Fiction and Essays
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Fly Back at Me {e-chap}
Published as an e-chapbook by Sundress Publications, 2017.
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Puzzle Pieces {chapbook}
Co-winner of 2015 Debut Series Chapbook Contest—published by Paper Nautilus Press, 2016.
*Out of print as of June 2023.
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Autism Spectrum News: "Demystifying Autistic Gender", 2022
Fall 2022 issue.
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Third Coast: "Well", 2020
Issue 48.
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Craft: “The Caregiver”, 2020
Original Publication: Chicago Tribune Printers Row, 2016
Nominated for the Pushcart Prize anthology, 2022.
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The South Carolina Review: “The Gap Between Us,” 2018
Volume 50.2, Spring.
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The Literary Review: Puzzle Pieces, 2018
Original Publication: Compose: A Journal of Simply Good Writing, 2015.
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Day One: “An Hour from Home”, 2017
Originally published in Day One, a weekly literary journal dedicated to short fiction and poetry from emerging writers.
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Crab Orchard Review: “Hoodlum“, Volume 21, 2017.
Finalist in COR’s Charles Johnson Fiction Award and Jack Dyer Fiction Prize, 2017.
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New Delta Review: “I Only Remember What You’ve Told Me,” 2016
Issue 7.1
Best of the Net Nomination, 2017.
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Autism Spectrum News: "This is What Autistiphobia Looks Like", 2023
Winter 2023 issue.
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Talking Writing: “Stone” and "Turtle", 2016
Flash fiction.
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The Museum of Americana: “Paper, Clips”, 2015
Nominated for Best of the Net anthology, 2016.
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Lunch Ticket: "Community"
Nominated for Best of the Net anthology, 2016.
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Stirring: “Stand, Step, Stumble”, 2015
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Fiction Southeast: “Wind”, 2015
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Hippocampus Magazine: “Bereaved,” 2015
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Cheap Pop: “Saturday Night”
Honorable Mention in Micro-Fiction Contest, 2015.