Publications


COLLECTION

Skeletal Lights from Afar (What Books Press, 2022)

NOVEL

Gary Oldman Is A Building You Must Walk Through (What Books Press, 2017)

NOVELLA

Line and Pause (BlazeVOX Books, 2007)

CHAPBOOK

"Glints from the Razor of Dreyfus Lent" (excerpt). Triple, no. 20 (Ravenna Press, 2022)
The Sullen Pages: A Veneer Pastoral (Little Red Leaves, 2013)

LITERARY JOURNALS (PRINT)

"Three American Cinematic Fictions." Heavy Feather Review, 2021.
"Lars Left Unsaid." TRNSFR, 2020.
"As a Social Worker, With Your Keatsian Flair." Vestiges, 2015.
"The Signature of a Gentle Man as Sid Vicious," "At the Hotel Chelsea, Your Dreams Are Only a
     Body Bag." Heavy Feather Review, 2015.
"The Best Part of Houston," "The Alcoholic's Return." Cardinal Sins, 2014.
"Seven Books by Alfred Hitchcock." Juked, 2014.
"The Careens," "Deluge," "Prepossessing." Upstairs at Duroc, 2013.
"The Lung, the Feather, the Tooth." Caketrain, 2013.
"Apology." Foothill: A Journal of Poetry, 2012.
"Tanpopo." The Louisiana Review, 2012.
"Clean Dead Leaves." Quick Fiction, 2010.
"Paste." Bateau, 2009.
"Noir Noir." Sein und Werden, 2009.
"Trade." The Corduroy Mtn., 2009.
"As His Pastoral Desires." Caketrain, 2008.
"A Triptych of Saints: Agatha of Catania, Jeanne of Arc, Lucia of Siracusa." Denver Quarterly, 2008.
"No Eyes," "True North." Sleepingfish, 2007.
"The Bear Planet Edict." Tin Parachute Postcard Review, 2007.
"Funny Little Bird." Snow Monkey, 2007.
"Paper," "Chinese Apples," "Nature." NOON, 2006.
"In the Mitsukoshi." Paragraph, 2005.
"The Mistress." Quick Fiction, 2005.

LITERARY JOURNALS (ON-LINE)

"New Wave Kyrie for Fallen Artists Still Living." Propagule, 2023.
"Secret Cowboy Bar." The Rupture, 2022.
"Robert Mapplethorpe." Guesthouse, 2020.
"Cat Acne." Columbia Journal, 2019.
"Terror Squid." Juked, 2019.
"Losing a Seat." Storyscape, 2018.
"The Oblique Romantic." Timber, 2016.
"A Senile Lucifer." Black Sun Lit, 2016.
"A Bad Vase Does Not Break." The Stockholm Review of Literature, 2016.
"Noir Noir: A Minimal Thriller." Punchnel's, 2015.
"Execution Letters." The Rupture, 2014.
"I Lack the Forgiveness of Gary Oldman." theNewerYork, 2014.
"Your Famous Sister Walking Through a Plate-Glass Door at the Gehry Museum If It
     Existed." Black Sun Lit, 2014.
"Five Introducers At a Public Reading For Sid Vicious and Gary Oldman." Anomalous, 2014.
"Gary Oldman Is a Building We Must Walk Through." alice blue review, 2014.   
"Green Yolk." Dialogual, 2014.
"Keeping With." Corium, 2012.
"Only If We Had Lived Here." San Antonio Current, 2011.
"Nocturnes." Mud Luscious, 2011.
"Three-Hundred Mile House." elimae, 2011.
"A Verbosity He," "Roomiers." Ekleksographia, 2011.
"Field Communion." The Anemone Sidecar, 2010.
"Until Spiderweb Memento, Her Theater with Less Agreement." Pinstripe Fedora, 2010.
"Letter to Robert Jordan of Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls.Letters with 
     Character, 2010.
"Seasonable." Writers’ Bloc, 2010.
"Tender Spoils." Staccato, 2010.
"Tibetan Couture," "Wooden Chair Sitting Alone in Library." Improbable Object, 2009.
"Romanov," "Percussive Row." elimae, 2009.
"Entrée." The Anemone Sidecar, 2009.
"Drawstring." Dogzplot, 2009.
"Avian and Wife, At Last." Lonesome Fowl, 2009.
"Flight, And This Denial Lands To." Otoliths, 2009.
"Entities Otherwise," "Pacel Post Belgique: Cirlgors, Kwartelkonig, Wintertaling, Somewhere Over
     Copenhagen (Perhaps)." elimae, 2008.
"Dearest," "Fantasy of Trees in Silver," "Japonisme." Mad Hatters' Review, 2008.
"Final Cathedral." Six Sentences, 2008.
"Real Eisenhowers." Thieves Jargon, 2008.
"Triple Negative." elimae, 2007.
"Drift." 5_Trope, 2007.
"Pleasant on the Side." BlazeVOX: An Online Journal of Voice, 2007.
"Afterbirthing," "Curio," "Vouchsafed." Word Riot, 2007.
"Glossies." Double Room, 2007.
"Pure." Locus Novus, 2007.
"Shouldering." elimae, 2006.
"Impermanence," "Sekai," "Setsuko." alice blue review, 2006.
"Fait Accompli," "Immaterial," "Nerve," "Noir Noir." elimae, 2005.
"Proust’s Moustache." Starry Night Review, 2005.

ESSAYS

"Replica as New Revision: A Flash Technique." Whale Road Review, 2016 (on-line).
"Reducing Language, Growing Story: Flash Fiction and Word Counts." NANO Fiction, 2014 (on-
     line).
"Writing Within Sound: A Reflection." Passages North, 2013 (on-line) series.
"Regarding the Cruel Moment in the College Flash Workshop." NANO Fiction, 2013.
"The Words We Write for Ourselves: Confronting the Myths of Race, Education, and American
     Genius in Finding Forrester." With Joanna Davis-McElligatt. The Pedagogy of Pop: Theoretical 
     and Practical Strategies for Success. Edward Janak and Denise Blum, eds. Lexington Press, 2012.

BOOK REVIEWS

Andrzej Tichý, Wretchedness (And Other Stories, 2020; trans. Nichola Smalley). The Literary Review,       December 2020.
Linda Bostrom Knausgaard, The Helios Disaster (World Editions, 2020; trans. Rachel Willson-
     Broyles). The Literary Review, May 2020.
Peter Stamm, The Sweet Indifference of the World (Other Press, 2020; trans. Michael Hofmann).
     The Literary Review, December 2019.
Paul Skenazy, Temper CA (Miami UP, 2019). The Literary Review, August 2019.
Sybil Baker, While You Were Gone (C&R Press, 2018). The Literary Review, February 2019.
Aimee Parkison, Refrigerated Music for a Gleaming Woman: Stories (FC2, 2017). The Rupture,
     2018.
Lina Meruane, Seeing Red (Deep Vellum 2016; trans. Megan McDowell). The Rupture, 2016.
Adam Tipps Weinstein, Some Versions of the Ice (Les Figues Press, 2016). The Rupture, 2016.
Pophana Brandes, In An I (Sidebrow Books, 2015). The Rupture, 2015.
Steven Seidenberg, Itch (RAW ArT Press, 2014). The Rupture, 2014.
Sean Thomas Dougherty, The Blue City (Marick Press, 2007). Artvoice, Vol. 7, No. 27. July 2008.
J’Lyn Chapman, Bear Stories (Calamari Press, 2008). Artvoice, Vol. 7, No. 15. April 2008.
Rusty Barnes, Bringing it Down (sunnyoutside, 2007). Artvoice, Vol. 7, No. 14. April 2008.
Lou Rera, There Are No Doors On a Cocoon: Ugly Little Tales of Nasty Little Humans
     (BookSurge, 2008). Artvoice, Vol. 7, No. 6. February 2008.

ANTHOLOGIES

"Drawstring" (reprint). Dogzplot Flash Fiction Anthology, 2009.
"Impermanence" (re-print). Nickel City Nights: Erotic Writing in Western New York, 2008.

NEWSPAPERS & WEEKLIES 

"Only If We Had Lived Here." San Antonio Current, 22 April 2011 (on-line).
"Vouchsafed" (re-print). Artvoice, Vol. 8, No. 5, January 2009. 
"The Mistress" (re-print). The Buffalo News, 9 April 2006.

INTERVIEWS

"Out of the Box: An Interview with Deb Olin Unferth." Artvoice, Vol. 6, No. 43. November 2007.
"Permutated Pasts: An Interview with Daniel Borzutzky." Artvoice, Vol. 6, No. 5. February 2007.
"Writing Your Way Out: Peter Conners Jumps Genre and Extols the Killer First Line." Artvoice,
     Vol. 5, No. 44. November 2006.
Gary Lutz. Artvoice, Vol. 5, No. 39. September/October 2006.
Dawn Raffel. Artvoice, Vol. 5, No. 17. April 2006.
"Depth Charge: James Grinwis." Artvoice, Vol. 5, No. 9. March 2006.
"Flashes of Emotion: Kim Chinquee." Artvoice, Vol. 5, No. 4. January 2006.

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