Book-Length Work:
Raising Panic, novel. (from Steel Toe Books) Winner of Steel Toe Books 2023’s Prose Prize (November 2024). You can read about the book by clicking here. You can order the book here.
Raising Panic also won recognition as a PenCraft 2025 Book Award Runner Up more here
Peer-Reviewed Fiction, Poetry, and Prose:
“The Ritual of Smoking” essay, Beltway: An Anthology of Writers of the Washington, DC Metro Area. (Coming February 2026) more here
“Before the Death of Sappho,” poetry, The Ekphrastic Review (August 2025), READ
“Give Me Your Keys,” essay, Breath & Smoke, Ability Maine, Spring 2025 (June 2025) order here, read here
“Diorama Family,” Flash Fiction, Barely South Review, Issue 16.2 (March 2025) read here
“A House Named Porches,” poetry, Maryland Bard‘s Poetry Review 2025 (February 2025) order here
“I Forgot Running,” essay, Winner of the BSR Nonfiction Contest, Barely South Review pre-issue Winter (November 2024) read here
“Skin, Smoke, Stars,” short memoir, AmLit (November 2024) read here
“Grand Tetons,” “Yachts On Fire,” and “No Secrets,” poems in Art Book Anthology by Chestnut Review (November 2024)
“Old Bay,” short story in an anthology Ole’ Blue Claw: Tales from the Crustier Side of Maryland. (coming 2025)
“Your Feet,” and “Nobody Could,” poems in Grey Hands, Vol. 3, Spring (March 2024) Read Here
“A Tiny Life,” poem, Maryland Bard‘s Poetry Review 2024 (Feb 2024) Order Here
“The Tree That Reminds Me,” essay, Kaleidoscope Magazine (January 2024) Read Here
“Kool-Aid Mouth,” “His Care,” poetry, Wishbone Words (November 2023)
“Modern Messiah,” poetry, Dead Girl Erased: anthology of erasure, Gnashing Teeth Publishing, (Fall 2023 Order Here
“Sudden Silence,” short fiction, Roy Fainteant Press (July 2023) Read Here
“Shared Pairs,” fiction, Pink Panther Magazine, Vol 14, Number 1 (March 2023) Order Here
“From the Corner,” short story, Devil’s Party Press, Gravelight Press, anthology Halloween 2023 (Fall 2023) Order Here
“Mosh Pit,” essay, Quarter(ly) Press, anthology Burn This Fucker Down. (March, 2023) Order Here
“Unnamed Essay,” essay, House Journal Literary Magazine (forthcoming Winter 2023)
“Brick and Mortar,” poetry, Meow Meow Pow Pow (January, 2023) Read Here
“I Remember Running,” memoir excerpt, Aethlon: the journal of sports literature (Spring 2022) Order Here
“Grand Torino,” essay, Red Fez (May 2022) Read Here
“To The Poet I,” poetry, Maryland Bard’s Poetry Review 2022, Local Gems Press (Spring 2022)
“First Light Over Molokai,” poetry, Paradise Journal from Poet’s Choice (Spring, 2022)
“Always, I Smile,” short story, Lavender Bones Magazine (December 2021) Read Here
“For Crying,” essay, Hash Journal (September 2021) Read Here
Raising Panic” novel manuscript, long-listed, Petrichor Prize Regal House (September 2021) More here
“Their Warmth,” short fiction, Santa Fe Writers Project (July 2021) Read Here
“Imaginary Fear,” memoir excerpt and essay, The Under Review (June 2021) Read here
“The Gravity of Adrianne Lane,” short story, Winner 2021 Fiction, Please See Me (April 2021) Read here
“Renaming Panic,” novel manuscript, Semi-finalist in Hidden River Arts, Eludia Award for an unpublished book (January 2021) Information Here
“The Ritual of Smoking,” essay, Winner of the 2020 Dogwood Literary Award in Nonfiction, Dogwood, a Journal of Poetry and Prose, Volume 19 (2020) Information Here
“Renaming Panic,” novel excerpt, Townsend Journal, Volume 2 (May 2020) Purchase Here
“Coffee To Go,” essay, American Writer’s Review, Special COVID-19 Anthology (Summer 2020)
“VW Roadtrip,” poem, Ephimiliar Journal (October 2019) Read Here
“They Butterfly,” short story, Briar’s Lit Anthology, Volume 2 (January 2019) Read Here
“One Earnest Prayer,” micro-essay, Brevity, One Minute Memoir (September 2018) Listen Here
“Hope That Comes,” essay, Not Your Mother’s Breast Milk (September 2018) Read Here
“August 29, 2008,” essay, Past Ten (August 2018) Read Here
“Blue Venus,” short story, Jerry Jazz Musician, finalist (August 2018) Read Here
“The Flat of Her Back,” short story, Scarlet Leaf Review (May 2018) Read Here
“Submittable Frenzy,” poem, Submittable-Centric contest (April 2018) Read Here
“Ignorance Is,” short story, Ink Stains Anthology (vol. 7, 2018). Order Here
“Dead Old Man,” short story, Crow Pie (vol. 1, 2017). https://www.eatcrowpie.com/ (defunct)
“Acro Circus,” short story, Icarus Down Review (April 2016). https://icarusdownreview.com/ (defunct)
“His Name,” short story, Acorn Review (vol. 44 2004). Read Here
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