Nonfiction

I'm thrilled to announce that my collection of essays, Letters to Ray Bradbury, will be published by Aqueous Press in 2014.
• "What Would Aldous Huxley Say About Our Always-Connected Society?,"Slate (Jan 2013)
• "Implanting Memories like in Total Recall: Could it Happen?"Slate (July 2012)
• "Could the Earth’s Rotation Really Slow Down Like It Does in the New Novel The Age of Miracles?"Slate (June 2012)
• "Heartbrake," Praxis Magazine (April 2012)
• "Should've Known Better," Praxis Magazine (September 2011)
• "Gringo's Dilemma," Praxis Magazine (April 2011)
• "How I Spent My Free Will," Minnetonka Review (Winter 2011)
• "Finding Fathers," Ducts (Dec 2010)
• "Making Luck," (page 32-35) Paradigm (Sept 2010)
• "The War and the Roses," Guernica (Feb 2010)
• "Letters to Ray Bradbury," Konundrum (Sept 2009)
• "Tiny Spirits in Paradise," Sonic Clash (Sept 2009)
• "Fighting the Sunday Blues with Albert Camus," Briarpatch (Sept 2009)
• "Always Something There to Remind Me," Sonic Clash (July 2009)
• "Boogie Wonderland," Sonic Clash (July 2009)
• "The New Pink,"Sonic Clash (June 2009)
• "Nothing Like It Was In My Room," Sonic Clash (May 2009)
• "The More Things Change," Sonic Clash (May 2009)
• "Who Stole Thievery?" Sonic Clash (March 2009)
• "Dear Radiohead," Sonic Clash (Feb 2009)
• "Electroshock to the Soul," Cause and Effect (Summer 2008)
• "Leaving the Monkey House," New York Inquirer (2007)
• "Meet You at Four Last Thursday," New York Inquirer (2007)
• "Unitarian Universalism: Blasphemy or Enlightenment?" New York Inquirer (2007)
• "Rubber the Wrong Way," New York Inquirer (2007)
• "Never-Never Land," New York Inquirer (2007)
• "It’s a Top Ten List World," New York Inquirer (2007)
• "Till Death Do Us Part," New York Inquirer (2006)
• "Literature: Learn It, Live It, Love It? Fuck it," New York Inquirer (2006)
• "Learning How to Learn," ArtsBeat Faculty Newsletter (2005)
• "Digitization of First Nations Artifacts," ArtsBeat Faculty Newsletter (2005)
• "Travelling to Uruguay," Zink Magazine (2005)


     Fiction/flash fiction

• "A Sort of Homecoming," Barely South Review (Sept 2012)
• "Falling Short," Northwind Magazine (April 2012)
• I Went to Psychotherapy and All I Got was This Lousy T-Shirt," Defenestration (Sept 2009)
• "Cousin Paul and Mr. T," Defenestration (May 2009)
• "Imaginary Numbers," Zone 3 (Fall 2008)
• "What’s Missing from the Internet," Carousel (June 2007)
• "Variations on a Second Head," Carousel (June 2007)
• "The Front Line," RK-VR-Y Magazine (2005)
• "The First Time," RK-VR-Y Magazine (2005) • "The Champion," Back Alley Arts Organization (2004)


     Poetry

• Self Park, an ekphrastic collaboration (Summer 2008)
• "The Wall," and "Coming Down With It," Babel Fruit (Summer 2008)
• "Cousin Paul and Mr. T," The Means (2006)
• "Salute the General and Her Zygomatic Process," poetry chapbook, University of Arkansas Press (2003)
• "So God Chose County Cork," Aux Arc Review (2003)
• "Andrea," Aux Arc Review (2003)
• "Purple Lilies," Gin Bender Review (2003)
• "The Things We Wonder When the Phone Rings," Sycamore Review (2002)
• "Backpack Full of Emptiness," Friction Magazine (2001)
• "Our House," Adirondack Review (2001)
• "Notes Passing," Aileron Review (2001)
• "Eggplant," "Volunteer," "Visions of My Father," "Rowan," "Our House," Cafι Shapiro Anthology (2000)
• "The Burning," In Posse Review (2000)
• "Untranslatable," Current Magazine Contest Winner (2000)


     Awards

• Somerville Arts Council fellowship grant (2012) • Wesleyan Writers' Conference Scholarship (2011)
• George William Kenwood Memorial Scholarship in Creative Writing, Vancouver BC (2005)
• CBC Television Jim Burt Prize in Creative Writing, Vancouver BC (2005)
• Chapbook contest winner, Aux Arc Review (2003)
• Virginia Voss writing award, University of Michigan (2000)
• Hopwood Undergraduate Award in poetry, University of Michigan (1998)

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