Writing Instructor • Seeking home for first novel • Currently publishing fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction. Influences: Toni Morrison, William H Gass, Charles Johnson, Dostoevsky, Verlyn Klinkenborg, Flannery O’Connor, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Paul Auster, Annie Proulx, John Gardner, Marlon James, James Wright, Annie Dillard, Charles Portis, Garielle Lutz, Claire Keegan.
Selected work
- Fiction
1
- Nonfiction
3
- Poetry
2
- Other
2
Unyielding Soil: On Stephen G. Bloom’s “Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes: A Cautionary Tale of Race and Brutality”
Los Angeles Review of Books, 2022
Nesting Season
Thimble Literary Magazine, 2021
The New Gary
Broadkill Review, 2021
Wide Awake in an Empty Motel
In Parentheses Literary Magazine, 2021
Three Poems: Cobwebs, The Foghorn, Toward Medallions of Broken Glass
The Antonym, 2021
Steve and the Rolling Sofa
Soundings East, 2021
Fucked at Birth: Recalibrating the American Dream for the 2020s
Los Angeles Review of Books, 2021
Nothing Has Happened Yet
LETTERS Journal, 2022