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Publications

NOTE: some listings have links to the stories or reviews posted online.

Awards & Honors

2011 St. Lawrence Book Award contest for short story collections (Black Lawrence Press), finalist for Desperate Men, Desperate Measures.

2011 Springfed Arts Writers Contest, first place in fiction

Midwest Literary Magazine Distinction Award for Fiction, June 2011

Novels/Novellas

Mr. Neutron, December 2011 (seeking representation)

Cyber Styletto, written for clients; published by Cyber Styletto LLC, e-published on Lulu and Smashwords, July 2011

The Ballo Brothers, 2009 (formerly represented by Andrea Hurst and Associates)

Fiction

Lumina (Sarah Lawrence College): “Nixon in State”; pending Spring 2013

BULL (men’s fiction): “The Decline of the Swan”; pending

The Lifted Brow (Melbourne, Australia): “The Killer of the Writer”; April 2013

Palimpsest (University of Colorado): “Every Man Unto His Family”; December, 2012

Prick of the Spindle: “Unexplored Landscapes”; Fall 2012

Prime Mincer: “A Teaching Moment; Fall 2012 issue

Passager: “Moving Day”; Spring 2012

Fiction Fix (University of North Florida): “Living in Dark Houses”; Spring 2012

Valparaiso Fiction Review (Valparaiso University, IN): Tacking in Moonlight”; Spring 2012

Fiction Southeast: Once a Star”; Spring 2012

Bacopa Literary Review: “A Snowball’s Chance”; Spring 2012

Uncle John’s Flush Fiction (humor): “A Great Weight”; Spring 2012

The Chaffin Journal (Eastern Kentucky Univ.): “By the Side of the Road”; December 2011

Mixed Fruit:A Tap on the Glass”; October, 2011

Apalachee Review: “The Sting of the Glove”;Spring 2011

Midwest Literary Magazine:The Face Maker”; April 2011

      Also included in quarterly print anthology

Stymie: Hardcourt”; October, 2011

100 Stories for Queensland: “A Handout for the Ages”; May 2011

Tobybashi: “Being Enormous”; Vol. 1, No. 1, Winter 2009

Vestal Review: “Eyes with No Promise”; Issue 34, Summer 2009

Summerset Review Annual Anthology: The Art of Waiting”; Vol. 2, 2008

Peeks & Valleys a Southern Journal: “Friendship Bread”; Vol. 8, No. 4, November 2008

Soundings Review: “Symbiosis”; September 2008

Summerset Review: “The Art of Waiting”; June 2007

Nonfiction

Connotation Press:Finding Pride: A Remembrance of My Grandfathers,” July 2012

Reviews

Los Angeles Review:

The Man Who Wouldn’t Stand Up, Fiction by Jacob M. Appel; March 2013 (online)

Psychology and Other Stories, Stories by C.P. Boyko; February 2013 (online)

An End to All Things, Short Stories by Jared Yates Sexton; January 2013 (online)

The Masters Review, Short Stories selected by Lauren Groff (review and essay), December 2012 (online)

A Very Minor Prophet, by James Bernard Frost; Fall 2012

Chicago Stories, by Michael Czyzniejewski; Fall 2012

Kino, by Jürgen Fauth; Fall 2012

Art from Art, Edited by Stephen Soucy; Fall 2012

My Call to the Ring, by Dierdre Gogarty with Darrelyn Saloom; October 2012 (online)

Hush Hush, Short Stories by Steven Barthelme; September 2012 (online)

Maverick Jetpants in the City of Quality, Fiction by Bill Peters; August 2012 (online)

The Law of Strings and Other Stories, Short Stories by Steven Gillis; August 2012 (online)

Stray Decorum, Short Stories by George Singleton; August 2012 (online)

The Grievers, by Marc Schuster; July 2012 (online)

Sex with Buildings, by Stephanie Barbé Hammer; July 2012 (online)

Subduction, by Todd Shimoda, with art by L.J.C. Shimoda; July 2012 (online)

Speculation,by Edmund Jorgensen; June 2012 (online)

Attack of the Copula Spiders, by Douglas Glover; May 2012 (online)

No One Me Told I Was Going to Disappear, by A.J. Tyler and John Dermot Woods; May 2012 (online)

13 Loops: Race, Violence, and the Last Lynching in America, by BJ Hollars; Spring 2012

Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls, by Alissa Nutting; Spring 2012

The Tsar’s Dwarf, by Peter Fogtdal; Vol. 7; Spring 2010

Ray of the Star, by Laird Hunt; Vol. 6, Fall 2009

Other Journals:

Monkeybicycle: The House Enters the Street, by Gretchen E. Henderson; September, 2012

Tottenville Review: Finding a Seat on the Bus: A Daughter Traces Her Father’s Unspoken Civil Rights Involvement; Review of Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus by Ana Maria Spagna; November 2010

Fifth Wednesday Journal: Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned, by Wells Tower; Fall 2009

Fifth Wednesday Journal: The Vagrants, by Yiyun Li; Fall 2009

Raven Chronicles: The End is the Beginning: Stories by Matt Briggs; Vol. 14, No. 2, 2009

Articles

Los Angeles Review: “John Rechy: The Hustler and the Writer Reconciled” (profile of issue honoree); Vol. 11, pending Spring 2012

Interviews

Los Angeles Review: “Crossing the Great Genre Divide, an Interview with Matt Bell; Vol. 9, Spring 2011

Los Angeles Review: “An Interview with Tara Masih”; Vol. 8, Fall 2010

Books Edited

Up, and to the Right, by Richard Stiennon; May 2012

The Breach, by Stewart Sternberg and Christine Purcell; July 2011

Surviving Cyber War, by Richard Stiennon; The Scarecrow Press, Inc., September 2010

Pets and the Planet: A Practical Guide to Sustainable Pet Care, by Carol Frischmann; Howell Book House, February 2009

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I am the Book Review Editor for the Los Angeles Review, a literary journal.

For links to some published stories, go to my Publications page.

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