I am SO THRILLED to announce that my short story collection, (m)otherhood, is forthcoming from Widow and Orphan House press, FALL 2017!

Happy to tell you “Birds Want to Kill You” has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize! Thank you to Penny magazine!  ICYMI, here it is.

Happy to announce that my story “The Possum Heart of the Possum Bride” has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. My thanks to The Airgonaut! ICYMI, here it is.

It’s official! There I am, along with the other new additions to the editorial staff, on Tiny Donkey’s masthead. I am thrilled to be working on this project!

I’m happy to announce that Atticus Review has nominated my flash fiction “When the Moon King Met the Outlaw Lady Spider” for this year’s Best of the Net anthology. Thank you Atticus Review!

I’m very happy to announce that CHEAP POP has nominated my flash fiction “This Whole Majestic Thing” for this year’s Best of the Net anthology. Thank you CHEAP POP!

I’m very happy to announce that I’m joining the editorial staff at Tiny Donkey! I’ve been a fan of the journal from its start, and love the writing of founding editor Wren Awry. “Tiny Donkey is a journal of short-form, fairy-tale nonfiction focused on, but not limited to, undergraduate writing. Tiny Donkey essays draw on […]

My story Sheitel, which first appeared at Bartleby Snopes back in June of 2014, is featured in the new issue of Expanded Horizons. “The mission of Expanded Horizons is to increase diversity in speculative fiction and to create a venue for the authentic expression of under-represented voices in the genre.” You can read my story […]

It was a lovely surprise to find my story “This Whole Majestic Thing” recommended by Meghan Phillips as an example of flash she loves in this post at SmokeLong: SmokeLong Welcomes New Editors and Readers. Congratulations to the new staff at SmokeLong, and special thanks to Meghan!

Today the ten semi-finalists and ten finalists were announced for the Spring 2016 Black River Chapbook Competition. My fiction chapbook The Goddamn King of Stag Creek scored me a place as a semi-finalist! Congrats to all the rest of the writers who placed. Thanks to Black Lawrence Press for your consideration. Take a look at the […]