What I’ve Published

Novels

The Worst Kind of Girl [coming Spring 2024, Braddock Avenue Books]
•  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

Not On Fire, Only Dying – Twisted Road Publications
More info HERE. Available HERE.
• Small Press Distribution (SPD) Fiction Bestseller: July-Aug and Sept-Oct 2015
• Finalist, 2016 Lascaux Prize in Fiction

Chapbooks

NEW! Utility Location (Bottlecap Press)

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
• Review: Read Her Like an Open Book
• Review: Mom Egg Review
• Birth Announcement: Women Writers, Women’s Books

What is ReflectedWorld Split Open Press

A Fly on The StonewallWorld Split Open Press

Micro/Flash Fiction & Creative Nonfiction

1 Table, 2 Chairs: uglyCholla Needles #12  
Collected in Cholla Needles 2017 Yearbook

A Hymn for Us Heretics Unleash Lit #1

A Time to Refrain from Embracing Boston Literary Magazine

About a Month in the Desert Cholla Needles #12
Collected in Cholla Needles 2017 Yearbook

America, 2016 50-Word Stories

Away and Away, Then To: A MemoirBeautiful Things at River Teeth
• Reprint: The Dreamers Anthology

Believe It, She’s TriedCobalt Review
• Finalist, 2014 Frank McCourt Nonfiction Prize
• Updated, with New Epilogue – Women Writers, Women’s Books

Better Than Nothing, Hopefully EnoughHOWL Art & Literary Magazine

Desert, Mother, Home. Cholla Needles #33
• Performed at Desert Stories XIV, Joshua Tree, CA

Dirty Business – Short Fast & Deadly

HiccupPANK
 Ask The Author: Susan Rukeyser

His Venus – Metazen
• Reprint: FlashFiction.net

HUMAN | NATURE – Cholla Needles #12

I, DeconstructedBarren Magazine

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.orgMonkeybicycle 

I Was a Pink Bath BombMojave He[art] Review
• Reprint: Digging Through the Fat, Community #48

In Our IsolationCholla Needles #69

Ingrown Rage – Cliterature
• Reprint: Digging Through the Fat, Community #48

Invasive SpeciesAtticus Review
• Collected in Get Lit
• Reprint: Kudzu House Quarterly

Just like LilyTreehouse

Listen For What I Don’t SayCholla Needles #33

Mother LiesInk, Sweat & Tears 

Neighborhood Watch, circa 2009Pine Hills Review

On the Edge of Something Else – The Other Room

Our Bloody SecretsThe 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 BluesSundog Lit
 Included in podcast: Mr. Bear’s Violet Hour Saloon #62

Scent Memory – Stone Highway Review

Shock on the Salton SeaSanta Ana River Review

Some Kind of ComfortWhiskeyPaper
• Named to Wigleaf’s Top 50 Longlist
• Collected in DISARM: A Gun Sense Anthology

Spray-Tans in the 70sEclectic Flash

SquallSmokeLong Quarterly
Smoking with: Susan Rukeyser (interview)

Square and CallusedMelusine

Stuck ShutFoundling Review

The Proof in Her GutIdentity Theory

The Worst Girl’s Best DayNecessary Fiction

Things Break Easily in My Big HandsLuna Luna Magazine
• Cross-posted at Ravishly

Timeline for DecompositionCholla Needles #45

What is Reflected – The View from Here

What’s Your Problem with Joe Biden?The Weeklings

With Her Sharp, Heavy WorldA-Minor Magazine 

X-Rays are My SouvenirsHippocampus 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 GoldfishOkay Donkey Magazine

You Were the Girl WhoBlack Heart Magazine

Science Fiction

From the Angels to Snakes Simultaneous Times, Ep. 14
• collected in the Simultaneous Times Anthology, Vol. 2
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
• collected in the Simultaneous Times Anthology, Vol. 3
We Have Your Connie Moody Simultaneous Times, Ep. 18

Interview Simultaneous Times Podcast, Supplementary Log, Ep. 16

This, That

TWITTER PROSE

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 FictionMatter Press blog
Short Stories are a Digestible MealAtticus Books blog
Interview of Grant Faulkner – Necessary Fiction
Interview of Emily Rinkema – Smokelong Quarterly
Mixed-media: After the Cabaret – Star 82 Review
Mixed-media: Fiber – Enhance Magazine
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
Video poem: Lust for Love (5) – Interfictions
Video poems: Suburban Costumes; Layers to Experience; Morning at Market – Gravel Magazine
Video poems: The Andersons; TreesSPACES