Writing

Publications

Full-Length
	People Live Here: Stories from Yakima (2020) Holy The Firm This collection of 14 flash fiction and short story pieces makes a handy compilation of published and unpublished works from 2009–2014 set in Yakima, Washington. (More info)
Short Works
	“Starlings” Editor’s Choice Award, (short story) Carve Magazine This story, set in the outskirts of Yakima, Washington, provides a snapshot of assumed views of progress and race between a farmer and a corporate lawyer. It’s better than it sounds. I am very proud that it was selected for the “Editor’s Choice Award” and appears in the first print edition of Carve.
	“Fire: Summer 2015” (poem) Rust+Moth This poem began as a letter describing the confining summer of forest fires in Washington State. It evolved into this small piece.
	“The Last Story I Cared About” (flash) Fiction Southeast An admittedly unusual flash fiction piece about a writer, two cats, a Nazi dog, and an affair between professors. This piece was honored as a finalist in Fiction Southeast’s Ernest Hemingway Flash Fiction Prize.
	“Nesting” (poem) Heron Tree Perhaps a love poem. At the very least, a meditation on the (welcome) intrusion of the unexpected.
	“The Granger Spartans Have Not Lost Yet” (short story) Aethlon A complex piece on how one basketball game affects the life of a small town, all unfolding in the small pause as a ball sits on a rim.
	“Persona Or: All Sanctuaries Smell Like Stockholm” (short story) Santa Clara Review High school, identity, religion, Swedish films, and winter in Yakima, Washington.
	“The Photographer” (short story) Pacifica Literary Review When a family’s most famous member dies (the Photographer), his granddaughter must try to find an image of him.
	“Fruit” (poem) The Purpled Nail The first poem published from my collection on the Book of Genesis, “Fruit” is a formal experiment in connecting the ancient, the literary, and the personal.
	“First Day” (short story) Mused Literary Magazine I always loved this piece but was never sure it would find a home: a delicate story of a mother’s insecurities and conflicts on a supposedly happy day: her daughter’s first day of school.
	“Don’t Ask” (flash) Flash: The International Short-short Story Magazine It’s probably easier to print the story than to describe it. In short, two women convince their families that they (the women) are not heterosexual.
	“The Host” (flash) The Fictioneer A moderately wealthy man hides his true talent as a writer. His talent is relatively easy to hide, given that he’s never actually written anything.