Novels
Not On Fire, Only Dying – Twisted Road Publications (available HERE and HERE.)
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• Small Press Distribution (SPD) Fiction Bestseller: July-Aug and Sept-Oct 2015
• Finalist, 2016 Lascaux Prize in Fiction
The Worst Kind of Girl [as yet unpublished]
• Shortlist, Santa Fe Writer’s Project 2022 Literary Awards
• Finalist, Black Lawrence Press 2022 Big Moose Prize
• Longlist, Dzanc Books 2022 Prize for Fiction
• Chapter 1 published at Meet Me @ 19th Street, journal of Arch Street Press
• On writing the book during Covid lockdowns: My Way Through, at Twisted Road Publications
Chapbooks
Whatever Feels Like Home – above/ground press
• Review: Cholla Needles
• Review: Bear Creek Gazette
• Review: Al Kratz blog
Swap / Meet – Space Cowboy Books
• Monkeybicycle’s IF MY BOOK
• Reviews: Read Her Like an Open Book ; Mom Egg Review
• Birth Announcement: Women Writers, Women’s Books
What is Reflected – World Split Open Press
A Fly on The Stonewall – World Split Open Press
Podcast
From the Angels to Snakes – Simultaneous Times, Ep. 14
We Have Your Connie Moody – Simultaneous Times, Ep. 18
The Ebb Somatic – Simultaneous Times, Ep. 29
• featured on the album Music from Simultaneous Times by Phog Masheeen
The Two-Faced Miracle of Justice Father Win – Simultaneous Times, Ep. 54
Interview – Simultaneous Times Podcast, Supplementary Log, Ep. 16
Short Stories, Creative Nonfiction
1 Table, 2 Chairs: ugly – Cholla Needles #12
• Collected in Cholla Needles 2017 Yearbook
About a Month in the Desert – Cholla Needles #12
• Collected in Cholla Needles 2017 Yearbook
Away and Away, Then To: A Memoir – Beautiful Things at River Teeth
• Reprint: The Dreamers Anthology
Believe It, She’s Tried – Cobalt Review
• Finalist, 2014 Frank McCourt Nonfiction Prize
• Updated, with New Epilogue – Women Writers, Women’s Books
Desert, Mother, Home. – Cholla Needles #33
• Performed at Desert Stories XIV, Joshua Tree, CA
From the Angels to Snakes – Simultaneous Times: Volume 2 (Science Fiction Anthology)
Hiccup – PANK
• Ask The Author: Susan Rukeyser
His Venus – Metazen
• Reprint: FlashFiction.net
I, Deconstructed – Barren Magazine [forthcoming]
I didn’t mean to write this. – X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine
ID, please – performed at OUT LOUD: A Cultural Evolution, Long Beach, CA
I-Object.org – Monkeybicycle
I Was a Pink Bath Bomb – Mojave He[art] Review
• Reprint: Digging Through the Fat, Community #48
In Our Isolation – Cholla Needles #69 [forthcoming]
Ingrown Rage – Cliterature
• Reprint: Digging Through the Fat, Community #48
Invasive Species – Atticus Review
• Collected in Get Lit
• Reprint: Kudzu House Quarterly
Just like Lily – Treehouse
Listen For What I Don’t Say – Cholla Needles #33
Mother Lies – Ink, Sweat & Tears
Neighborhood Watch, circa 2009 – Pine Hills Review
On the Edge of Something Else – The Other Room
Our Bloody Secrets – The Mom Egg [print]
• Essay noted in review by The Review Review
• Essay noted in review by NewPages
• Reprint: Three Minus One: Parents’ Stories of Love and Loss [print]
Pathological – TOSKA
• revised and reprinted in Cholla Needles #33
Round of Blues – Sundog Lit
• Included in podcast: Mr. Bear’s Violet Hour Saloon #62
Shock on the Salton Sea – Santa Ana River Review
Some Kind of Comfort – WhiskeyPaper
• Named to Wigleaf’s Top 50 Longlist
• Collected in DISARM: A Gun Sense Anthology
Spray-Tans in the 70s – Eclectic Flash
Squall – SmokeLong Quarterly
• Smoking with: Susan Rukeyser (interview)
Square and Callused – Melusine
Stuck Shut – Foundling Review
Things Break Easily in My Big Hands – Luna Luna Magazine
• Cross-posted at Ravishly
Timeline for Decomposition – Cholla Needles #45
What is Reflected – The View from Here
What’s Your Problem with Joe Biden? – The Weeklings
With Her Sharp, Heavy World – A-Minor Magazine
The Worst Girl’s Best Day – Necessary Fiction
X-Rays are My Souvenirs – Hippocampus Magazine
• Winner, inaugural Remember in November Contest
• Reader’s Choice: November 2011
• Nominated for Pushcart Prize
• Collected in Selected Memories: Five Years of Hippocampus Magazine
Yes, You Can Eat Your Goldfish – Okay Donkey Magazine
You Were the Girl Who – Black Heart Magazine
Multimedia
Lust for Love (5) – Interfictions
Suburban Costumes; Layers to Experience; Morning at Market – Gravel Magazine
The Andersons; Trees – SPACES
After the Cabaret – Star 82 Review
Fiber – Enhance Magazine
Micro Fiction
America, 2016 – 50-Word Stories
Dirty Business – Short Fast & Deadly
HUMAN | NATURE – Cholla Needles #12
Scent Memory – Stone Highway Review
A Time to Refrain from Embracing – Boston Literary Magazine
TWITTER PROSE
This, That
Five Paintings to Put in Front of Your Face When Your Words… – Treehouse
My Way Through – Twisted Road Publications
On deliberately loving ridiculous things – Howlarium
Recipe: Compressed Fiction – Matter Press blog
Short Stories are a Digestible Meal – Atticus Books blog
Interview of Grant Faulkner – Necessary Fiction
Interview of Emily Rinkema – Smokelong Quarterly
Review: Apt Vol 2, Issue 3 – Sundog Lit blog
Review: Fissures by Grant Faulkner – Necessary Fiction
Review: The Other Room by Kim Triedman – Necessary Fiction
Review: Search Party by Valerie Trueblood – Necessary Fiction