Short Stories & Poetry

PUBLISHED WORKS & CONTEST WINNERS

“Of Wolves and Snakes” - poem published in the After Happy Hour Review in December 2025. Interview and audio here. Journal available online here (p. 65-69).

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

“Addicted to Plastic” - short story published in the New Ohio Review in December 2025. Available online (and audio version) here.

“Once is Enough” - short story published in the Los Angeles Review in November 2025. Online here.

“Machines Don’t Whimper” - short story published by The Brussels Review in December 2025. Journal available for purchase here.

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

“Lost and Found” - short story published in Dogwood Literary Journal Spring 2025 edition. Journal available for purchase here.

“Before it Gets Cold”- winner of 2025 Slippery Elm Literary Journal’s annual short story contest. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Journal available for purchase in November 2025 here.

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

”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. Available online here.

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

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

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

UPCOMING PUBLICATIONS

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

“Heat of Summer” - poem to be published in Flyway: Journal of Writing & Environment in 2026.

“A Literate Life” - flash fiction to be published in Flash Fiction Magazine in 2026.

“Holiday Traffic” - short story to be published in Flora Fiction in 2026.

“Older than You” - short story to be published in Flyway: Journal of Writing & Environment in 2026. Previously selected as finalist in New Millenium’s 2025 short story contest.

“Sunsets on the Pier” - short story to be published in Mangrove Review in 2026. Previously a finalist in New Letters’ 2022 Robert Day Award for fiction contest.

“One Hundred Thousand Steps” - short story to be published by Unlikely Stories in 2026. Previously published by Kallisto Gaia Press in Ocotillo Review Volume 6.1, Winter 2022.

FINALISTS & HONORABLE MENTIONS - UNPUBLISHED AS OF JANUARY 2026

“One More Jump” - finalist in Tucson Festival of Books 2024 Short Fiction Contest.

“Things Burn in the Country” - finalist in Tucson Festival of Books 2024 Short Fiction Contest and semi-finalist in Driftwood Press 2024 Short Story Contest.

“We Used to Hunt Whales” - finalist for 2024 Prime Number Magazine Award and semi-finalist in Winning Writers Tom Howard/John H. Reid 2024 Fiction & Essay Contest.

“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.

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

“The Machine” - semi-finalist in Ruminate Magazine 2022 Fiction Contest.

“And the Sign Says” - semi-finalist for Story Magazine’s 2023 Story Foundation Prize.