Writer | Editor
Novel
Deliver Thy Pigs (Malarkey Books 2022)
It’s been a year since defiant vandal Marco Polo Woodridge lost his father in a gruesome factory accident at J. Lowell’s Meat Factory, the noxious Midwestern pork giant that employs the majority of Prairie Ridge, Illinois’s residents. Despite the smell of death in the air—both from the lingering memory of Charles Woodridge and the thousands of pigs slaughtered daily at J. Lowell’s—the people of Prairie Ridge live in a state of regretful acceptance of the company’s hold on the community. That is, until Marco Polo teams up with Susan and Margaret Banks, the mother-daughter duo committed to restoring Illinois’s native tree population and sticking it to the man all the while. With grit, humor, and Midwestern charm, Pigs examines what happens when you bite the hand that feeds, and what happens when that hand is the very one destroying you.
Chapbook
In the Line of a Hurricane, We Wait (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2019)
Facing the imminent threat of a hurricane, six Florida residents ignore the call to evacuate and anchor themselves against the torrents of wind and rain at home. They expect the storm to batter their property—but they don't expect the ways its currents rearrange their lives. Pocketed together, a once-grandmother learns once again what it means to care for teenagers, a sister realizes her worst fear when her younger brother goes missing in the night, and an immigrant challenges the sea. On the other side of town, a sailor faces his empty home, wounded criminal at his side—a criminal wondering just how long she can outrun her mistakes. In the course of a day, this crew must reconcile what the storm has unburied—and, ultimately, the future paths it leaves in its wake.
Fiction
"The Righteous Shall Be Called to Dance," Bull (2024)
"The Day of Connection," Roi Fainèant Press (2024)
"Used Couches," Roi Fainèant Press (2023)
"The Colonel and the Cargo," Death of Print (2023)
"The Water Runneth Over," Cotton Xenomorph (2023)
"Blessings for the Birds That Left," The Islandia Journal (Volume 2, Issue 2, 2022)
"God Doing Electrical Work," Variant Literature (Issue 8, 2022)
"Above the In-Between," McCoy's Monthly (Volume 2, Issue 1, 2021)
"Boarding for Tampa, Florida," Complete Sentence (2021)
"Paper Teeth" & "Blurry Exit Signs," Posit Journal (Issue 27, 2021)
"Someone Like You," Ab Terra Flash Fiction (Issue 3, 2021)
"Taking Root," Flyway Journal of Writing & Environment (2021)
“Rounds of Kevin Bacon,” Ghost City Review (2019)
“How the Shore Rushes In,” EcoTheo Review (Spring 2020)
“Sexy George Washington,” Maudlin House (2019)
“An Armadillo Named Saint Peter,” Emerson Review (Volume 48, 2019)
“The Loop,” Breakwater Review (Issue 22, 2018)
“The Labyrinthine Land,” saltfront (Issue 6, 2018)
“A To B,” Sin Fronteras/Writers Without Borders (Issue 22, 2018)
“Ash Millard and the Museum of Art and History,” Bitterzoet Magazine (2016)
Poetry
“Loquat Sunset,” Leaves of Loquat (Volume 5) and first-prize winner at the 2019 Florida Loquat Literary Festival
“The Germ,” Freshwater Literary Journal (2017)
“River Logging,” Jelly Bucket (Issue 7, 2017)
“Clouds Like Ships in the Morning Sky,” The Albion Review (2017)
Nonfiction
"Pete Buttegieg Won't Invest in Ghost Trains," Daily Drunk Magazine (2023)
“More than I Can Chew,” Complete Sentence (2022)
“What Does Your Town Smell Like,” Malarkey Books (2022)
“The Mystery of Mashed Potatoes and Joe Jr. in While You Were Sleeping,” Daily Drunk Magazine (2021)
“Atlantic Whistle,” Places to Stand in Florida (located near Jupiter Beach, Florida)
“Beyond This Shore,” Living Waters Review
Interviews
The Florida Book Club podcast (Season 7, Ep. 2, 2023)
Interview with Donald Ryan, Full Stop (February 21, 2023)