BOOKS
Wind Apples (Terrapin Books, 2021) – Poetry Collection
The Middle Ground (Into the Void Press, 2019) – Short Story Collection
FICTION
“The Other Drummer”; Cleaver (Fall 2023)
“Our Erosion”; South Carolina Review (Volume 55.2, Spring 2023)
“Land of the Midday Sun”; The Masters Review (May 23, 2022)
“A Lazy Eye”; Reckon Review (November 15, 2021)
“Sea Nettles”; Cherry Tree (Issue 7, January 2021)
“Fuller Brush”; Atticus Review (May 26, 2020)
“Rain Over Kayenta”; The Ocotillo Review (Issue 4.1, Spring 2020)
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize
“Good Cop”; Into the Void Press: We Are Antifa
“Fireball Outfit”; New Short Stories 11 (Willesden Herald, November 2019)
“Homestead”; Catamaran (Vol. 7, Issue 3: Fall 2019, Issue 26)
“KV66”; upstreet (Issue 15, 2019)
“Caldecott Street”; Into the Void (Issue 13, 2019)
“Summer Drop”, “Down from the Castle”, and “The Middle Ground”; ELJ (The Blackout Edition, Spring 2019)
“Still Life”; Apple Valley Review (Vol. 14, No. 1, Spring 2019)
Honorable Mention, Best Microfiction 2020
“Dick Fleming Is Lost”; Hawai’i Pacific Review (October, 2018)
“A Message from Your Bereavement Center”; Star 82 Review (Issue 6.2)
“The New Canaan Village for Epileptics”; So It Goes (7th Annual Edition: Lonesome No More, Summer 2018)
“Repurposing”; Anomaly (Summer 2018)
“Masterpiece”; Juked (April 2018)
“Looking Away Shall Be My Only Negation” “Walking,” and “Double Helix”; ELJ (The Blues Edition, Fall 2017)
“Ice Flowers”; Into the Void (Issue 7, Qtr. 1 2018)
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net
“Parliament of Owls”; SmokeLong Quarterly (Issue 58)
“Lake Mary Jane”; Atticus Review (December, 2017)
Second Place, Flash Fiction Contest, Nominated for a Pushcart Prize
“Snowblind”; The Boiler (November 2017)
“Hiddenfolk”; Origins (September 2017)
“The Insurrection at Fort Bob Ross” and “Commute”; 45th Parallel (Issue 2, 2016-2017)
“Wild Turkeys”; Big Muddy (Issue 17.1)
“The Rescue Blues”; Sierra Nevada Review (2017)
“Coast Starlight”; Into the Void (Issue 3)
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize
“Mountains Between”; Capra Review (Fall 2016)
“Riverside; Storm Cellar (Fall 2016)
“Crossing to Lopez”; The Laurel Review (Spring 2016)
“The Shallow End”; Cold Mountain Review (Fall 2015)
“The Ramp”; New World Writing
“Sognsvann”; SAND (Issue 12, Fall 2015)
“Silo”; Crazyhorse (No. 68)
“Greyhound Bus Potemkin”; Southwest Review (2012, Vol. 97 Issue 2)
“Tule Fog”; Eleven Eleven
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize
“The Village at Null Point”; Bartleby Snopes
“Barn Sale”; Pif
“Inadequate Vessels”; Eclectica
“Jacklight”; Necessary Fiction
“Charlie Little”; Bartleby Snopes
POETRY
“A Well-Made Door”; Catamaran (Volume 11, 4, Fall 2023, Issue 42)
“If He Has to Go, Let Him Go on Horseback”; Rust & Moth (Spring 2023)
“Nutgrass”; Valparaiso Poetry Review (Volume XXIII, No. 1, Fall/Winter 2021-2022)
“On the Anniversary of Loma Prieta”; Catamaran (Catamaran 35, Winter 2022)
“A Road”; Palette Poetry (November, 2021)
“The Retreat from Gettysburg”; River Heron Review (Issue 4.2, Fall 2021)
“Stations”; Cloudbank (Cloudbank 15)
“On Bahia Concepcion”; Silver Birch Press (May, 2021)
“Three Coyotes”; Gleam: Journal of the Cadralor (Issue 2, Spring 2021)
“Owl Island,” “Wendover Man”; Book of Matches (Issue 2, May 2021)
“In”; The American Journal of Poetry (Volume X, January 2021)
“California Death Index”; Sugar House Review (Spring/Summer 2020)
“Pomegranates”; Sky Island Journal (Issue 12, Spring 2020)
Nominated for Best of the Net
“Remains of the Drystack Wall”; Peatsmoke (Spring 2020)
Nominated for Best of the Net
“Meteor Shower Over Gualala”; Catamaran (No. 26, Fall 2019)
“Mutt” and “Trout Spawn in White Clouds”; Radar Poetry (Issue 22, April 2019)
“Tveitt in Absentia”; Subtropics (Issue 26, Fall/Winter 2018)
“Taking the Auspices at Bald Hills”; Penn Review (No. 51)
“Erato, Lorelei & Co.” and “Magellan Sailed on a Saturday Morning”; Two Hawks Quarterly (Winter 2018)
“Michael Collins”; Catamaran (Fall/Winter 2018)
“Suites 3 & 6”; Spillway (Issue 26, 2018)
“Apiary”, “Here’s the Thing”, “The Dunes”, “Ventriloquy”, “After Ash-Scattering”; I-70 Review (Summer/Fall 2018)
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize
“Funderland”; Equinox (Issue 1)
“Anticipating the Storm’s Path”; Blue River (Volume 2, Issue 2)
“Evening at the Downturn”, “The Bear’s Descent from Mt. Kimbrell”, “Leaving Bergen”; Clade Song (Number 8, 2018)
“Riverine”; Timberline Review (Issue 7, Fall/Winter 2018)
“Mountain Misery”; Under A Warm Green Linden (Issue 5, Summer 2018)
“When the Dead Walk in Dubuque”; Lake Effect (Vol. 22, Spring 2018)
“Readying the Pyre”; Pembroke Magazine (No. 50)
“Crossing Lake Tinn”; Valparaiso Poetry Review (Vol. XIX, No. 2)
“The Harbor from Above” and “Descent 2”; Main Street Rag (Winter 2018)
“Floyen” and “Aerial Work”; Homestead Review (Spring 2018)
“Under Sandhill Cranes”; Split Rock Review (Issue 10, Spring 2018)
“Nordmarka,” “Between Kingdoms,” “I Looked Away”; Bridge Eight (Issue 7)
“Lazy Eye”, “A Motel in Stanley, Idaho”; Sugar House Review (Issue 16, Fall/Winter 2017)
“Interregnum,” “A Motel in Stanley, Idaho” (reprinted from Sugar House Review), and “Morning Disappearance”
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize; Tule Review (2017)
“Under the Bear Flag”; Dunes Review (Summer/Fall 2017)
“Listening to Mahler While Waiting for Oroville Dam to Fail”; Connecticut River Review (2017)
“Leaving the Party,” “The Siberians,” “A Wager”; Timberline Review (Issue 5, Summer/Fall 2017)
“After the Drought”; Catamaran Literary Reader (Issue 18, Summer 2017)
“The Brave Father”; Hamilton Arts & Letters (Issue 10.1)
“These My Fenestrations”; Saint Ann’s Review (Vol. 18, No. 1)
“As the Crow Flies”; Atlanta Review (Spring/Summer 2017)
“Childhood as a Series of Concussions”; Columbia Review (Spring 2017)
“In Shade Her Scars Nearly Vanish”; Columbia Poetry Review (2017)
Swimming Walden Pond”; Tar River Poetry (Spring 2017)
“Bread”; Natural Bridge (Spring 2017)
“Nothing Will Hurry Her”; The Cape Rock (Fall/Winter 2016)
“Reintroducing the Wolf”, “Aubade Approximate April”; The Monarch Review (March 2017)
“Looking Up We See More Than Is There”; Willow Springs (No. 79, Winter 2017)
“Conclave Ahead of the Storm”; Barrow Street (Winter/Spring 2017)
“The Ruins After Dark”; Summerset Review (Winter 2017)
“Last Cherry”; Gold Man Review (Issue 6, 2017)
“The Long Reach”; Tule Review (2017)
“Stier” and “Rein”; Dunes Review (20th Anniversary Issue)
“The Fallen Bridge at Cosumnes”, “The Wind Up Russian Gulch”; California Quarterly (Vol. 42, No. 3)
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize
“The Love of Fire”, “A Wedding in Bee Country”; Chariton Review (Vol. 39, No. 1, Spring/Summer 2016)
“Picnic Day”, “Skin Tags”, “Low Tide, Pigeon Point”; COG (Issue 3, Spring 2016)
“Home Sick” and “On the Death, by Trampling, of a Man in Modoc County”; december (Issue 27.1, Spring/Summer 2016)
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize
“Daylight Saving”; ZYZZYVA (No. 106 Spring/Summer 2016)
“Blueprint for Coop and Run”; Crab Creek Review (Spring 2016)
“Adios Westerner Drive-In”, “Pantoum of a Mild Depression”; Arroyo Literary Review (Spring 2016)
“The Wind Apples”; Sugar House Review (Fall/Winter 2015)
“Radiolaria”; Natural Bridge (Issue 34, Fall 2015)
“Full Disclosure”; Cimarron Review (Issue 193, Fall 2015)
“Anniversary”; Dunes Review (Volume 19:2, Fall 2015)
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize
“In the Forcing House”; Catamaran Literary Reader (Volume 3.3, September 2015)
“A Pasture”; Tule Review (2015)
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize
“The Art of the Drawknife”; Driftwood Press (Volume 2.3, Summer 2015)
“On Being Wakened by a Porcupine in Maine”; Fjords Review Monthly Verse (Feb. 2015)
“Cape Breton Manifesto”, “Sic Transit”; Harpur Palate (Volume 14.2, Winter/Spring 2015)
“Hardpan”, “Longlining”; The Chattahoochee Review (Voume 34.2-3, Fall/Winter 2014)
“West Through Sunflowers”; ZYZZYVA (No. 101, Fall 2014)
“6.9 Off Humboldt Bay”; Ascent (May 2014)
Nominated for Best of the Web
“Rice Burning”; Beloit Poetry Journal (Vol. 64 No. 4, Summer 2014)
“Elk Carry Their Hunger Into the Day”; Tar River Poetry (Vol. 53 No. 2, Spring 2014)
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize
“The Cartographer’s Hymnal” and “The Cold Room”; Barrow Street (Fall 2013)
“A Neighboring Field”; Poetry Now (Nov. 2013)
“Virga”; Tule Review (2001)
“Sestina Near Sunset” and “The Sturgeon”; 2River View (5.4, Summer 2001)
NONFICTION
“No Reasonable Offer Refused”; Book of Matches (Issue 4, Winter 2022)
“Impermanence”; Zone 3 (Vol. 36 No. 1, Spring 2021)
“The Lost Coast; Phoebe (Issue 50.1, January 2021)
“Enigma”; River Teeth (June 8, 2020)
“A Driving Tour of Quaker Graveyards”; Clockhouse (Volume 4, 2016)
“A Ditch Runs Through It”; Utne Reader (September/October 2007); originally published in Sacramento News and Review (April 26, 2007)
Winner, Best Writing Award, California Newspaper Publishers Association
“What Happened to the Time?”; San Francisco Chronicle Magazine (December 30, 2007)
“Our Third River”; Sacramento News and Review (November 3, 2011)
“Domo Arigato Quercus Lobata”; Sacramento News and Review (June 23, 2011)
“Staying Power”; Sacramento News and Review (December 24, 2009)
“On Furlough Friday”; Sacramento News and Review (October 29, 2009)
“I, Timmy”; Sacramento News and Review (September 10, 2009)
“Rust Men”; Sacramento News and Review (March 5, 2009)
“Joe Grogpint”; Sacramento News and Review (October 30, 2008)
“Suicide Ticket”; Sacramento News and Review (July 5, 2007)
PLAYS
The Middle of Nowhere (full-length play)
Winner, 1999 Maxim Mazumdar New Play Competition
Produced in 2000-2001 Season (Feb. 1-25, 2001), Alleyway Theatre, Buffalo, NY
The Treaty at Big Indian (full-length play)
Semi-Finalist, Reva Shiner Full-Length Play Contest
The Road Into Town (one-act play)
Winner, First Stage One-Act Play Contest
Staged reading, FirstStage L.A., Hollywood, CA
Second Place, Moving Arts Premiere One-Act Competition
Love Creek Productions One-Act Festival, Creative Place Theatre, New York
Where I Went (one-act play)
Love Creek Productions One-Act Festival, Theatre Row Studios, New York
Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway Original Short Play Festival, Chernuchin Theatre, New York
Nature (one-act play)
Love Creek Productions One-Act Festival, Harold Clurman Theatre, New York
Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway Original Short Play Festival, Harold Clurman Theatre, New York
Served (one-act play)
Love Creek Productions One-Act Festival, Harold Clurman Theatre, New York
Read Online
Fiction
Ice Flowers from Into the Void
Lake Mary Jane from Atticus Review
Parliament of Owls from SmokeLong Quarterly
Poems
A Wager on Poetry Daily
The Retreat from Gettysburg from River Heron Review
Trout Spawn in White Clouds from Radar Poetry
Under Sandhill Cranes from Split Rock Review
Nonfiction
A Ditch Runs Through It from Utne Reader (originally published in Sacramento News & Review)
The Lost Coast from Phoebe
Enigma from River Teeth