Shorter Works

Shorter Works

“The competition has grown fierce for fiction writers who regularly publish in the literary magazines—writers like Ingrid Hill, Chris Offutt, Steve Almond, R.T. Smith, Michael Knight, Jane Shippen, Bret Anthony Johnston, Annette Sanford, George Singleton, K.A. Longstreet, Aaron Gwyn, Brad Vice, Tayari Jones, Brock Clark, Cate McGowan.”—Shannon Ravenel, Five Points

Selected Prose

+ “Escape Route.” Smokelong Quarterly. Forthcoming.
+ “Diva.” Oxford Flash Fiction Prize (Second Place).
+ “Relocation.” Glossy Planet (“A House Divided” Challenge, Second Place),
+ “Dead Letter Orchard.” hex literary. Forthcoming.
+ “The Neighbor’s Left Ear.” Moon City Review. Forthcoming.
+ “Come to Stay.” Moon City Review. Forthcoming.
+ “Water Witching.” trampset.
+ “Having Weight.” The Disappointed Housewife (Nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best Small Fictions 2026).
+ “The Only Thing in the Air.” BULL.
+ “In the Best Way.” BULL.
+ “Christmas (the Town, not the Holiday).” Occulum.
+ “Lookers.” Hypertext Magazine.
+ “and Mister George Eastman once told me to embrace light, admire it, love it.” Hypertext Magazine.
+ “Conductor.” Flash Frog.
+ “Cherry Bomb.” TSS Publishing.
+ “Reservoir.” Atticus Review (Wigleaf’s Top 50 Very Short Fictions).
+ “Heretic.” Tahoma Literary Review. Print only.
+ “Last Days of Men.” Phoebe: A Journal of Literature and Art.
+ “It’s Not Your Hat.” Vestal Review.
+ “Arm, Clean Off.” Glimmer Train (Very Short Fiction Award, Second Place). Print only.

Additional ficion appears in other literary journals.

Selected Poetry

+ “Thanksgiving, Sunset.” Bear Review.
+ “Return.” North American Review. Print only.
+ “Catechism or Parting Pantoum.” Susurrus (Nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net Anthology).
+ “Predicament.”Susurrus.
+ “Fold the Shadows.” Chestnut Review.
+ “RSVP Is the Collective Noun for Snowy Egrets.” Split Rock Review.
+ “The Lives I Save Are Never My Own.” Coal Hill Review.
+ “Sing Away, My Sister.” JMWW (also included in the JMMW: A Modern Times Anthology)
+ “Falling Is the Deadest Thing.” Citron Review.
+ “Cuts.” Citron Review (Nominated for a Pushcart Prize).
+ “If only I could choose my own country.” Stonecoast Review.
+ “Resurface.” Birdcoat Quarterly.
+ “Ghazal for a Dispirited Place.” Small Orange.
+ “The Sympathy of Clocks.” (“The Ship Navigator’s Wife Tries Patience” and “Dear Iona”). Five South.
+ “A Slip Jig and Reel in Cut-Time.” Shenandoah.
+ “Inaugural Poem, January 20, 2001.” Crab Orchard Review.

Additional poems appear in other literary journals.

Selected Anthologized Work

+ “Sing Away, My Sister.” JMWW: A Modern Times Anthology, 2023.
+ “Lesson Plan.” Humans in the Wild: Reactions to a Gun-Loving Country, 2020, Swallow Publishing.
+ “I’ll Go Now.” Descansos: Words from the Wayside, 2017, Darkhouse Books.
+ “Arm, Clean Off.” [Abridged.] Flash Fiction International: Very Short Stories from Around the World, 2015, W. W. Norton & Company.

Selected Honors

+ Best Small Fictions Nomination (2026)
+ Pushcart Nominations in Poetry and Fiction (2015–2026)
+ Driftwood Press Editor’s Pick Poetry Prize
+ Gold Wake Press Novel Award
+ Moon City Press Short Fiction Book Award
+ Santa Fe Writer’s Project (SFWP) Book Award (Second Place)
+ Wandering Aengus Book Award, Finalist (2021, 2023)
+ Lascaux Book Prize, Finalist
+ Wigleaf’s Top 50 Very Short Fictions
+ Very Short Fiction Prize, Glimmer Train (Second Place)
+ Porter Fleming Award in Fiction
+ Porter Fleming Award in Poetry
+ Kentuckiana Award in Poetry

Artwork: Cloud Study: Stormy Sunset (1821-1822), John Constable, National Gallery or Art.