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Select Publications

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    Poetry

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• "Thank You, Forgiveness." Best New Poets, reshared by @poetryisnotaluxury

• "After Running into My Student at Therapy." Southeast Review

• "When I Think Back in Gapped Couplets." Salamander

• "Sitting at the Light at 46th and Meridian." Southern Indiana Review

• "There's More than God or Semi-Trucks in Indiana, Not that You'd Know." The Columbia Review

• "The Writers' Bench in Gapped Couplets." The Common

• "Life Outside the Dream Box." Saranac Review

• "Keep Your Plastic Flowers, I'm Not Dead Yet." The Missouri Review

• "The Market." The Laurel Review

• "This is Not Your Mama's Sabra." Blue Earth Review

• "Let Me Paint Thanksgiving." Puerto del Sol

• "Hepburn Manor, Los Angeles." The Missouri Review *Miller Audio Prize finalist

  • The above poem is read to music and featured on a short podcast

• "After the Drunk Guy at The Cellar Asked if I Spoke Arabic." Hobart

• "Microwaving Sub Sandwiches in the Trailer." The Missouri Review and Best New Poets (2021) *Selected by Kaveh Akbar

• "Atmosphere in Our Bullshit Little Town." The Normal School

• "Concessions." So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library

• "The Good Life." Cimarron Review *Pushcart Prize Nomination

• "The View From Here." the minnesota review

• "The Practice of Becoming Oneself." Gulf Stream

• "Hepburn Manor, Los Angeles." Muzzle Magazine

• "The Perfect Time to Leave One Home for Another." Poet Lore *Pushcart Prize Nomination

• "First Montana, Next Wyoming." The Meadow

• "Illinois Breakdown." Barely South Review

• “Morning in West Virginia.” The Fourth River *Selected for New Poetry From the Midwest

• “The Perfect Time to Walk Out of Someone’s Life.” The Sewanee Review 

• "How the Journey Worked." The Southampton Review

• “Thank You, Forgiveness.” Best New Poets (2017) *Selected by Natalie Diaz

• "Looking Back at 21st and Hoyne, Chicago." Zone 3

• "We're Not There Yet." Yemassee

• "Yeah, Sure." Yemassee

• "In My Little Book of Things I Write Down." Barrow Street

• "We Do What We Do." Barrow Street 

• "Morning in West Virginia." New Poetry from the Midwest (2019)

• "After Graffiti, Northside Carbondale." Hot Metal Bridge

• "All That Matters." Nashville Review *Best of the Net Nomination

• "Sixth Grade Autobiography." Hawai'i Pacific Review

• "Boulder, Colorado, 1989." Sierra Nevada Review

• "This is West Virginia, Not Los Angeles, and All of a Sudden I Feel Old." Sierra Nevada Review

• “It Always Does.” Salt Hill *Pushcart Prize Nomination

• “Feeling Out of Place at Home.” Chicago Quarterly Review 

• “What Remains.” Bayou Magazine 

• “I’d Rather Not Say.” Sugar House Review 

• “Summertime Chi.” Appalachian Heritage 

•  “After You Almost Divorced Your Husband.” Permafrost 

• “Just Once.” Ninth Letter

• “Concessions.” Third Coast 

• "How Long Has It Been?" The Meadow *Pushcart Prize Nomination

• "Illustrating Emily." Hawai'i Pacific Review

• “Whoever You Love I Hate & Whoever You Hate I Love.” The Fourth River 

• “My Mother is Texting Me About God, Again.” Barrow Street 

•  “Dirty Dancing Saves The World.” The Laurel Review

•  “Stay Off My Plate.” The Southampton Review 

• “We Have Problems.” Hobart 

• “Waking Up.” Hobart 

• “The Birthday Gift.” Hobart 

• “Skylark.” Permafrost

• “Soul Searching In a Peach Orchard.” Hawai’i Pacific Review 

• “Boys Will B-Boy.” Passages North 

• “Walk Among Men on State and Chicago.” Tampa Review

• “What Does My America Look Like?” Permafrost

• “Three Girls in a Drive-by Shooting.” The Pinch 

• “California: The New American Dust Bowl.” The Pinch

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    Screenwriting

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• "Imaginary Friends," Coverfly, The Red List #14 Animated TV Half-Hour, May 2023

• "River Rats," ScreenCraft TV Fellowship, semi-finalist, May 2023

• "Imaginary Friends, " Big Apple Film Festival, finalist, May 2023

• "Meaderville," Big Apple Film Festival, semi-finalist, lab submission, May 2023

• "Meaderville," Big Apple Film Festival, honorable mention, April 2023

• "Meaderville," Coverfly, The Red List #12 Drama Television One-Hour, March 2023

• "Meaderville," Tracking Board Launch Pad, second rounder, March 2023

• "River Rats," Tracking Board Launch Pad, second rounder, March 2023

• "River Rats," Austin Film Festival, AMC TV Pilot Award, semifinalist, October 2022

  • Selected from 10k entries; under consideration for finals as of October 2022

• "Meaderville," Stage 32, TV Drama, semifinalist, August 2022

• "The Minor Gods of West Virginia," Stage 32, TV Drama, quarterfinalist, August 2022

• "Meaderville," Coverfly, The Red List #20 Drama Television One-Hour of the Year, June 2022

  • Top 1% of all 85,000 screenwriting projects, 2022

• "Meaderville," Coverfly, The Red List #9 in Drama Television One-Hour, May 2022

  • Top 1% of all 81,000 screenwriting projects, 2022

• "Meaderville," The Script Lab, finalist, 2022​

• “The Minor Gods of West Virginia,” ScreenCraft TV Fellowship, quarterfinalist, 2022​

• “Meaderville,” Coverfly, The Red List #14 in Drama Television One-Hour, April 2022

  • Top 1% of all 79,000+ screenwriting projects, 2022

• “Meaderville,” Austin Film Festival, AMC TV Pilot Award winner 2021, (selected from 14,648 entries)

• “Meaderville,” Coverfly, The Red List #11 in Drama Television One-Hour, November 2021

  • Top 1% of all 65,000+ screenwriting projects, 2021​

• “Meaderville,” Austin Film Festival, One-Hour TV Drama Award, semi-finalist (top 2% of 14,648 entries), 2021 

• “Meaderville,” Austin Film Festival, Warner Bros. Pilot Award, semi-finalist (top 2% of 14,648 entries), 2021

• “Meaderville.” ScreenCraft TV Fellowship, semi-finalist, 2021

• “Stitch,” ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Contest (judged by editors from The Paris Review, Granta, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), quarterfinalist, 2019

• “Sheriff,” ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Contest, (judged by editors from The Paris Review, Granta, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, quarterfinalist, 2019

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    Fiction

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• "Payback for Mongoose Charlie.": 1st prize winner of the Big Muddy | Southeastern Missouri State U. Short Story Competition *Pushcart Prize Nomination

• “Stitch.” Permafrost 

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    Hybrid: Creative Writing Meets Professional Writing 

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• "In Doubt." The Laurel Review 

• "Everything is So Sun-Drenched and Awful." The Laurel Review *Pushcart Prize Nomination

• “Broad Ripple, Toxic Masculinity, & The Uber Driver That Asked About the Snow.” The McNeese Review

• “Dear Standard Parts of a Workplace Letter—the hell do you know(?).” The McNeese Review

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    Nonfiction

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• “My Mother Made Popcorn in a Casserole Dish.” Permafrost

• “Hello Chicago.” Chicago Sun Times​