WRITING

PUBLISHED WORK

— “The Cycle of History (and What We Leave Out),” the Ohio #Midwessay in Essay Daily, April 5, 2021.

— “Grief Work,” essay in VIDA Review, Issue 5, Jan. 5, 2021.

— “Red is the color of August,” poem in The Dayton Anthology from Belt Publishing, Dec. 1, 2020.

— “Prompt #93 – The Why,” essay featured on The Isolation Journals, July 21, 2020.

— “Roadmap to a Fire,” essay in Pigeon Pages, Feb. 24, 2020.

— “My Brother Died from a Heroin Overdose,” essay in Catapult, Feb. 14, 2018.

— “A Letter on Grief,” hybrid nonfiction, The Fanzine, Oct. 2017.

— “Of Blood,” essay, Ohioana Quarterly, Fall 2017. You can purchase copies here.

—  “I Am Not the Girl You’re in Love With,” essay in Flights literary magazine, Fall 2017. (It first appeared on my Medium.com page; you can read there as well.)

— “30 things I learned in 30 years,” Essay on Medium.com, May 2016.

 — “Of Blood,” Essay in Rappahannock Review, August 2014.

 — “Body Map: Ears,” Essay in The Fanzine, June 2014.

FICTION

— “On the Need for Souvenirs,” monologue, performed in “All the Sex Monologues” presented by PUSH Dayton at Club Masque, Nov. 10-11, 2017.

— “The Haunt of Santa Fe” (Fiction), in Hobart, June 2012. Featured by Dave Cotrone on Crazytown.

— “Salted Wounds” (Fiction), [PANK] Magazine, April 2012. Featured by Vouched Books HERE and HERE.

— “The lake in Francine Prose’s Goldengrove” (Flash Fiction), Let’s Hang, Nov. 28, 2011.

— “I Am Speaking the Language” (Fiction), Used Furniture Review, October 10, 2011.

— “Poste restante, part 1” (Fiction/guest blog), Kaffe in Katmandu, June 24, 2011.

— “A Tiny Love Story, Told in Triplicate” (Fiction), on HitRECord, September 2012.

ESSAYS & NONFICTION

— “Grief Work,” essay in VIDA Review, Issue 5, Jan. 5, 2021.

— “My Brother Died from a Heroin Overdose,” essay in Catapult, Feb. 14, 2018

— “A Letter on Grief,” hybrid nonfiction, The Fanzine, Oct. 2017.

— “I Am Not the Girl You’re in Love With,” Essay on Medium.com, June 2016.

— “30 things I learned in 30 years,” Essay on Medium.com, May 2016.

 — “Top 10 Books of 2013: Ashley Bethard,” in Specter Magazine, December 2013.  

— “Albums of our Lives: Shooter Jennings’ Put the O Back in Country” (Essay), The Rumpus, August 12, 2011.

— “Last Book I Loved, Goldengrove” (Essay), The Rumpus, May 4, 2011.

— “Here’s What Death Means for a Squirrel” (Lyric Essay), Peripheral Surveys, May 2, 2011.

— “Readers Report Back From…Neighborhood” on The Rumpus, Jan. 3, 2011 (pg. 7).

— “This Is Not A Pipe” (Essay), Hot Metal Bridge, University of Pittsburgh, Spring 2010.

—  “Fixed Points in the Universe” (Essay), Sea Giraffe, March 2, 2011.

— “The Unexamined Fact is Like a Rattlesnake” (Essay), Specter Literary Magazine, November 7, 2011.

— “On Seeing ‘Red’: Or, Why I’m Selfish When It Comes To Art” (Essay), Specter Literary Magazine, Jan. 23, 2012.

— “Do It With Mourning: The Merits of Making a Mess” (Column), Specter Literary Magazine, Oct. 19, 2011.

— “X-Men: First Class & Inception: What Films Lend to Writing” (Column), Specter Literary Magazine, October 6, 2011.

— “On Magical Writing and a Gypsy Named Kerouac” (Column), Specter Literary Magazine, September 19, 2011.

AWARDS & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

— Recipient of the 2017 Ohioana Walter Rumsey Marvin Grant

— “The Haunt of Santa Fe”, fiction in Hobart, was featured by Dave Cotrone on Crazytown.

— “Salted Wounds”, Fiction in [PANK] Magazine, featured by Vouched Books HERE and HERE.

— “This Is Not A Pipe” selected for “Best of Hot Metal Bridge” anthology; Fall 2011.

— “I Am Speaking the Language” (Fiction; published at Used Furniture Review) selected as a Fwriction Review “Story of the Day,” October 10, 2011.

— “This Is Not A Pipe” nominated by Hot Metal Bridge for the Dzanc Books “Best of the Web 2011” Anthology.

— Runner-up, “Shape in a Misshapen World” Festival of the Arts literary contest in prose for my nonfiction piece, “This is Not a Pipe,” May 2009.

— Recipient of Ashland University Undergraduate Creative Writing Award in Prose, April 2008.