Short Stories & Poetry

PUBLISHED WORKS & CONTEST WINNERS

“Addicted to Plastic” - short story to be published in the New Ohio Review in late-2025.

“Of Wolves and Snakes” - poem to be published in the After Happy Hour Review in late-2025.

“Once is Enough” - short story to be published in the Los Angeles Review in late-2025. Previously selected as a finalist in the Tucson Festival of Books 2024 Short Fiction Contest.

“Machines Don’t Whimper” - short story to be published by The Brussels Review in late-2025 / early-2026.

“Fog in the Desert” - short story to be published in the Free State Review in 2026.

“Too Close to the Sun” / “Careful with the Knife” / “A Desert Crossing” - three poems published in 2025 in Floating Acorn Review's Issue Four. “Too Close to the Sun” nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

“Preschool Drop-off on a Monday Morning” - flash fiction published in the Los Angeles Review in 2025.

“Lost and Found” - short story published in Dogwood Literary Journal Spring 2025 edition. Also selected as finalist in Tucson Festival of Books 2025 Short Fiction Contest.

“Before it Gets Cold”- winner of 2025 Slippery Elm Literary Journal’s annual short story contest. To be published in late-2025. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

“Two Dollars a Door” - poem published in 2025 as part of the anthology, Screaming at America, Volume 2—An Anthology of Disobedience.

”How to Say Goodbye” - published as 2nd place winner in Flash 500 contest, March 2023. Also selected as a finalist in New Millenium Writing Awards 55.

”The Reburial” - published (p 93-106) in Driftwood Press 2023 Anthology as a runner-up in their annual short story contest.

”Remember this Morning” - short story published by The Los Angeles Review in December 2022.

“A Night to Remember” - flash fiction published by The Los Angeles Review in June 2022.

”One Hundred Thousand Steps” - short story published by Kallisto Gaia Press in Ocotillo Review Volume 6.1, Winter 2022. Honorable mention in annual short story contest in 2022.

FINALISTS & HONORABLE MENTIONS - UNPUBLISHED AS OF NOVEMBER 2025

“Older than You” - selected as finalist in New Millenium’s 2025 short story contest.

“One More Jump” / “Things Burn in the Country” - two short stories selected as finalists in Tucson Festival of Books 2024 Short Fiction Contest.

“We Used to Hunt Whales” - finalist for 2024 Prime Number Magazine Award.

“A Misunderstanding” - finalist in Tucson Festival of Books 2023 Short Fiction Contest.

”Mother, Mother” - shortlisted in 2022 Write by the Sea competition in Kilmore Quay, Ireland.

”The Letter” - honorable mention in Writer’s Digest 2022 Annual Short Story Competition.

“Sunsets on the Pier” - finalist in New Letters’ 2022 Robert Day Award for fiction.

“Halley’s Comet” - long listed in Fish Publishing’s 2022 Short Story Contest.