Short Work

Flash Fiction

Rhythm & Bones (April 20, 2019): How to Suffocate a Shark

Rhythm & Bones (December 30, 2018): Shadows Cannot be Seen in the Pitch-Black [digital] or [online]

Fathom (July 12, 2018): Though the Earth Gives Way

Newfound (March 21, 2017/June 21, 2018): One Woman’s Junk^[5] [print] or [digital] or [online]

Crack the Spine (June 12, 2018): While Taking Photographs in Nepal

Apparition Literary Magazine (April 26, 2018): Phoenix Fire Fight^[4]

The Bookends Review (April 9, 2018): Abdication

Laurel Magazine (January 24, 2018): Disembodied

Varnish Journal (January 13, 2018): Predator

Allegory Ridge (August 16, 2017): Independence Day

Obra/Artifact (January 2017): Forceplay

Vestal Review (July 2016): Trace [print] or [online]

Dually Noted (July 18, 2016): Spacefall

Incunabula, Good Morning (Spring 2012/November 1, 2015): Cincinnati Men [print] or [digital]

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Short Stories

Nice Cage (October 28, 2018): All the Waves Resound

Barren Magazine (October 20, 2018): Buried in the Ground

F(r)iction, The Other Stories (September 21, 2015/January 6, 2016): When Continents Collide [print] or [digital] or [audio]

Incunabula (Spring 2013): Vibrant

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Creative Nonfiction

Incunabula, Garbanzo Literary Journal (Spring 2013/May 2, 2015): A Death in the Family/Old Betsy’s Obituary^[2]

GERM Magazine (December 23, 2014): Presents of Pajamas

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Poetry

STARK (August 2016):  War Song^[3]

Incunabula, GERM Magazine (Spring 2012/November 17, 2014): How to Love Again^[1]

Incunabula (Spring 2013): Unintentional Nudist

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Magazine Articles

GERM Magazine:

• The Spirit of Salem College: A Glimpse into the Oldest Women’s College in the Nation
• Slavery, Environmental Stability, and Poverty: A Conscious Consumer’s Look at Fair Trade
  
• What the ‘Dragon Age’ Series Can Teach Us about Religion
  
• The Flower and Willow World: Recognizing Historical and Modern Geisha
  
• The Benefits of Backyard Gardening
  
• Real, Fantastic: An Examination of Magical Elements in Two Books
  
• ALL ARTICLES at GERM Magazine

Salt Magazine:

• Life on the farm at Young’s Jersey Dairy 
• A visit to the past (I took some of the photographs)

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Newspaper Articles

Wilmington News Journal: no longer available online, my reporting can be found in the archives.

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Blog Posts & Book Reviews

Blue River Blog:

• Articulating Agony: The Writer as Antihero

Change Seven Magazine:

• 10 Novels That Made 2016 More Bearable

F(r)Online:

• Book Review: All the Birds in the Sky—Charlie Jane Anders
  
• Book Review: The Gloaming—Melanie Finn
  
• Literary Journal Review: Conjunctions: 67, Other Aliens
  
• Book Review: The Punch Escrow—Tal M. Klein

Green Briar Review:

• What We Stand to Lose: A Review of Jeanne Althouse’s Boys in the Bank

Teen Librarian Toolbox (School Library Journal):

• Dark Shadows in a Glittering Metropolis: Magic and Religion in Jaclyn Dolamore’s Dark Metropolis Series
  

Tipster:

• Carnival, a Global Celebration

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Interviews

Blue River:

• Wynter Returns: A Chat with Meredith Spears on Writing Her Newest Novel
  
• When the Lights Go Out: An Interview with Chloe Livaudais
  
• On Crossing the Canadian Border: An Interview with Casey Whitworth

Change Seven Magazine:

• Naturally Political: An Interview with Ann Pancake

Tethered By Letters Author Q&A Series:

• Molly Rose Quinn
  
• Tyler Barton

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Awards

• [4] 2018: Winner of the Apparition Lit April Flash Fiction Contest
• [2] 2013: North Carolina College Media Association Statewide College Media Awards: First Place for Nonfiction in a Literary Magazine
• 2013: President’s Prize for Creative Writing, Salem College 
• [1] 2012: Katherine B. Rondthaler Award for Poetry, Salem College

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Honors

• [5] 2018: Included in Newfound’s Best of Vo. 8 Print Issue
• 2015-2017: Presidential English (half) Fellowship, Creighton University
• [3] 2016: Long-listed for Wisehouse International Poetry Award
• 2009-2013: The Presidential Scholarship, Salem College
• 2012: Student production with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company