PUBLICATIONS

Publications 

Prose

"Stories in the Shapes of Objects" Quarter After Eight  forthcoming (2005)

"The Avon Witness" storySouth Winter (2004)

"God Helps Those" Carve 5:1 (2004)

"69ing" Exquisite Corpse Winter (2003)

"Quilted Creek: Chapter 1” Northwest Review 41:2  (2003)

“Wish You Were Here” Northwest Review 41:2 (2003)

“The Misplaced Eye” Northwest Review 41:2 (2003)

“Soaping the Stream” Northwest Review  40.2 (2002), reprinted Rock Salt Plum

2:1(2004)

Poetry

“White Bird” Free Lunch  forthcoming (2005)

“Father in Three” Madhatter Review  forthcoming (2005)

"Third Person Going Down" Painted Bride Quarterly no. 71 (2004)

"The Outer Limits" Midwest Quarterly 43:1 (2004)

"Spawn" Rock Salt Plum 2:1 (2004)

"Resembling A Mouse" Rock Salt Plum 2:1(2004)

"Exiled" Margie 3:1 (2004)

"Throwing the Dog a Bone" Margie 3:1 (2004)

"What His Thumb Would Say" 3rd Muse (July 2004)

"My Mother and Me" 3rd Muse (July 2004)

"All the Regrets of My Mother's Life"  Slipstream (2004)

"Just Put Your Lips Together" Plainsongs 24:3 (2004)

"Full of Fathers"  Northwest Review 42:1 (2004)

"What Would Snow White Do?" The Anemone Sidecar (e-book) (April 2004)

"full of voices"  Comstock Review 17:2 (2004)

"Full of Fathers"  Northwest Review 42:1 (2004)

"The Intellectual Poets" Poems Niederngasse 65 (2004)

"After We Donated her Body to Science" Poems Niederngasse 65 (2004)

"Sleek and White" Poems Niederngasse 65 (2004)

"Aggregate Graves" Poems Niederngasse 65 (2004)

"Just Another Mary Jane Joke" Wicked Alice Winter (2003)

"Kissing" Wicked Alice Winter (2003)

"Dead Mother Behind Glass" Plainsongs 24:2 (2004)

"The Open Family" New Orleans Review 29:2 (2003)

"Our Habit of Holes" The Adirondack Review 4:3 (2003)

"Call Me Grim" Rock Salt Plum 1:1 (Winter 2003) (nominated for 2003 Pushcart)

"How I've Worked To Improve My Poetry" Rock Salt Plum 1:1 (Winter 2003)

"This Poem About Scars" Rock Salt Plum 1:1 (Winter 2003)

"Making Children" Rock Salt Plum 1:1 (Winter 2003)

“The Dark Kitchen” Octavo Fall (2003)

“Testimony” Poems Niederngasse (2003)

“Flying Lessons” Wicked Alice Fall (2003)

“Estrogen Gets Her Kicks on a Saturday Night” Wicked Alice Fall (2003)

“Becoming the Poem” Wicked Alice Fall (2003)

“What You Want” Slow Trains Literary Journal 3:1 (2003)

“Rounding the Tip of the World” The Baltimore Review 7:2 (2003)

“Salvation” The Adirondack Review 4:1 (2003)

“God’s Woman” The Adirondack Review 4:1 (2003)

“Traveling In” Spoon River Poetry Review 28:1 (2003)

“Stuffed Full of Fear” Longshot 26:1 (2003)

“Penis Envy” Longshot 26:1 (2003)

“The Body Illusion” The Adirondack Review 3:4 (2003)

“God Cleans House” Comstock Review 16:1 (2002)

“Dancing Chickens” Breathing The Same Air: An East Tennessee Anthology

Knoxville: Celtic Cat Publishing (2001)

“Behind the Revival Tent” Plainsongs 20:3 (2000)

“Little White Hood” Plainsongs 21:1 (2000)

“The Rhythm Eternal” Plainsongs 19:3 (1999)

“Where Do You Keep Your Rifle, Mr. Heston?”

Mother Earth International Journal 6:2 (1999)

“Splinter” America 178:19 (1998)

“Not One For Fairy Tales” Southern Humanities Review 31:3 (1997)

“God-thing” Spoon River Poetry Review 22:2 (1997)

“On the Phone” Plainsongs 18:1 (1997)

“Gardner” Voices International 31:1 (1996)

“In the Biblical Sense” Old Red Kimono vol. 25 (1996)

“God” Nomad’s Choir (1996)

“Gin” Plainsongs 17:1 (1996)

“Bath” Plainsongs 17:1 (1996)

“Bluebird” Black Buzzard Review 13:1 (1995), reprinted Rock Salt Plum Fall (2004)

“Living in the Bible Belt” Pumpkinhead 1:1 (1995)

“Streets” In Your Face #11 (1995)

“Picking Corn” Plainsongs 15:2 (1995)

“Dancers” Ariel Springfest Annual Anthology (1995)

“Cousin” Plainsongs 14:2 (1994)

“Beginnings” Catharsis 3:2 (1993)

Writing Awards

Pushcart Nomination "Call Me Grim" (2003)

Pushcart Nomination "Soaping the Stream" (2002) 

Plainsongs Award Poem 1996 "Gin" (1996)

Plainsongs Award Poem 1994 "Cousin" (1994)

Butch Couch Writers' Contest  Fiction Award First Place "Sleeping Pills" (1997)

Butch Couch Writers' Contest Poetry Award First Place "Civil Defense" (1997)

Butch Couch Writers' Contest Fiction Award Third Place "Satisfaction" (1996)

Butch Couch Writers' Contest Poetry Award Honorable Mention "Liberating Helen" (1996)

Butch Couch Writers' Contest Essay Award Third Place "Chalk" (1995)

Butch Couch Writers' Contest Essay Award First Place  "Church" (1993)

Butch Couch Writers' Contest Poetry Award Third Place "Childhood" (1993)

I am grateful to all of these magazines and journals for giving me the opportunity to see my work in print and to share it with others.