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Now, more than ever, the world needs my Battlestar Galactica-themed mocktail recipes.
I'm a novelist, short story writer and essayist. I also write about advertising and fitness.
Because no one has stopped me, I also regularly post glimpses into the personal archives I shouldn't be keeping.
The first is called Dark Midwest: An ever-expanding body of the fictional, sinister, and mysterious secrets spreading from the dark center of the country.
The second is called The Actionator: It's what happens when you drive a child's mind through a thresher of 80s and 90s action movies.
Publications
Novellas
“Cannonfire” Storylandia, winter 2017
“North Dark” Sirens Call Publications, spring 2013
Short Stories
“Just Be a Good Person” Over My Dead Body, fall 2015
“Action Figures” Able Muse, fall 2015
“Destroyer Comes Home” Progenitor, spring 2015
“Big Hard Squall” ThugLit, spring 2015
“Asylum” Toasted Cheese, spring 2015
“Brutus” Buffalo Almanac, spring 2015
“The Hunters” Eunoia Review, spring 2015
“Cursed” Berkeley Fiction Review, spring 2012
“The Hunters” The Sheepshead Review, spring 2012
“The Dragoon” Powers: A Superhero Anthology, Pill Hill Press, November 2010
“They’re My Arms Now” Poor Mojo’s Almanac(k), fall 2008 “The Dragoon” Prick of the Spindle, fall 2008
“Hellry” The North Central Review, spring 2008
“Ghost Summer” The Story Week Reader, fall 2007
Nonfiction
“Mike the Killer” Flashquake, spring 2009
Awards
Cross-functional MVP @ LinkedIn 2024
Cross-functional MVP @ LinkedIn 2023
Best American Mystery Stories 2016, Notable fiction, "Destroyer Comes Home"
“Destroyer Comes Homes” nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Able Muse, winter 2015
“Brutus” Long list, Ropewalk Press Chapbook Contest, University of Southern Indiana, spring 2015
Graduate Teaching Assistant of the Year nomination, spring 2011
Merit Scholarship, Ropewalk Writers Retreat, summer 2010
“The Hunt Club” 2nd Place MVP Award, New Rivers Press, spring 2010
Traveling Fellowship, Southern Illinois University, fall 2009