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LITERARY HONORS

“Tied Up With Strings,” Honorable Mention, Iron Soap Blog, 2016. Microfiction.

“Final Projects.” Honorable Mention in 15th annual Lois Cranston Memorial Prize contest (Paulann Petersen, judge), 2016. Poetry.

“Mary McCue.” (villanelle) Second Place in Betty Fukuyama Traditional Poetry, Junior-level, Washington Poet’s Association Contest (Susan Moon, judge), 2002. Poetry.

PUBLICATIONS

Creative Nonfiction

“Liminality.” Borderlands at Millikin, forthcoming.

Chasing Chickens: When Life after Higher Education Doesn’t Go the Way You Planned. UP of Kansas, 2019. 
Also at Amazon (affiliate link) in paperback and Kindle (affiliate link) and Barnes and Noble in paperback and Nook

“Between here and the bed are 1000 steps.” LandEscapes. (2007): 86-89.

Chapbook

The Haywire Heart and Other Musings on Love. Finishing Line Press, 2017.
Signed copies that can be shipped or picked up from wonderful local store White Rabbit Gifts

Anthologized Poems

Erase the Patriarchy! An Anthology of Erasure Poetry. (ed. Isobel O’Hare) University of Hell Press: “Ylla” and “Night Meeting.”
Also at Barnes & Noble and Amazon (affiliate link)

Weaving the Terrain: 100-Word Southwestern Poems (eds. David Meischen and Scott Wiggerman) Dos Gatos Press: “Grand Canyon.”

They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing. (eds. Simone Muench and Dean Rader) Black Lawrence Press: “Lost” (with Grant Holly).

Bearing the Mask: Southwestern Persona Poems (eds. Scott Wiggerman and Cindy Huyser) Dos Gatos Press: “Lonely Town.”

Poems

 “The Reason I Don’t Keep Whiskey in the House” Inlandia, 2021.

“Lawton, Oklahoma” and “Sirens,” JuxtaProse Literary Magazine, spring 2017.

“Atomic Forces,” “Daphne,” Crab Fat Magazine, May 2016.

“One for Sorrow” and “Juliet Killed Herself to Get Away from Romeo,” Persephone’s Daughters, March 2016.

“Phantasms of Love,” Dirty Chai Magazine, fall 2015.