I am the author of two full-length short story collections.
You Might Forget the Sky was Ever Blue (forthcoming, September 2019) includes stories about third grade teacher in Baltimore trying to make sense of the 2016 election campaign to students, a teenage sexual assault survivor making his way through a changed world, and a boy is raised to believe he's Hulk Hogan's little brother. This book includes experiments in form with a social conscience, including work originally published in Hobart, Iron Horse Literary Review, Bayou Magazine, Front Porch, Waccamaw, Prime Number Magazine, Drunk Monkeys, Random Sample Review, and Extract[s]. It will be published by Duck Lake Books.
Circus Folk (forthcoming, November 2019) includes linked stories about a self-trained lion tamer., a trapeze artist who falls to her death every night, conjoined twins and the lost love of their lives, and three bearded ladies who converge on the same traveling show. This full-length collection of linked stories explores the inner lives and origins of circus performers, including forays into the speculative and surreal in work originally published with Sequestum, Flapperhouse, Spry Literary Journal, Twisted Vine Literary Arts Journal, Five 2 One Magazine, and others. It will be published by Hoot 'n' Waddle.
I am the author of three chapbooks.
Autopsy and Everything After (forthcoming, 2019) is a collection of flash fiction chronicling the journeys of a professional wrestler, with the occasional foray into the supernatural. This chapbook won The Florida Review's Jeanne Leiby Chapbook Contest (2017-2018).
Distance Traveled (2018) is a hybrid chapbook in which prose poems ostensibly centered on basketball craft a novella about aging, divorce, friendship, and a cross-country road trip.
It is available now from Bent Window Books.
The Leo Burke Finish (2017) is a hybrid chapbook, featuring twenty-three prose poems and a lyric essay that explore professional wrestling and its intersections with my own life and our larger contemporary culture.
The work is published alongside writings from Frankie Metro and Brian Rosenberger for a project called The Three-Way Dance from Gimmick Press.
It's available now via The Gimmick Press Store and Amazon.