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Publications

Books:

2019 Lived in Bars |Stubborn Mule Press
Hybrid prose & poetry full-length collection

2019 Roots Grew Wild |Kingdoms in the Wild Press
Poetry chapbook; Winner: 2018 KITW Poetry Prize

Poetry and Prose:

Creative Nonfiction

2022 “Pineapple Shakes” | Pioneertown

2021 “Dinner and a Movie, or How to Not to Feel Poor for One Night” |  Sky Island Journal

2021 “1-800-COMEPICKMEUPMOM” | Canned

2021 “To the Stars” | Under the Gum Tree

2020 “Something About Perspective” | The Manifest Station
Cross-genre / Creative Prose

2019 “Drew Barrymore Was Everything, and Then She Was Stabbed Three Times and Hanged From a Tree” |Drunk Monkeys 
Creative Nonfiction 

2019 “Aversion” |Mom Egg Review
Cross-genre / Creative Prose

2018 “The Funeral” |Crab Fat Magazine
CNF flash, anthologized in “Best of 2018”

Short Fiction:

2019 “The Mission Inn” |Fiction Southeast
Flash fiction 

The Story Behind the Story: Behind “The Mission Inn”

2019 “The Bum Steer” |Abstract Magazine
Flash fiction

2018 “Reflections While Driving on the New Jersey Turnpike” |The Esthetic Apostle
Flash fiction 

2018 “Muted” |(mac)ro(mic)
Flash fiction

2018 “Roots” |Flash Fiction Magazine
Flash fiction 

2018 “A Love Letter to Buffy Summers” FreezeRay
Flash fiction

2018 “The One and Only” |Lou Lit Magazine
Short fiction

2018 “Oenaville, Texas” |Toasted Cheese 
Flash fiction 

2006   “Anatomy of a Car Crash”| Synecdoche 
Short fiction 

Poetry:

2022 “Pandemic Growth Chart” | Train River (forthcoming in special COVID Anthology)

2021  “Creationism Theory;” “Curling Iron Anecdote;” “Everyone is a Sex Trafficker” | Cathexis Northwest Press

2021 “To my daughters, as two lost souls on the sinking Titanic, third party witnesses to the love saga and imminent death of Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bukater” | High Shelf Press

2021 “This house” | Great Weather For Media 

2020 “There’s This Particular Way My Mother Cooks” | South Broadway Ghost Society (printed in the Thought For Food Anthology benefiting Denver Food Rescue)

2020 “To the Body That No Longer Feels Sexual” |Suspect Press

2018 “Souvenir,” “Trestling” |Soft Cartel 

2018 “Lou Ella” |K’in

2018 “World,” “On the Border” |The Cerurove

2018 “Nostalgia for Future Tense” |The Pangolin Review

2018 “Skinless,” “Leathered” |Rag Queen Periodical

2018 “It’s Jazz Night” |COUNTERCLOCK
*Nominated: Best of the Net

2018   “Mermaid Fins” | Literary Mama

2017    “Six Days of Waiting” |Mothers Always Write 

2017   “Your Mother’s Womb” |Rat’s Ass Review 
*Nominated: Best of the Net

2017   “Arduous Vessels” |So to Speak 

2016   “Linger” |Shark Reef 

2015   “But We All Lost our Virginities in the Orange Groves” |Rat’s Ass Review 

2014   “Because I Say I Hate the Ocean, Except When I’m Alone” |Split Lip Magazine 

2007   “Buffer” |Synecdoche 

Essays and Articles:

2021 “Elegy for my magical milk-producing breasts” | Mutha Magazine

2020 “VHS Horror Culture: Scream as the Ultimate Millennial Hangout Movie” | Bright Wall/Dark Room
Creative Film Analysis 

2020 “I Loved Breastfeeding My Child—Until I Didn’t” | Motherly
Personal essay 

2020 “One Perfect Episode: Dead Man’s Party” | Drunk Monkeys 
Creative Film Analysis 

2015   “A Review of Susan Lewis’ How to be Another” | The Compulsive Reader
Book review 

2007   “I [deconstruct] Huckabees” |Synecdoche 
Critical essay

Papers in Progress:

“Monstrous Masculinity: Defining the Gothic Origins of Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s Toxic Male Tropes” | Ongoing research 

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