BOOKS
Troglodyte – Short Story Collection (January 2014)
Hollywood Buckaroo – Novel (October 2012)
Moon Is Cotton & She Laugh All Night – Short Story Collection (January 2010)
AWARDS
A Certain Fire – Short Story – Finalist for The Machigonne Prize – Judge Rick Bass, Published in The New Guard Review, Vol III, 2013
Troglodyte – Short Story Collection – WINNER of the 2012 Elixier Prize (Publication January 2014); Finalist, Sol Books Prose Series Selection; Semi-finalist 2010 Elixir Press Fiction Award; Semi-finalist The Hudson Prize 2010 (Black Lawrence Press)
There Is No Other Way to Do This – Poem – Pushcart Prize Nomination, Anti-, November 2011, Issue No. 9
Hollywood Buckaroo – Novel – WINNER of the 2011 Big Moose Prize, Black Lawrence Press (Publication October 2012); WINNER 2012 USA Best Book Award for General Fiction; Honorable Mention 2012 San Francisco Book Festival; Honorable Mention 2013 Los Angeles Book Festival
Badass – Short Story – WINNER of the 2011 Tusculum Review Fiction Prize – Judge Aimee Bender, Published in The Tusculum Review, Vol 7
Moon Is Cotton & She Laugh All Night – Short Story Collection – USA Books, Fiction: Short Story Finalist 2011; Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist 2011; Eric Hoffer Fiction Award & Montaigne Medal Award Finalist 2011; WINNER 2009 Subito Innovative Fiction Prize (Publication January 2010)
Troglodyte – Short Story – Published New South, Fall 2008; Second Runnerup 2007 Chicago Literary Awards
Every Porpoise Under Heaven, Buckaroo Proper & Adventures in Taxidermy (Novel Excerpts) – 2004 Dana Award Top 10 Finalist in Portfolio (Novel)
Hurtling Toward the Millennium Formerly Known As This – Poem – WINNER First Place Southern Prize for Poetry 1999, The Southern Anthology, Winter 1999/2000
How to Be a Perfect Slut – Poetry Collection – Perennial Semi-Finalist: Elixir Press First Book Prize 2003, Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize 2003, Crab Orchard First Book Prize 2002, Akron Poetry Prize 2000, Pleiades Press First Book Prize 1999
Every Porpoise Under Heaven – Novel – Honorable Mention First Annual Tupelo Press Fiction Award 2001; WINNER First Prize Washington Award for Fiction 1996
How to Be a Perfect Slut – Flash Fiction – First Prize, The Berkeley Fiction Review 1998 Sudden Fiction Contest
PUBLICATIONS
Short/Flash Fiction
Help Me Find My Killer – Rough Magick Anthology, Edited by Francesca Lia Block & Jessa Marie Mendez, December 2015
A Certain Fire – The New Guard Review, Volume 3, 2013
Call It A Hat – Art From Art Anthology (Modernist Press), July 2011; The Pinch, Vol 27, Issue 1, Spring 2007
Gneiss – Quiddity: International Journal and Public Radio Program, June 2011
Chinese – West Wind Review (Southern Oregon University), 2008; The Griffin, Fall 2009
Gardenland – Another Chicago Magazine, No 49, Fall 2009
Spontaneous Light – Phantasmagoria, Vol 8 No 1, Spring/Summer 2008
Troglodyte – New South, Fall/Winter 2007, Vol 1 No 1
Glossolalia – Whiskey Island Magazine, Issue 50, Spring 2006
Superbaby Saves Slugville – North Dakota Quarterly, Summer 2007; Shortlisted, Flame Books Short Story Competition 2004
National Geographic – Be Which Magazine, Winter 2006; Rio Grande Review, January 2004
Help Me Find My Killer – Elixir, Vol 5, No. 2, 2006
A All New Life – Semifinalist 1997 Tara Fellowship for Short Fiction
The Bigness of Tortoises – Honorable Mention, The Berkeley Fiction Review 1997 Sudden Fiction Contest; Published New Stone Circle, Paper Boat Press
Xmas of Love – First Light, Poems, Stories and Essays of the Winter Holiday Season, 1997
Poetry
Sunday; The Last Sister – Literal Latte, Winter 2013
There Is No Other Way to Do This – Anti-, November 2011, Issue No. 9
The Last Sister; Yes, Daisy – Cimarron Review, Spring/Summer 2011
Sunday – Apalachee Review 61, Spring 2011
Mammalia – The Broome Review, Spring 2011, Issue No 4
Questionnaire – Eclipse, Vol 21, Fall 2010
Desert Cycle – Crab Creek Review, 2010: Issue 2
Turn Away – Borderlands, Texas Poetry Review, Spring/Summer 2010
Sunday – The Chaffin Journal 2010
Dear Fat Oriole in the Red Bottlebrush – The Hurricane Review, Vol I Issue 8, 2010
Parade Day, 1987 – Pearl, No 41, Fall/Winter 2009
Turn Away – Poetry Flash, September 2009
Progress – Freshwater Tenth Anniversary Issue, May 2009
Verbatim – Ellipsis, Vol 45, Spring 2009
Invincible – Cadillac Cicatrix, March 2009
Progress – Freshwater, No 10, 2009
Swallow – Coe Review, Vol 39, No 1, Fall 2008
Kingdom-Minded – Karamu, Vol XX, No 2, Spring 2007
crimson & clover – Cairn 44 The New St. Andrews Review, 2009
Rhetoric of Flight – Nimrod International Journal, Vol 50, No 2, Spring 2007
Paper Covers Rock – Zyzzyva, Vol XXIII, No 3, Winter 2007
Mentor – Carquinez Poetry Review, Vol 4, Issue 4, Winter 2006
Cletus Loves Donatella – Permafrost, Vol 28, Summer 2006; ep;phany
When I Am Dead I Will Bury Myself – Watchword, Issue 9, 2006
A Triptych of Urban Saints – PacificREVIEW: A West Coast Annual Review, 2005-2006
7 Shirts – Porcupine, Vol 9 Issue 1, 2005
The Dalai Lama Came to Dinner – The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, Winter 2005
St. Hatrack, Pescadero – The Laurel Review, Vol 39, No 1, Winter 2005
B Is for Botticelli, Gauguin’s Wife – The Madison Review, Fall 2004
Substitute Freedom – Crucible, Vol 40, Fall 2004
In the Convent Garden – Berkeley Poetry Review, Spring 2004
It’s Like Picasso, Far From Home and Okay with Dying – Eureka Literary Magazine, Vol 12, No 2, Spring 2004
Far from Home and Okay with Dying – Willow Review, Spring 2004
I Would Like to Think That Possibilities Are Endless – The Baltimore Review, Winter/Spring 2004
I Would Like to Think That Possibilities Are Endless – Wisconsin Review, Vol 38, Issue I, Fall 2003
Far from Home and Okay with Dying, Intersection – The Laurel Review, Vol 37, No 2, Summer 2003
No. 24, Route 5 – The Poet’s Page, 1996
Heartspeech; Subway Sub-Rosa; Look at Sky, Wait for Love – Exquisite Corpse #55
Look at Sky, Wait for Love – Diabolical Clits 1995