Publications

Novels

  • Ignore the Dead (2023)
  • APNEA: a novel of the future (2023)

Short Fiction Collections

Chapbooks / Collections

Poetry

  • The origin of water - Zephyrus and Nostrovia Poetry
  • Two poems - Zephryus

2012

  • Between Kansas and Oz - Red River Review
  • Two Poems - Toad le Journal
  • Two Poems - Apercus Quarterly
  • My mother's deja vu time machine - Waterhouse Review
  • Two Poems - Transient
  • The fact of abstract absence - Big River Poetry Review
  • Florida vacation - Bicycle Review
  • Content - Turbulence
  • Three Poems - Wilderness House Literary Review
  • Oblivious deity - Emerge Literary Journal
  • Love replaced with a curse word - La Reata Review
  • Self loathing - siren
  • Three poems - cur.ren.cy
  • Adult film actress - Wild Goose Poetry Review
  • Five poems - Beyond the Dark Room anthology
  • Three poems - Prompted anthology

2013

  • Reflection in the grass - Words Dance
  • Empty nest - Big River Poetry Review
  • America is - Electric Windmill Press
  • Eight poems - Thirteen Myna Birds
  • Two Poems - Black Heart Magazine
  • Six Poems - Unlikely Stories
  • Narcissism born - ExFic
  • High blood pressure - Houston & Nomadic Voices
  • Isolationism - siren
  • Never - Camel Saloon
  • Scapegoating the pauses - Red Fez
  • What is seen is felt - Bay Laurel
  • Two Poems - Cease, Cows
  • First Responders - Spry
  • My New Bed - Aryis Online
  • Seventeen - Words Dance
  • Five Poems - Tongue UK
  • If I were a Latino cliche - DASH
  • How not to read poetry - Red River Review
  • Summer and Fall Magic - Emerge Literary Journal
  • Kentucky imaginings - OVS Magazine
  • disconnect - Poets/Artists
  • Awakening - Gloom Cupboard

2014

  • Five Poems - Menacing Hedge
  • Heart Strings - Lyre, Lyre
  • Noir, or imitating Tom Waits - Lunch Ticket
  • Imitating Bob Dylan - Prick of the Spindle
  • Two poems - Skinning Honesty anthology
  • Dealing with grief - Mother is a Verb anthology
  • Two poems - Negative Suck
  • How we are like crabs - Up the Staircase Quarterly
  • Sneezing while driving - The Blue Hour
  • Two poems - Red River Review
  • Seven poems - Thirteen Myna Birds
  • Sorry - Luciferous
  • Three poems - Stanzamonkey
  • Job interview - Scissors and Spackle
  • Autumn prayer - Still: The Journal
  • Trigger Warning - Black Heart Magazine
  • Four poems, featured author - ExFic
  • Two poems - Thirteen Myna Birds
  • make believe sonnet - Driftwood Press
  • mother - Montucky Review
  • How to remove a hazmat suit - Rattle Magazine
  • Three poems - Revolution John
  • Two poems - Words Dance

2015

  • Two poems - Melancholy Hyperbole
  • Four poems - Eunoia Review
  • lethologica - Redheaded Stepchild
  • In the veins of the Earth - The Lake
  • Disco ver(ses) in the key of American Hustle - Change Seven Magazine
  • Use me instead - New Verse News
  • A man burned alive... - New Verse News
  • Five poems - Revolution John
  • Six poems - Boston Poetry Magazine
  • Five poems - Novel Masters
  • Alabama attempts to stand still - New Verse News
  • Six months without sex - Cultured Vultures
  • Two poems - The Ofi Press
  • Two poems - Lyre Lyre
  • Five poems - Snapping Twig
  • Two poems - Black Heart Magazine
  • Two poems - Arsenic Lobster
  • Guilt - Philadelphia Review of Books
  • Five poems - FRiGG
  • Dear Stepfather - Mas Tequila Review
  • Reduce reuse recycle - Entropy/Enclave
  • Chalk outlines of a future self - Vending Machine Press
  • Two poems - Yellow Chair Review
  • Five syllables - Silver Birch Press
  • Tupelo Press 30/30 Challenge
  • Nashville, Tn - Calliope Magazine
  • Hunting season - New Verse News
  • Art made from ashes - Crab Fat Magazine / Christoph Paul
  • SCOWL - Revolution John
  • Featured poet - Calliope Magazine September 2015
  • Live Man Dead Man - EXPOUND
  • Triadelphia, WV - Fried Chicken and Coffee
  • Hope is a thing with blasters - Crab Orchard Review
  • My metaphors - Right Hand Pointing
  • Susurrus - McNeese Review
  • What war is good for - TruthDig
  • If the sun was a yellow t-shirt - Uut Poetry
  • A poet dies - Verse-Virtual
  • suicidal dreams - Uut Poetry

2016

  • I killed the child - New Verse News
  • 3 poems - Unlikely Stories
  • Proof is in the pudding - Uut Poetry
  • Ode to Justice Antonin Scalia - New Verse News
  • Think of an eclipse - Rat's Ass Review
  • Three poems - Indiana Voice Journal
  • Five poems - Eunoia Review
  • A litany - Five2One Magazine
  • Gun of a bitch - Rattle
  • Grave robbing a life - Blue Fifth Review
  • Three poems - In Between Hangovers
  • Methamphetamine - Live Nude Poems
  • Five poems - Scarlet Leaf Review
  • How to know if God exists - Jabberwock Review (finalist for Editor prize)
  • The bloodied boy and the games - New Verse News
  • Two poems - Your One Phone Call
  • Dakota - New Verse News
  • Two poems - Prick of the Spindle print issue
  • Four Houses Down - Dissident Voice
  • Tomorrow's anchor - Verse-Virtual
  • Disparities - Verse-Virtual
  • Two poems - Transcendent Zero
  • Four poems - Loch Raven Review

2017

  • State of emergency - The Crafty Poet II
  • A Precious Life - Praxis

2018

  • Five Poems - Change Seven
  • Four poems - PoeTree
  • Three poems - Lost River Magazine

2021

Fiction

  • The Amputee - The Horror Zine                                                         
  • Elm Shadow Lane - Ares Magazine
  • The Filibuster - Sante Fe Writer's Project
  • A World for the Birds - Piker Press
  • The Antique - Scholars and Rogues
  • Conversations in the Future - Piker Press
  • Psoriasis - The Round-Up Zine
  • Terrorist - Horror, Sleaze, Trash
  • The Voice and the Pain - Fantastic Horror vol. 4
  • The Portrait with the Lazy Eye - No Rest for the Wicked anthology
  • Asphyxiation - Schlock UK

Editorial Credits

Awards

  • Winner: Best Poetry Collection for Canon Fodder, Writer's Digest Writing Award 2023
  • Quarter Finalist for the BookLife Prize: APNEA, fiction, 2023
  • Finalist - 2016 Nancy D. Hargrove Editor Prize in Poetry from Jabberwock Review
  • Nominated Best of the Net 2015 for "Disco Ver(ses) in the key of American Hustle"
  • Second place, Poem of the Week - Cultured Vultures, March 2015
  • Winner - Day 13 of the 2014 April PAD Challenge on Writer's Digest Poetic Asides.
  • Nominated - Best of the Net 2013 for the poem "My Despair Trivialized."
  • Finalist - 2013 Blood Pudding Chapbook Contest for There's No Place Like Hell.
  • Finalist - 2006 Goldenrod Poetry Contest at Western Kentucky University for "The Origin of Water."

Interviews