BOOKS:
The Lost Positive (BlazeVOX [books], 2023)
The Eggshell Skull Rule (Kelsay Books, 2018)
CHAPBOOK:
Gathered Bones are Known to Wander (Red Bird, 2016)
PODCAST:
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode 317: Men are Assumed to be People (listen at link below)
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-podcast-will-change-your-life-episode-three-hundred/id564098800?i=1000633298275
POETRY:
"Tragic Magic," JMWW (online)
"What Flies in Two-Dimensions," [PANK] (online)
"Pegasus Teaches Unicorn the Value of the Hereafter," Burningword
"A Murder Scene Past Police Tape" and "Blindingly Unhappy," Jet Fuel Review (online)
"Always Visible, Almost Forgotten," Posit (online) - Best of the Net Nomination
"Recognition," "Left Behind," and "Don't Dare Say Unglued, Say Savvy," Posit (online)
"Medusa Was Misunderstood, Too," Pleiades (print issue 39.1, Winter 2019)
Review of "What Happens to a Voice Too Long Unused?" Wildness (online)
"What Happens to a Voice Too Long Unused?" Rust + Moth (online and print)
"Rapunzel and Gloria Steinem Have a Baby," Glass: A Journal of Poetry (online)
"Scissors," "There are an Endless Number of Words for Loss," and "The Revolution Begins with Temporary Ghosts," Third Wednesday
"The Women's March," Yes Poetry (online)
"Biopsy," Sweet (online) - Best of the Net nomination / Pushcart Prize nomination
Three poems, Calamus Journal, November 2017
"Insurance Salesmen," Bear Review, October, 2017 (online)
"What Feeds Us," The New Verse News, October, 2017 (online)
"There Are No Orphans in this Town," Escape Into Life, June 2017 (online)
"Collapse of a Small Republic" and "Lovesick," Calamus Journal, April 2017
"The Weight of Dust," "Ode to the Heart I Lost," and "Selling Concessions," The Rumpus, March 2017 (online)
"Autocorrect Replaces 'Home' With 'Gone'," Pittsburgh Poetry Review, March 2017 (print)
"Nesting Dolls are Their Own Conspiracy," Whale Road Review, March 2017 (online) - Pushcart Prize nomination
"Archipelago" and "Aleppo in the Living Room," Mom Egg Review, March 2017 (online)
"Looking Back," Escape Into Life, February 2017 (online)
"dusk (n.) - the period of partial darkness between day and night," Kentucky Review, January 2017 (print)
"Trump," The New York Times poetry contest, January 2017 (online)
"Even Retail Therapy is a Prayer," Escape Into Life, December 2016 (online)
"Splintered Objects Resist Classification," "The Way Haunted is Overused," and "doorway (n.) - the passage or opening into a building or a room," Escape Into Life, December 2016 (online) - Best of the Net nomination
"Autopsy," decomP magazinE, September 2016 (print and online) - Best of the Net nomination
"In Want of Decay," Literary Orphans, September 2016 (online)
"The Eggshell Skull Rule" and "What I Would Salvage in a Fire," Public Pool, September 2016
"Fifty-Two Wednesday Morning Confessions," Red Paint Hill, July 2016
"The Past is Prologue" and "Somewhere to Land," FLAPPERHOUSE, June 2016 (print and online)
"She Who Never Presented Herself Even When Present," "Resting Place," and "deicide (n.) - the act of killing a god," Jet Fuel Review, April 2016 (online)
"distill (v.) - to extract the volatile components of," HOUND, April 2016
"Dear Cinderella (or To Whom It May Concern)," Burningword, January 2016
"Miles From Home," "Homeless, Need Money For A Ladder," and "Inside The Frame," Menacing Hedge, Winter 2016 (online)
"Miasma," Lunch Ticket, December 2015 (online)
"Larger Than Us," One Sentence Poems, November 2015 (online)
"My Grandmother Was Buried in Ink Blotches," Typehouse, September 2015
"Bodies in Font," After the Pause, Fall 2015 (online)
"We Register Damage First," Rogue Agent, August 2015 (online)
"For Henry Nelson," Lament for the Dead, August 2015
"Your Denial Over The Crash," Melancholy Hyperbole, June 2015 (online)
"God Marks His Agendas 'Draft'," *82 Review, Issue 3.3 (print and online)
"Rebirth Through a Pistol," Fractal, January 2015
"Magic," Decades Review, July 2014
CREATIVE NONFICTION:
"Divorce Me From this Show," HEAUXS Mag, July 2019
"Lunch, Hold the Soul," Referential Magazine, June 2015 - republished in their "Best Of" list, December 2016
"Ten Thousand More Times, From the Top," Crack the Spine, October 2014 (online)
"Two Kids, One Burning Stone," Extract(s), October 2014
"Whore of the North Shore," Rougarou, September 2014
"As In Iowa?" Black Fox Literary Magazine, Summer 2014 (print and online)
ESSAYS:
On the Seawall:
"Elizabeth Warren's Withdrawal from the Race Isn't Just Bad for Women. It's Bad for Men." March 10, 2020 (online)
REVIEWS:
The Compulsive Reader:
Review of Morning Will Come by Billy Lombardo, January 2022 (online)
Heavy Feather Review:
"The Echo Lasts and Lasts: Loss and Renewal in Donna Vorreyer's To Everything There Is," April, 2021 (online)
"Inside Endless Epidemics in America - Four Quartets: Poetry in the Pandemic," January, 2021 (online)
The Literary Review:
Review of Connie Post's Book Prime Meridian (online)
Review of Donald Platt's One Illuminated Letter of Being (online)
Kenyon Review:
Review of Jennifer Franklin's Book No Small Gift (online)
The Lit Pub:
"Shame Will Not Have the Last Word: A Review of Jessica Fischoff's The Desperate Measure of Undoing," January, 2020 (online)
Tupelo Quarterly:
"The Aftermath of Abuse: An Exquisite, Transformational Upheaval - Alicia Elkort's A Map of Every Undoing," August 2023 (online)
"The Queen of Queens by Jennifer Martelli," August, 2022 (online)
"What Deserves To Grow Wild: Review of Twila Newey's Novel Sylvia," January, 2021 (online)
"A Life in Shadow: Review of Tina Barry's Beautiful Raft," August 2020 (online)
"Life is an Incurable Virus: Motherhood in the Age of Collected and Collective Fear - Review of Megan Merchant's Before the Fevered Snow," June 2020 (online)
"Making Faith Possible - On Rachel Jamison Webster's Mary is a River," March, 2019 (online)
Pleiades:
"Paula Carter's No Relation from Black Lawrence Press," Summer, 2018 (print)
Agape Editions:
"An Ambiguous Utopia: A Review of Leah Umansky's The Barbarous Century (online)
"Shared Mercy: A Review of Heidi Czerwiec's Conjoining," December 18, 2017 (online)
"Motherhood Unfiltered: A Review of Megan Merchant's The Dark's Humming," September 11, 2017 (online)
The Rumpus:
"The History of Great Things by Elizabeth Crane," July 10, 2016 (online)
"All of the Facts and None of the Truth: Fox Frazier-Foley's Like Ash in the Air After Something Has Burned," May 15, 2017 (online)
Newcity:
"The Poetry of Baseball: A Review of Sandra Marchetti's Aisle 228," June 29, 2023 (online)
"An Ode to Anger: Review of Book of Gods & Grudges," Oct. 17, 2022 (print and online)
"A Year of Haiku Against Injustice: A Review of Khari B.'s 'Haikus For Justice," Oct. 12, 2019 (print and online)
Contributions to "Lit 50: Who Really Books in Chicago 2019," May 23, 2019 (print and online)
Contributions to "Lit 50: Who Really Books in Chicago 2018," May 24, 2018 (print and online)
"Jagged Edges of What Love Wrought: A Review of I'll Be Your Mirror by David Lazar," December 4, 2017 (print and online)
Contributions to "Lit 50: Who Really Books in Chicago 2017," May 25, 2017 (print and online)
"Life Disrupted by the Holocaust: Nonfiction Review of Present Past by Ava Kadishson Schieber," December 19, 2016 (print and online)
Contributions to "Lit 50: Who Really Books in Chicago 2016," May 26, 2016 (print and online)
"A Coming of Age Story in the Shadow of Abuse: Zoe Zolbrod's The Telling," May 18, 2016 (print and online)
Review of Juventud by Vanessa Blakeslee, January 16, 2016 (print and online)
"Reassembling and Contextualizing the Past: The Lost Landscape of Joyce Carol Oates," November 5, 2015 (print and online)
Review of Arrival edited by John Freeman, October 1, 2015 (print and online)
Review of Hazel and the Mirror and The Endless Unbegun by Rachel Jamison Webster, October 1, 2015 (print and online)
Review of The Little Magazine in Contemporary America, edited by Ian Morris and Joan Diaz, August 13, 2015 (print and online)
"Big-Hearted and Bawdy: Tony Fitzpatrick's Dime Stories Speaks Truth to Power," July 16, 2015 (print and online)
Contributions to "Lit 50: Who Really Books in Chicago 2015," June 4, 2015 (print and online)
Review of Drawn From Water by Dina Elenbogen, May 14, 2015 (print and online)
"Reformer on Reformer: Leigh Buchanan Bienen Documents the Legacy of Crusader Florence Kelley," February 5, 2015 (print and online)
"The War at Home: Emily Gray Tedrowe's Blue Stars Explores the Lives of Those the Soldiers Left Behind," March 19, 2015 (print and online)
"Top 5 List," December 25, 2014 (print and online)
"The Myth of the American Dream: Christina Henriquez on Her New Novel, The Book of Unknown Americans," December 11, 2014 (print and online)
Yellow Chair Review:
"Review: Many Full Hands Applauding Inelegantly by Darren C. Demaree," December 21, 2016
"Review: Unspeakable Light by Megan Merchant," October 1, 2016
"Review: The Fugue by Gint Aras," September 19, 2016
"Review: Clown Machine by Jennifer MacBain-Stephens," August 12, 2016
"Review: The Uncanny Valley by Jennifer Martelli," July 20, 2015
"Review: God in Neon by Sam Slaughter," May 25, 2016
"Review: Every Love Story is an Apocalypse Story by Donna Vorreyer," April 14, 2016
"Review: Portrait of the Future With Trapdoor by Elizabeth Onusko," April 5, 2016
"Review: How to Break My Neck by Jessica L. Walsh," March 14, 2016
"Review: and when she tasted of knowledge by Allie Marini," March 7, 2016
"Review: Hello, it's Your Mother by Laurie Kolp," February 23, 2016
"Review: The Lawless River by Shaun Turner," February 1, 2016
Hermeneutic Chaos Journal:
"Review: Evergreen by Sarah Frances Moran," November, 2016
"Review: Heart Radicals by Les Kay, Allie Marini, Sandra Marchetti, and Janeen Pergrin Rastall," May, 2016
Red Paint Hill:
"Review: Before Snowfall, After Rain by Ariel Francisco," March, 2017
"Review: Where There is Ruin by Samuel Snoek-Brown," March, 2017