Publications

ONLINE

Five on the Fifth
~ High Side (short story)

Escape Into Life
~ Four poems
~ How to Receive Bad News
~ How to Play Backgammon
~ I ♥ NY
~ Death Spends Halloween at the Country Bar
Nominated for a 2018 Pushcart Prize

After the Pause
~ antithesis

Mezzo Cammin
~ Pierce & Brand: A Sideshow Diptych (heroic crown of sonnets)
~ The Sword Swallower Meets the Tattooed Lady
~ Unraveling

Split Lip
~ Crescent City Love Song
~ The Tattooed Lady Answers the Marks

Sundog Lit
~ Cowboy (The Tattooed Lady Window Shops)
Finalist for the 2013 Best of the Net Awards

Barely South Review
~ At the Corner of February

Poemeleon
~ To the Sword Swallower c/o Pierce & Brand’s World of Dangerous Wonders

Vinyl Poetry
~ How to Be the Sole Woman Working in a Tattoo Shop
~ How to Be a Soft Place to Land

Muzzle
~ How to Cook Alone
~ The Right Light Makes All the Difference
~ Sanctuary
~ Watching the Sword Swallower
“Watching the Sword Swallower” also appears in the Muzzle “Best of the First Year” print issue

The Collagist
~ The Sword Swallower’s Mother Speaks

Radius
~ Processional
Nominated for a 2012 Pushcart Prize

PANK
~ Hunting
~ Sawdust Glossolalia

Arsenic Lobster
~ For Franz Marc on the Occasion of His Thirty-Sixth Birthday
~ To the Cancer My Mother Does Not Have
Both poems also appear in the Arsenic Lobster 2011 print anthology

Foundling Review
~ Airport Elegy

The Orange Room Review
~ Blindsided

PRINT

The Dead Animal Handbook
~ Swallow, Ducklings, Sugar Bowl

Uncommon Core: Contemporary Poems for Learning and Living
~ Anatomy of a Downward Spiral
~ Drift
~ Meditation

Tandem
~ The Sword Swallower’s First Time
~ Refrain

Yemassee
~ A Sudden Blow
Winner of the 2012 Pocataligo Poetry Prize

Southern Indiana Review
~ Kissing the Fire Eater

Midwestern Gothic
~ Migration (The Tattooed Lady Returns)

Iron Horse Literary Review
~ Still Life with Diner and Dog
Nominated for a 2013 Pushcart Prize, also appears in Best of IHLR anniversary issue

PANK
~ The Young Sword Swallower at Dinner
~ Illuminated (The Tattooed Lady Explains)
“Illuminated” Nominated for a 2013 Pushcart Prize

Affilia
~ Trauma
~ Prescription