NOTE: some listings have links to the stories or reviews posted online.
Books
Reader Centered Writing: I’ve been writing and editing creative work for most of my adult life. My new book is a collection of the best of my essays on basic writing conventions, advanced techniques, and musings on the writing life (in a section called Adventures in the Slushpile). There are also several new essays included. Order a print or Kindle version on Amazon, or a PDF on the 55 Fathoms website.
Mr. Neutron, published by 7.13 Books, March 2018; available on Amazon and other online sellers.
Curtain Calls, published by Woodward Press, 2015; a Kirkus featured review. Available on Amazon.
Cyber Styletto, written under a pseudonym for clients; published by Cyber Styletto LLC, 2011
Short Fiction
BULL, “Tacet“; April 2023
Cornice (UK) “The Neurosurgeon”; December 2022
MicroLit Almanac, “Funeral for a Good Friend”; October 2022
The Galway Review, “At Closing Time“; September 2021
Adelaide, “The Face of Need”; fall 2019
Belle Ombre, “Cloud Life”; August 2019
Crab Orchard Review, “A Change of the Odds”; March 2019
Small Print Magazine, “Inviolate”; spring 2019
Masque and Spectacle, “Afterlife”; December 2017
Wilderness House Literary Review, “Missionaries”; October 2017
Crack the Spine, “Ungrounded”; summer 2017. Also included in their annual print anthology.
Oyster River Pages, “Born Famous”; August 2017
Palooka: “This Day of False Spring”; January 2017
2 Bridges Review (City University of New York): “Regeneration”; January 2017
TIFERET: Literature, Art & the Creative Spirit: “Those Who Trespass Against Us”; 2016 Fiction Contest winner, published spring 2017
New Plains Review (University of Central Oklahoma): “In Their Rightful Place”; spring 2016
Sniff and Barkens: “Middle Aged Mutts”; Fall 2015
The Stockholm Review of Literature: “Muzak”; September, 2015
The Stoneslide Corrective: “How to Live at a Hotel”; September 2015
Fugue (University of Idaho): “Gank”; July 2015
The Stoneslide Corrective: “Plunge”; Spring 2014
BULL (men’s fiction): “The Decline of the Swan”; Fall 2013
Lumina (Sarah Lawrence College): “Nixon in State”; Spring 2013
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
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
Awards & Honors
2016: First Prize and Publication, TIFERET: Literature, Art & the Creative Spirit 2016 Fiction Contest for “Those Who Trespass Against Us.”
2014 Honorable Mention and Publication: Stoneslide Corrective Story Contest for “How to Live at a Hotel.”
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
2011 Midwest Literary Magazine Distinction Award for Fiction
Nonfiction
Connotation Press: “Finding Pride: A Remembrance of My Grandfathers,” July 2012
Reviews
Tahoma Literary Review:
The Best Small Fictions 2015, Guest Editor Robert Olen Butler, Series Editor Tara Masih, Queen’s Ferry Press
The Misadventures of Sulliver Pong, by Leland Cheuk, Chicago Center for Literature and Photography
Nobody’s Looking, by J.R. Miller, ELJ Editions
Wittgenstein Jr., by Lars Iyer; Melville House
Los Angeles Review:
Tales from Ma’s Watering Hole, Fiction by Kaye Linden; September 2013 (online)
Bough Down, Nonfiction and Art by Karen Green; Fall 2013
Kabuki Boy, by Perle Besserman; Fall 2013
The Biology of Luck, by Jacob M. Appel; August 2013 (online)
You: An Anthology of Essays Devoted to the Second Person, Kim Dana Kupperman, with Heather G. Simon and James M. Chesbro, Editors; April 2013 (online)
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/Interviewed
Publishing Genius: “Interview with Adam Robinson”; November 2013
Interviewed in The Believer, May 2013
Delphi Quarterly: Interview with Kathleen Rooney of Rose Metal Press; Summer 2013
Delphi Quarterly: “Interview with Gretchen E. Henderson”; Spring 2013
Delphi Quarterly: “Interview with Dan Cafaro”; Spring 2013
Delphi Quarterly: “Interview with Sarah Gorham”; Winter 2013
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
Wide Open Privacy: Strategies for the Digital Life, by J.R. Smith and Siobhan MacDermott, IT-Harvest Press, Inc., 2012
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
Conferences/Residencies/Presentations
Playa Summer Lake, spring 2016
AWP 2015 Conference, “Literary Citizenship”; panelist (scheduled)
Northwest Institute of Literary Arts, Guest Faculty, January 2015
AWP 2014 Conference, “Stoking the Fire: Maintaining the Passion for Writing When Success Eludes”; moderator and organizer
Rochester Writers Conference, panel: “Self Publishing,” October 2013
AWP Conference, offsite reading for Stymie Magazine, March 2012
Rochester Writers Conference, panel: “Book Publishing,” October 2011
ConClave Science Fiction Convention, panels: “Keeping In Character, What Editors Want,” October 2011
Dzanc Books, National Workshop Day, seminar leader, April 2011
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