SHORT STORIES

  • A Haunting for Eliza Jane.” The Palisades Review.

  • Farmland.” New Flash Fiction Review. Issue #33.

  • Launch Day Conditions: 1986.Fractured Lit Anthology. Vol. 3.

  • “Leon and Dead Marta.” Blue Earth Review. Issue 19.

  • “Sweet Tea.” Weird Sisters: Lilac City Fairy Tales. Vol. 3.

  • “Small Birds.” Reed: A journal of poetry & prose. Issue 60. Finalist John Steinbeck Short Story Award.

  • “When the Sky Fell in Washington.” The Southeast Review. Vol. 23. No. 1. Finalist Best Short-Short Story Contest

OTHER

Essay “Buried Breath” on earthworms and memories in spring/summer 2024 issue of Montana Naturalist Magazine.
(Listen to a recording, aired on MTPR’s Field Notes.)

Contributor in humanities collection Women's Health and Corporate Marketing: Our Bodies, Their Business. (Routledge August 2024.)

Fiction Editor at Literary Mama.

APHA Public Health Film Festival

CURRENT PROJECTS

Novel: Bioluminescence
(Seeking representation.)

Novel: Scorch. A Result of Scorching. (In the works.)
Scorch was shortlisted for a 2024 WIP award by Unleash Press.

ANIMATION SERIes: LINES FROM REJECTED STORIES

Featured lines are from my rejected story, “CONNATE”.

The dentist’s teeth are flawless, perfectly straight and a brilliant white. And fake. A carefully constructed bridge, crown and veneers rebuilt the remaining broken smile that shattered during the accident, leaving bits of broken sharp jagged teeth. Before seeing patients, the dentist rinses this fabricated, flawless smile with Listerine, relying on its harsh mint medicinal smell to mask the alcohol on his breath. He has anxiety – leaning over, inches from the patient’s face — that they can smell something beyond the minty camouflage, that they can see the distortions, the unnatural arch of his hairline, the details in the dark grooves and the stretched, spider-web skin next to patches that are too smooth for his age. He wears make-up. An intricate balance of purples and pinks and oranges and browns to try and blend the scars into natural tones – to add highlights and lowlights to manipulate his face back to the familiar.

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