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

+ “Relocation.” Glossy Planet. (Second-place finalist for “A House Divided” challenge)
+ “Escape Route.” Smokelong Quarterly. Forthcoming.
+ “Diva.” Oxford Flash Fiction Prize (second place).
+ “Water Witching.” trampset.
+ “Dead Letter Orchard.” hex literary. Forthcoming.
+ “Christmas (the Town, not the Holiday).” Occulum.
+ “Having Weight.” The Disappointed Housewife. (Nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
+ “Conductor.” Flash Frog.
+ “The Only Thing in the Air.” BULL.
+ “In the Best Way.” BULL.
+ “Cherry Bomb.” TSS Publishing.
+ “The Neighbor’s Left Ear.” Moon City Review. Forthcoming.
+ “Come to Stay.” Moon City Review. Forthcoming.
+ “The Fox.” FlashFlood.
+ “Bright, Stubborn Things.” The National Flash Fiction Day Write-In, 2025.
+ “Claude.” The National Flash Fiction Day Write-In, 2025.
+ “Pressing Clouds.” The National Flash Fiction Day Write-In, 2025.
+ “Scattering.” The National Flash Fiction Day Write-In, 2025.
+ “The Deepest Part.” The National Flash Fiction Day Write-In, 2025.
+ “and Mister George Eastman once told me to embrace light, admire it, love it.” Hypertext Magazine.
+ “Lookers.” Hypertext Magazine.
+ “Last Days of Men.” Phoebe: A Journal of Literature and Art.
+ “Making It.” Okay Donkey.
+ “Unrhymed Sonnet Constructed with American Sentences.” Crack the Spine.
+ “Poppies.” Riggwelter.
+ “Love Is a Graveyard for the Lonely.” Occulum.
+ “Heretic.” Tahoma Literary Review. Print only.
+ “Reservoir.” Atticus Review.
+ “The World Will Blow.” Unbroken Journal.
+ “Four Out of Five Dentists Agree.” Ellipsis Zine, Four: The Whisper Place.
+ “Depending on the Horizon.” Unbroken Journal.
+ “Flag Guy.” Iron Horse Literary Review, Newsflash.
+ “Routine Cleaning.” Heavy Feather Review.
+ “Never Salute a Bare Head.” Derelict Lit.
+ “His Favorites.” Bull & Cross.
+ “Let Go.” Moon City Review. Print only.
+ “Come to Me.” TANK Magazine. Print only.
+ “How Can You Title Longing?” The Louisville Review. Print only.
+ “Everything’s Lighter in Water.” The Louisville Review. Print only.
+ “It’s Not Your Hat.” Vestal Review.
+ “Arm, Clean Off.” Glimmer Train. Print only.

Selected Poetry

+ “Thanksgiving, Sunset.” Bear Review. Forthcoming.
+ “Return.” North American Review. Print only.
+ “Catechism or Parting Pantoum.” Susurrus. (Nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net Anthology)
+ “Predicament.” Susurrus.
+ “Hunters & Collectors.” Stone Poetry Journal.
+ “Leaves Aim Toward Thunder.” Stone Poetry Journal.
+ “Spooky Little Things.” Stone Poetry Journal.
+ “Things I Never Said.” Stone Poetry Journal.
+ “For My Mother, Who Is Dead, But Spent Too Long Dying.” Long River Review. Print only.
+ “The Sympathy of Clocks.” (“The Ship Navigator’s Wife Tries Patience” and “Dear Iona”). Five South.
+ “Fold the Shadows.” Chestnut Review.
+ “Resurface.” Birdcoat Quarterly.
+ “Ineffable.” Little Patuxent Review.
+ “Psycho.” Rogue Agent.
+ “In Margherita’s Kingdom.” Third Wednesday.
+ “Falling Is the Deadest Thing.” Citron Review.
+ “Cuts.” Citron Review.
+ “Disguise.” Freedom/Rapture, Black Bough Poetry. Print only.
+ “Ghazal for a Dispirited Place.” Small Orange.
+ “Sing Away, My Sister.” JMWW (also included in the JMMW: A Modern Times Anthology)
+ “Love Is a Graveyard for the Lonely.” Occulum.
+ “Consequences in Water.” Birdcoat Quarterly.
+ “If only I could choose my own country.” Stonecoast Review.
+ “Every Body Has Ghosts.” Luna Luna Magazine.
+ “RSVP Is the Collective Noun for Snowy Egrets.” Split Rock Review.
+ “Mother Courage.” Kissing Dynamite.
+ “The loon wails.” Half Mystic Journal. Print only.
+ “The Lives I Save Are Never My Own.” Coal Hill Review.
+ “In the Middle of Nowhere.” Crab Fat Magazine.
+ “Dark Knots.” Rogue Agent.
+ “Cocoon.” Anti-Heroin Chic.
+ “Deep Wax.” Anti-Heroin Chic.
+ “More’s the Pity.” Anti-Heroin Chic.
+ “Chyrons Run Through My Head.” 5th Wall.
+ “Lopsided.” petrichor: A Journal of Text & Image.
+ “Drought.” Barren Magazine.
+ “At the Edge of a Stand of Trees by Moonlight.” Occulum.
+ “Reckoning.” Into the Void.
+ “Ghost Light.” Burrow Press Review.
+ “A Slip Jig and Reel in Cut-Time.” Shenandoah. (Winner of the Kentuckiana Prize).
+ “Inaugural Poem, January 20, 2001.” Crab Orchard Review.

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

+ Driftwood Press Editor’s Pick Poetry Prize
+ Wandering Aengus Book Award, Finalist, 2021 & 2023
+ Wigleaf’s Top 50 Very Short Fictions
+ Gold Wake Press Novel Award
+ Moon City Press Short Fiction Book Award
+ Pushcart Nominations in Poetry and Fiction, 2015–22
+ The Lascaux Book Prize, Finalist
+ Very Short Fiction Prize, Glimmer Train (second)
+ Porter Fleming Award in Fiction
+ Porter Fleming Award in Poetry
+ Kentuckiana Award in Poetry
+ The Santa Fe Writer’s Project (SFWP) Book Award (second)

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