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Selected Publications

Chapbooks:
  • "The Lawless River: Stories," Red Bird Chapbooks, January 2016 (online)
  • "Trying Not to Write Roadkill: Poems," Ghost City Press, forthcoming 

Flash Fiction:
  • "Memaw's Story," Looking at Appalachia, September 2018 (online)
  • "Pigeonblood," The Fourth River: Tributaries, April 2018 (online)
  • “The World that Thinks the Worst,” New South Journal, January 2018 (online)
  • "Planting by Design," "A Naming Story," & "After A Couple Years, You Can Distinguish All the Sirens," FRiGG Magazine, Issue 49, Spring/Summer 2017 (online)
  • "You Know by Instinct," Reservoir Literary, Issue 3 (January 2017) (online)
  • "These Are The Things That They Know," SHARK REEF, Issue 29, (January 2017) (online)
  • “Bowlcuts,” Devil’s Lake, Fall 2016 (January 2017) (online)
  • "No Hiding Place," Stirring: A Literary Collection​, October 2016 (online)
  • "An Evening Appointment," Bear Review, Issue 4 (March 2016) (online)
  • "Crime Spree," Tin House: Flash Fridays, January 2015 (online)
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Short Fiction:
  • "Carry Me Back to the Mountainbirds," Entropy Magazine, (September 2018) (online)
  • "The Funeral March," Appalachian Heritage, Winter 2018: Vol. 46, Issue 1 (February 2018) (print)
  • "The Blue Heron," Still: The Journal, Issue 22 (October 2016) (online)
  • "Ice Storm, Gray Smoke, and You," Permafrost Magazine, Volume 38.1 (Winter 2016) (print)
  • "Darkness Will Settle Over Louisville," Southwest Review, Issue 100 Vol. 3 (September 2015) (print)
  • “St. Anthony's Meatloaf,” The Adroit Journal, Issue 11 (Spring 2015) (online)
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Poetry:
  • "Diagnosis," "Arithmetic," and "Diaspora," Still: the Journal, Volume 33 (Summer 2020)
    "When Something Tears It Down," Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts, Volume 25 (Summer 2020)
    "Eviction Notice" & "When They Ask Me..." Chattahoochee Review, Volume 39.2-3 (Fall/Winter 2020)
    "Birds are Vanishing..." and "Taxonomy," Biscuit Root Drive, Dec 2019
  • "Frightening," Bayou Magazine, Issue 70 (February 2019) (print)
  • "Appalachian Kaddish 3," Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, Volume 21 (October 2018)  (print)
  • "Watch Me Kick the Devil," SHANTIH Journal, Issue 3.1 (Summer 2018) (online)
  • "Love Poem While Driving Down Kentucky Highway 52," storySouth, Issue 45 (Spring 2018) (online)
  • 'I Love the Ground,' 'Ode to Two Margies,' & 'Sometimes I Think They Would Be Glad,' New Madrid Journal,  Winter 2018: The Eclipse Issue (March 2018) (print)
  • "To Make Lasting Impressions," Rogue Agent, Issue 20 (November 2016) (online)

Flash Non-Fiction:
  • "A Form of Public Assistance," Barely South Review, Vol. 10.2 (April 2019) (print)
  • "Another Grocery List," Beecher's Magazine (now, Landlocked Magazine), Issue 8 (print)
  • “Shopping Habits,” Signal Mountain Review, Volume 1 Issue 1, (May 2018) (online) + (interview)
  • "Grocery Stories," Hippocampus Magazine​, March 2017 (online)
  • "Shopping List," CHEAP POP, March 2015 (online)
  • "I Am Grocery Shopping,” Hobart, October 2014 (online)

Selected Awards & Contests:
  • 2018 Denny C. Plattner Award in Fiction, Appalachian Heritage
  • 2018-2019 Kentucky Emerging Artist Award, Kentucky Arts Council
  • "You Know By Instinct," Finalist, Best Small Fictions 2018

Reviews of:
  • Natalie Sypolt's collection of short stories "The Sound of Holding Your Breath" (West Virginia University Press) in the Journal of Appalachian Studies​ (print)
  • Rebecca Gayle Howell's poetry collection "American Purgatory" (Eyewear Press) in Green Briar Review (March 2019) (online)
  • Tasha Cotter's chapbook of poems "Girl in the Cave" (Tree Light Books) in Heavy Feather Review (December 2016) (online)
  • Karen Craigo's poetry collection "No More Milk' (Sundress Publications) in Cleaver Magazine (online)
  • Lee Passarella's poetry collection "Redemption" in Southern Literary Review (online)

For a full listing, check out my CV.

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