Publications

Books

• Practicing Disaster (Aldrich, 2014) is available. You can order from Amazon

• MORPH is available from Sibling Rivalry Press (2013) as well as most online bookstores. It can be ordered by most local retailers.

• Paper House (Folded Word, 2010) won the 2010 NCPA award. It is now OUT OF PRINT. 

Chapbooks

• Shopping After the Apocalypse (dancing girl, 2016) was nominated for a 2017 Elgin Award and is available from the publisher.

• An Amateur Marriage (Finishing Line, 2012) was a finalist for the 2011 Robert Watson Award. OUT OF PRINT

• Fat Girl (Sibling Rivalry, 2011) was a finalist for the 2008 Camber Press Chapbook Contest. It is available from the publisher, author, or from your favorite online as well as brick and mortar stores

• The Wait of Atom (Folded Word, 2009) OUT OF PRINT

• At the A & P Meridiem (Pudding House, 2009) OUT OF PRINT

Presentations

• Co-presenter - Charlotte Fall 2024 Writing Conference - What's Behind the Curtain? Considering Creativity, Ethics, and Critical Thinking through AI Prompt Engineering

• Presenter - UNCC Spring 2024 Writing Conference - Are You the Poet or the Poem? Drafting Your Creative Literacy

• Panel member - AWP 2016 - In Case You Think You Don't Belong Here: Imposter Syndrome and AWP 

• Panel moderator - AWP 2013 - Stranger in a Strange Land? The Poet in the Composition Classroom

• Presenter - RCCC LitFest 2012 - Finding an Audience: Inspiring Students and Faculty to Seek Publication

• Presenter - NC Writers’ Network Conference 2010 - I vs. Eye: Fact vs. Truth in Poetry

• Additional presentations include talks for the UNCC Writing Project conference regarding composition studies and digital classroom tools as well as smaller seminars for local writers on networking

Non-fiction

Articles

• Two critical articles/essays in The Worlds of Farscape

• Is it Over? Finding Poetic Closure - Prime Number Magazine

• Sestina Obsession – Form21

• Making the Implicit, Explicit – Form21

• Fibonacci: Math and Poetry - Form 21

• Prose Poem: The Ultimate Oxymoron?-Form21

• Exploring the Villanelle - Form21

• Do You Have a Minute - Form21

• Three articles on Examiner.com

Book Reviews

• Review of Kathleen McGookey’s “Stay” - The Rumpus 

• Review of Nin Andrew’s “Why God is a Woman” The Rumpus

• The Rumpus Review of Henri Cole’s “Nothing to Declare” -The Rumpus

• Review of Sally Keith’s “River House” - The Rumpus

• Review/Discussion of Charlotte Pence’s “Many Small Fires” - The Rumpus

• Book Review– Wild Goose Poetry Review

• Book Review –Tipton Poetry Journal Issue #21

• Their Eyes Like Geodes – The Rumpus

• Tipton Poetry Journal – Issue 18

• The Main Street Rag -Winter 2010

• The Main Street Rag Spring 2010 issue

• Chapbook Round-Up - H_NGM_N

• Video Chapbook Review - Folded Word

• Chapbook Review (via video) - Folded Word

• Review of Paternity by Scott Owens and Interview with poet Kevin Brown – non-fiction - Poets Quarterly

• Winter 2008/2009—Book Review— The Main Street Rag

• Spring 2009, Vol 14 #2 - The Main Street Rag

Guest Blogs

• 5 Favorite Poetry Books - Writer’s Digest Blog

• The Back Story – Rose & Thorn Journal

• Creative Writing Prompts – Point of View and Amateur

• Summer Institute Reunion and Professional Development Meeting – UNCC Writing Project

• A Mini Editorial Rant– 32 Poems

• Video: Tracking Poetry Submissions– 32 poems 

• Give Lit for the Holidays – 32 Poems Blog

• A Poem’s Journey: From Personal Page to Publication – 32 Poems Blog

• How I Found 32 Poems and Why You Should Subscribe – 32 Poems Blog

• We Need a Hero – Splinter Generation

• Featured Writer – Unabashed Impropriety

• The Unexpected Happy Housewife - Little House on the Southern Prairie

Essays

• I’m on a Boat -blue print review – Nominated for a 2011 Pushcart 

• Black and White – New Graffiti

• All Squared Up– 234 Journal

• Frog Legs and Baby Godzilla – Connotation Press

• Wave Your Flagship Store – Connotation Press

• Welcome to Japan – Eclectica

• Burrow – Wilderness House Literary Review

• One Way– Girls with Insurance

• Mobile Home - The Dead Mule

Interviews

• Book Review and Interview for Poets’ Quarterly

• Author Interview - Poets’ Quarterly

Photography

• Beached - Corium Magazine

• Featured Photography - moonShine Review

• An Opening and Fear - 2 photos - The Meadowland Review

• Frost - The Northville Review

• Featured Photo Gallery - Prick of the Spindle

• Dry Dock, Look p and Concrete Lace - 3 photos - ken*again

• Once 2011 - LitSnack

• Tokyo Beauty 2010 - Splinter Generation

• Unabashed Impropriety, 2010 – Croptop

• Garden Party 2010 – Planned Beauty

• Blogging along Tobacco Road, 2009 – Writer’s Red Retreat

Fiction

• 4 to Go – Wilderness House Literary Review

• Braking - Pif Magazine

• Sex of Food - Steel Toe Review

• The Babysitter - LitSnack

• Practicing Disaster – The Dead Mule

• Plumbed – Moonshine Review (print publication)

• Plastic Man – decomP (with audio)

• Hello Shoes – Ragazine

• Bound – Metazen

• Dick and Jane – The Houston Literary Review

Poems

• Hyacinth Blue - PERMAFROST

• The Pit - Visions International

• The Fourth Dimensional Flea Market and Concessions - 2 poems - TRUCK 

• Shopping After the Apocalypse  (4) - Stirring: A Literary Collection 

• Shopping After the Apocalypse II, Shopping After the Apocalypse IV, The Factories Don't Install Emotion Tapes, and Subtitles - UCity Review 

• Digging the Bog - Kentucky Review

• Gender Mapping - storySouth

• Muscling Memory and Stone Letter - 2 poems - Sweet: A Literary Confection

• Hospice and Brave - 2 poems - The Poetry Storehouse

• Little Men and Cleaner - 2 poems - Iodine Poetry Journal

• Open Mic - Best of Poetry Hickory Anthology

• Give me a G!, Fat Girl: The Superhero, and Drawn to Heroes - 3 poems -Drawn to Marvel - Anthology

• A Spectrum Analysis and Alternative Energies (Anatomies) - Hawaii Pacific Review

• Homecoming, Fat in Japan, and Poem to the New Poets - GERM Magazine

• Perhaps He Scrapbooks (1st Prize) and Here There Be Monsters - Kakalak Anthology

• Handkerchief Skin – to be reprinted in The Best of Pirene Fountain‘s anthology

• I almost became a PI – Blue Fifth Review (reprinted in the Southern Poetry Anthology: NC Edition)

• Little Red - (reprint from the collection Paper House) - Virginia Quarterly Online

• The doctor and Jobs You’ve Never Had: The Retail Edition - UCity Review

• Saturday at Merchant Mill Pond – (from the collection Paper House)  reprinted in Literary Trails of Eastern North Carolina 

• Potential Titles for the Mermaid’s Memoir and A Theory of Dampness - wicked alice

• What I think of When I Hear the World Shoulder and Forest - WEAVE

• As if the Tin Man – Handful of Dust (H.O.D)

• Before They All Went Digital – Best of Poetry Hickory Anthology

• Things That Are Out To Get You, Parcel, The Aging Ruler Speaks, and Bangkok Spa – Eye Socket Journal

• Painter’s Pantoum – 2013 Poet’s Market

• Everyone Named Her Bright – Wild Goose Poetry Review

• Elevator Boy – H.O.D. (Handful of Dust)

• Diagramming Sentences – CRATE Magazine

• Little Borders – Assisi 

• Handkerchief Skin – Pirene’s Fountain - Nominated for a 2012 Pushcart Prize

• Function of X – Lily

• The Mummy and The Stylist - The Meadowland Review

• (un)real battle – Southern Women’s Review

• Maid and I was 36 – Wild Goose Poetry Review

• The X Chromosomes Speak – poem – Poetry East

• Write my life story and The Wave – Testing the Waters – Couplet Poetry Festival Anthology

• 10 Reasons Why I’m Ending Class Early – The Monarch Review

• Dragon – Barely South

• MUFF;  In the Mail Room Making Copies, Again; and Short Order – three poems- Marks Lit Journal

• Class Reunion and What Would Buffy Do? - Diverse Voices Quarterly

• If I Had a Son - Blogging Along Tobacco Road’s series Poets and Poems

• Fallen - Mel Bosworth Reads Things

• Zombie Girl Explains Why She Doesn’t Date -  Tipton Poetry Journal

• Fat Girl: The Superhero, Fontanel, Amphibian and Field Trip - Wild Goose Poetry Review

• Far and Wee - Blue Fifth Review

• The Pink Room - Ink Node

• Ars Poetica - New Southerner

• Arrested - The Splinter Generation

• Caught - Young American Poets

• Fat Girl on Fashion - Young American Poets

• Christmas Pageant - Vox Poetica

• “Searching for Virginia Dare” and Commute - Red Dirt Review

• An Extrapolation of the movie Labyrinth in Three Parts – Diverse Voices Quarterly

• Habit Forming - Camroc Press Review

• Ode to a Perpetual Loser – H.O.D (Handful of Dust)

• Blank Page and Dread – Tuck Magazine

• (Re)Imagining – Specter

• Parent(hetical) – Rose and Thorn Journal

• Zombie Girl’s Lament, Learning to Count, The Girl, and I want to be a boy - Wilderness House Literary Review

• All I Wanted was a Donut – poem - Poetry Hickory Anthology

• The Change, The Deeps and My Nerd Boy - Steel Toe Review

• New Kid – National Gallery of Writing

• For the Girls in the Coffeehouse – LitSnack

• Having Gone West – Bolts of Silk

• Not the Sunday Family Night Movie – Young American Poets

• Hoarders - Broad River Review (finalist for the Ron Rash Award)

• After the Storm – Independent Tribune

• Random Things I Loved as a Child, Palimpsest, Preferences, and “stockings sag-haiku” – The Dead Mule

• Quark and A Writer’s Bloc Denial in One Minute – UCity Review

• The Power is Out, My Field of Vision, and The Homemaker and Housewife in Training – Scythe Literary Journal 

• One Minute Battle –  YB Journal

• Little Red –  Georgetown Review

• Perpetual Motion – Praxilla

• What I Thought After Fabio was Hit in the Face by a Bird at Busch Gardens – Wild Goose Poetry Review

• Without a Will – Fox Chase Review

• Summer 2009, Issue 2 — Bright Beacon—Naugatuck River Review

• 2009 - Inter-coastal and Green Moment-Journey Without, The Charlotte Writers Club 2009 Anthology

• Summer/Fall 2009 - Playing House - Southern Women’s Review

• 2009, Vol 1, Issue 3a - The Graveyard Grannies  - The Oddville Press

• April 2009 - Beaters - Camroc Press Review

• April 2009 - River City Debate and Speech Invitational, I’m Trying Weight Watchers, and Best Friends—The Dead Mule

• Volume 4, Issue 1—Wild Goose Poetry Review—The Wait of Atom and Gift Catalog

• February 2009—Drawn to Heroes—The Northville Review, Best of the Net Nominee

• Winter 2008, Volume 7—Sex Education-Margie

• September 2008-The Houston Literary Review—Cleavage and First House, First Summer

• Fall/Winter 2008/2009—March 28th, 1984-Iodine Poetry Journal

• Summer 2008—6pm—The Cherry Blossom Review

• Summer 2008, Volume 13, Number 3—October Cleaning—The Main Street Rag

• Summer 2008, Issue 1—The Summer She Left—The Red Clay Review

• Nov 2007—The Dead Mule—Fat Girl at the YMCA Pool, Winter on the Coast, After Choir Practice, and Marrow.

• 2007 Issue #74—bear creek haiku—Tao, In Quiet Rooms, and Immigrant.

• 2007 Issue #73—bear creek haiku—Homesick

• 2000—Kaleidoscope—Alembic

• Summer 1998—The Anachronism Game—Warrior Poets

• Fall 1997—The Coraddi—Baptism and Girl in the Library, 1997

• Winter 1996—The Storyteller—The Blackboard

• Fall 1996—The Corradi—Pastoral and Dreaming of Omaha

• Fall 1995-The Corradi—the smokescreen

• Fall 1994-Titanium Mars—Juxtaposed Antithesis and As the Child Sees It

• Spring 1994—Titanium Mars—The Changeling

• 1994—Beyond the Third Planet—There Are Dreams

• 1990—Malaprops—Losing Touch, A Noise, Story Book, and Finger Dance.