Vita

Education

University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Bachelor of Fine Arts: Fiction.

University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Masters of Fine Arts: Poetry

Publications:

Poetry

“We Call This Thing Between Us Love” (full-length collection) – Main Street Rag (2010)

“Requiem for Iron Man Vasquez” (sonnet crown) appears in Volume III, Issue 1 of Measure

“Thinly Veiled, Young Man Comes to Me Seeking a Friendly Face” and “Issue #100: Death in the Family!” appear in Chautauqua

“Issue #1: The Secret Origins of Young Man,” “Upon Visiting the Veterans Hospital” and “An Open Letter from the Red Skull” appear in the SNReview

“Set, Egyptian God of Darkness and Evil…” and “Benjamin ‘Biggers’ Kane:…” appear in Measure

“The 47 Seconds Between LA & NY,” “Too Slow for Escape: A Letter to Young Man,” and “Young Man: In Reference to That Final Act of Villainy—Death” appear in Prick of the Spindle

“From Death Row, an Interview with a Wolf” appears in Dante’s Heart

“The Thundergod’s Daughter I. At Breakfast” (poetry) published in 2007 Kakalak Anthology of Carolina Poets

“I, Clark” appears in Atlantis

“All Hallow’s City” appears in the 2006 Kakalak Anthology of Carolina Poets

“Recurring Fission” published in Portals

“Onto the Path” (poetry) published in Nota Bene

Fiction

“The Dream That Was Arcadia” published in Thomas Wolf Review, Feb 2008.

“Paper Bags & Angels” published in the Spartan

“Penny” published in Nota Bene

“Southern German” published in Portals

Nonfiction

“Down Highway 74” published in Prick of the spindle.

“Writing Within the System” published in the North Carolina Writer’s Network Newsletter

Awards & Scholarships

2009 Pushcart Prize Nominee

Philip Furia Award

Philip Gerard Graduate Fellowship

Margaret Shannon Morton Fellowship

“Ariels” (poetry chapbook) finalist in the NC Writer’s network Randall Jarrell/Harpersprints Poetry Chapbook Competition

BFA Thesis Award Nominee—University of North Carolina at Wilmington

Reynolds Scholarship Award for Fiction