Published Works

Books

Story Collections

  • In Just the Right Light – Unsolicited Press (order here)
  • Lost in the Furrows – Cowboy Jamboree Press (order here)
  • Houses Burning and Other Ruins – Shotgun Honey Press (order here)

Novels

  • Undone Valley – Cowboy Jamboree Press (order here)

Poetry Collections

  • So Fast, So Close – Close to the Bone Publishing (order here)

Short Fiction

Patchwork – Sanitarium

Portraits of the Dead and Dying – Literally Stories

The Thirteenth Step – New World Writing (nominated for a Pushcart Prize 2015)

The Tunnel – Sanitarium

Something Special – Floyd County Moonshine

Running – Literally Stories

Trapper’s Creek – Elm Leaves Journal: Dirt Edition (nominated for a Pushcart Prize 2016)

Changing Key – Sanitarium

The Long Drive Home – Thuglit

Letting Go – Cowboy Jamboree

The Call – Floyd County Moonshine

Suicidal Birds – Down in the Dirt

All Things Come Around – Thuglit: Last Writes (reprinted in The Best American Mystery Stories 2017)

Houses Burning – Mystery Tribune (named among the Other Distinguished Mystery Stories of 2017 in The Best American Mystery Stories 2018)

Tally Ho – Tough (reprinted in the anthology Tough 2)

Recompense – EconoClash Review

Hunting Season – Dime Show Review

You Get So Lonely – Anti-Heroin Chic

Small Change – Mystery Tribune

King of the Blue Rose – Tough

The Ghost of Green Valley – Reckon Review (nominated for a Pushcart Prize 2021)

So Nice to See You – Rock and a Hard Place, Issue 6

Flashes & Hybrids

Winnipeg; Street Kid’s Guide to Coming Up Aces in Columbus, Ohio and So Fast, So Close – Anti-Heroin Chic

Across State Lines – Shotgun Honey

South of Nogales – Jellyfish Review

Feet from the Salish Sea – Flash Fiction Magazine

Talking and Standing Still – The Vignette Review

Flares – New World Writing

Elegy for and Uncle(?) – Kentucky Review

Training – Dime Show Review

Leather Lizzy Motherfucker – (b)OINK

For Love – Elm Leaves Journal: Blues Edition

Stairmaster – Open: Journal of Arts and Letters

Strays – Jelly Bucket

Drink – Ghost Parachute (reprinted in Ghost Parachute: 105 Flash Fiction Stories)

Who Shot Goldie Jones? – Mystery Tribune 

Notes on the Irretrievable Dream; Dream Poem: Taos NM; In Which You Feel a Series Coming on; The New Kid; and Mama – Eunoia Review

Nova – Midway Journal (nominated for Best Small Fictions 2019)

Captain – Spelk

Dust and Ash – Rue Scribe

Creative Nonfiction

Expecting – Bending Genres

Disarticulated Life – Defenestrationism

Sad Beauty – Jenny

Grit Lit: It’s Bigger than Barnyards and Moonshine – Cowboy Jamboree

On the Run, Returning – Bending Genres (reprinted in the 2019 Bending Genres Anthology)

Poetry

Flagstaff and Kenora – Jump: International Journal of Modern Poetry

Where You Might Have Been When They Took Their Last Breaths – (b)OINK Zine

Before She Stopped Living – Gordon Square Review

This is Why You Need Them – The Bookends Review

Road Work – Anomaly Literary Journal

Swing Shifts and Doubles – Ohio’s Best Emerging Poets Anthology 2017

Riding Out #1 and Education – Anti-Heroin Chic

January Man – Rat’s Ass Review

Seattle – Switchblade Magazine

Part of What We Pass Down Is Silence and Shoveling Snow – Volney Road Review

Bastard Girl of Tampa Ray – Switchblade Magazine 

We Were in the Sun – Neologism Poetry Journal (nominated for Best of the Net 2019)

Death in the Courtyard of the House Where Dennis Hopper Lived – Ohio’s Best Emerging Poets Anthology 2019

Back in the States – The Lake

An Armor – Night Music Journal

Missoula and Cheyenne – Live Nude Poems

Swing Shifts and Doubles – Ohio’s Best Emerging Poets Anthology 2020

Greyhound, Layover, Reno, and In the Shadow of Circling Birds – Punk Noir Magazine

How Far From; Winter Wedding at the VFW; Before the Mind and Body Fail, as Is Their Fate, and Poem for the Going and Gone – Punk Noir Magazine

Poor Kid’s Obituary – Anti-Heroin Chic

That Night I Left Work with a Pocketful of Cash on Fire – Live Nude Poems

In Dreams – Cloves Literary