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FICTION

SHORT FICTION

Drawing inspiration from place and art, these short stories are held together by thematic pressure of stagnation and yearning to break out, sometimes in a self-destructive way. Each story is a baton pass to the next in that way.

Orange and Yellow”  //  The Ekphrastic Review  (April 9, 2022)

“Teotihuacán”  //  The Ekphrastic Review  (June 9, 2021) 

“Wild Hearts Don't Break: 1980”  //  The Ekphrastic Review  (July 16, 2020)

Open Window”  //  Grain Magazine  (Winter 2018)

Blue Dove”  //  The SFWP Quarterly  (May 2016)

“The Gleaners”  //  Santa Fe Writers Project  (September 2014)

“Interior with View of the Ocean”  //  Inversion Magazine  (Summer 2005)

SHORT STORY COLLECTION

“Wild Hearts Don't Break and Other Stories: 1980”
Longlisted for the 2022 Santa Fe Writers Project Award!

NOVEL

Bitters in the Honey  (October 2017)

A multi-voice novel about loss, guilt, the fierce beauty of nature, and the ambiguity of good and evil. Former NPR book reviewer Alan Cheuse called the anti-hero character, Jack Allsman, “Faulkneresque.”​

NEWS & PRAISE
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