My piece “Throwing in the Dish Towel” will be published in Nude Bruce Review in March 2026. Yay!

Did you love the 1964 TV version of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer? As a kid (or as an adult) did you feel like a misfit, like Rudolph or Hermey (the elf who wanted to be a dentist instead of one of Santa’s toymakers)? Has happiness or excitement ever frazzled you? If so, you might relate to “My Hurliest Memories,” my essay in The Summerset Review. (You can read it here.)

“The Two-Dollar Fortune” was lucky enough to be a finalist in the last Short Story America Prize competition and to find itself published in print in Volume VI of Short Story America. (You can read it here.)

“Ode to a Flamingo Bag” (or “Finding Flamingos,” as I sometimes call this little story) should be filed under Inanimate Objects, Attachment to, and can be hoarded both in print and online in the Spring 2018 issue of Philadelphia Stories. (You can read it here.)

I got a lot of mileage out of “Driving the Dodge Over Fifty,” which won Second Prize in the 2015 Short Story America Prize for Short Fiction contest and was published in Volume V of Short Story America in February 2017, where it continues to be garaged. (You can read it here.)

Thank you to my writing teachers and readers past and present: Charles Simic, Marvin Cohen, Laury A. Egan, Blayr Austin, Estelle Erasmus, and Liz Hanellin, Editor Extraordinaire.