Other Writing

“The Last Halloween,” Lit Noir #5, 2012.
Chapter 1 of OPAL, novel in progress, Ohioana Quarterly, Summer/Fall 2011.
“Return to Stillbrook Farm,” Three Coyotes, Summer/Fall 2011, Vol. 1.2.
“Wedding Season,” Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment, Vol. 13.2.
“To Elizabeth Bishop, with Love,” Inkwell, Spring 2011, No. 29.
“Living Arrangements,” American Literary Review, Spring 2011, Vol. 22, No. 1.
“The Ballad Solemn of Lady Malena,” South Dakota Review, Summer 2010, Vol. 48 No. 2.
“Live Model,” Crab Creek Review, 2010 Volume 2.
“How to Speak Czech,” Mason’s Road, 2010.
“The Second Rule of Yoga,” The Northville Review, 2010.

Introduction, The Sophie Kerr Prize Anthology: 2011 & 2012, Washington College, Spring 2013.
“Crossing the Border,” Rust Belt Chic: The Cleveland Anthology, September 2012.
“Your Cat As Your Coworker,” Cat Fancy magazine, September 2012.
“5 Steps to a Solid Article Draft,” The Writer, March 2012.
“Life (and Work) After Rejection,” The Writer, January 2012.
“The Price of Submission: The Evolution of Reading Fees and Their Cost to the Community,” Poets & Writers magazine, November/December 2011.
“Six Surefire Ways to Get the Most Out of Writing Contests,” The Writer, August 2011.
“The Dotted Line: Navigating Literary Magazine Contracts,” Poets & Writers magazine, May/June 2011.
“The Pressure of Young Promise,” Poets & Writers magazine, November/December 2010.
“Sketching a Story,” American Literary Review, February 2011.

Finalist, Barbara Deming Memorial Fund grant, May 2013.
National Gold Award, Short Story Fiction category, 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY Awards), for Living Arrangements.
Silver Award, ForeWord Reviews‘ Book of the Year Awards, for Living Arrangements.
Category Finalist, Eric Hoffer Award, for Living Arrangements
Finalist, Tampa Review Danahy Fiction Prize, for “Q&A at the Film Fest,” 2013.
2011 Ohioana Walter Rumsey Marvin Grant.
2010 G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction, for Living Arrangements.
Runner up, 2010 James Jones First Novel Fellowship, for Opal.
2011 Pushcart Prize nomination, for “Live Model” in Crab Creek Review.
Finalist, 2010 Iron Horse Literary Review single-author collection contest, for “Living Arrangements,” “The Clarinet,” “The Ballad Solemn of Lady Malena,” and “How to Speak Czech.”
Top 25 Winner, Glimmer Train December 2009 fiction open contest, for “Living Arrangements.”
Sophie Kerr Prize, Washington College, 2003. The nation’s largest undergraduate literary award.

Living Arrangements