Publications/CV
NOVELS
Szarotka, American Buffalo Books/ Kansas State University (2024)
NOVELLAS
The Magpie Funeral, Querencia Press (2023)
The Toughest Girl in Town, Running Wild Press Novella Anthology (2022)
NOVELETTES
The Laughter of Hyenas At Bay, The Word's Faire "That's Absurd!" Anthology (2024)
STORY COLLECTIONS
The Laughter of Hyenas at Bay, Raging Opossum Press (2025)
SHORT FICTION
Swan Song, The Solitude Diaries (2025)
Fistful of Air, Milwaukee Avenue Messenger (2025)
The Higher the Hair, the Closer to God, Wound Up Literary (2025)
Descent into Teardrop Lake, Ivo Review (2025)
Even Jackals Cry at Night, The Orange Rose (2025)
Cross My Heart and Hope to Die, Stick a Needle in My Cock, Horror Sleaze Trash (2025)
Radiators, Drip Literary Magazine "Heat" Themed Issue (2025)
George Lassos the Moon, New World Writing (2025)
It Wasn't God Who Made Honky-Tonk Angels, The Word's Faire "The Promethean Archives" Anthology (2025)
Misplaced Razors, A Sufferer's Digest (2025)
When it Rains, Blood + Honey (2025)
Spectres in the Rain, Mystic Mind Magazine #22 (2025)
Catholic Guilt, Lowlife Lit Press (2025)
Constrictor, Lowlife Lit Press (2025)
Annotations of a Coma, Raging Opossum Press "Dream FM" Anthology (2025)
The Last King of the Skinheads, BULL Magazine (2024)
They Don't Make Guitar-Music No More, Northwest Indiana Literary Journal (2024)
Go Down Ye Blood-Red Roses, Soundings East/Salem State University (2024)
The Hunting of a Royal Stag, Jimson Weed/UVA Wise (2024)
Lamprey Pie, Grim & Gilded (2024)
Wife of the Automata, Querencia Press "It Always Finds Me" Anthology (2024)
A Dollar Fifty-Nine, 50-Word Stories (2024)
Dirty Old Town, Masks Literary Journal/Columbia College Chicago (2023)
Gynecomastia, Penumbra by Stanislaus State University (2023)
Matryoshka , Farside Review (2023)
Cats and Dogs, BULL Magazine Online (2022)
Edelweiss, Contraposition Volume 4: Nature and Technology (2014)
Rejoice, Crack the Spine (2013)
Our Hearts Burn Out, The Manilla Envelope (2013)
CREATIVE NON-FICTION
Nails in the Coffins, Midcult* (2025)
Other Chicagos, the pub (2025)
Oops! All Failure!, Magazine1 (2025)
Non-Sequitur, La Mosca (2025)
Night at the Roach Palace, Unleash Press (2023)
POETRY
Come Sit by the Fireside, The Beatnik Cowboy (2025)
Overgrown, Bitter Melon Review (2025)
Steam, NeIU Concrete Poetry/Poetry Month Exhibit (2025)
Train Ride Home, Drunken Absurdity Anthology (2012)
Winter Nothingness, Drunken Absurdity Anthology (2012)
AWARDS
Szarotka, winner of the Buffalo Books Prize from Kansas State University/American Buffalo Books (2022)
NOMINATIONS
Go Down Ye Blood-Red Roses, nominated for Pushcart Prize by Soundings East/Salem State University (2024)
SHORTLIST
The Laughter of Hyenas at Bay, shortlisted for The Word's Faire, "That's Absurd!" Anthology Contest (2024)
LONGLIST
Death in the Valley of the Sulfur's Haze, long listed for Fugere Book Prize for Finely Crafted Novellas by Regal House Press (2023)
EDUCATION
Current student of Northeastern Illinois University English Program