finalist, Poetry Prize)

“Next” and “Joe is Awake”—The 64 Best Poets of 2018 anthology

“White Herons” and “The Periodic Table”—The Woven Tale

“Rules for Objects”—Eclipse

“The Periodic Table”—Soundings East

“Deus ex Machina”—Confrontation

“Seven Poems”—The Langdon Review

“Naming Andromeda”—Folly

“White Herons”—Southern Indiana Review

“Prophecy and Families—Nycticorax

“Carpe Diem”—Aileron

“Three Poems”—Crowdancing

“Six Poems”—Riata

Fiction

“Gravity”—New England Review

“Tapioca”—Story

“Banquo’s Ghost”—New England Review

“The Apocalypse, with Breath Mints”—The Idaho Review

“The Goat’s Eye”—This Side of the Divide anthology

“Smash and Grab”—Valparaiso Fiction Review

“The Goat’s Eye”—Meridian

“The Coldest Day”—Midway Journal

“The Story You’ve Never Heard About Lattorial”—The New Guard (Finalist, Machigonne Award)

“The Heart of Things”—The Wordstock 10 anthology

Nonfiction

“Scenarium”--Conjunctions

“Skin the Bunny”—Florida Review (Editors’ Award for Nonfiction)

“Secrets of Kirby Hall”—Crazyhorse

“A Brief and Necessary Madness”—River Teeth (Pushcart Prize Nominee)

“A Brief and Necessary Madness”—New Millennium (Nonfiction Prize)

“A Brief and Necessary Madness”—National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship