AWARDS –
Winner – Winter, 2010 Cardinal Sins Poetry Slam, Saginaw, MI. Poem: “We Are All Poets”
Winner – Fall, 2010 Cardinal Sins Poetry Slam, Saginaw, MI. Poem: “Kids on Leashes.”
PUBLICATIONS –
2007 –
Pegasus (Nevada) Poems: “The Nice Guy,” “Some of Us.”
Cardinal Sins, Fall, 2007, Poems: “At O’Hare,” “Battleground.”
2010 –
Cardinal Sins, Spring, 2010, Poems: “We Are All Poets,” “Ode to My Cat.”
Cardinal Sins, Fall, 2010., Poem: “Kids on Leashes.”
National Gallery of Writing, National Council of Teachers of English, November, 2010. Poem: “Green Machine.”
2011 –
deuce coupe, January, 2011, Poem: “Father’s Day.”
Art Showing, March-April, 2011: “From the Ashes: Beauty in Abandonment,” Magic Bean Café, Saginaw, MI. Poems: “Back to the Garden,” “When a City Is Dying.”
Front Porch Review, Vol. 3, April, 2011. Poem: “Before They Wake.”
FortyOunceBachelors, Vol. 1, Issue 4, September, 2011. Poem: “Michigan Wind.”
Midwest Literary Magazine, August, 2011. Poem: “Neglect.”
Broken Spades, Anthology, The Quiet Press, October, 2011. Poem: “Neglect.”
Heavy Hands Ink, Vol. 7, October, 2011. Poems: “Guarding the Garage,” “From Mother to Son.”
See Spot Run, December, 2011. Alma College. Poem: “6AM”
Qua Literary & Fine Arts Magazine, Winter, 2012. University of Michigan-Flint. Poems: “Burial,” “The Man Who Burned Down the Ippel Building”
2012 –
Novel: “The Road to Fluffer”
2013 –
Short Story: “Hellhounds on My Trail”
2015 –
Book Review: “Bastards of the Reagan Era” by Reginald Dwayne Betts, Newpages.com (https://newpages.com/item/30938-bastards-of-the-reagan-era)
Book Review: “The Crossing” by Jonathan Fink, Newpages.com (https://newpages.com/book-reviews/crossing)
Journal Review: Glimmer Train Stories, Fall 2015, Newpages.com
2016 –
Journal Review: BULL, No. 5, Newpages.com
Poems: “Collected Poems”
2022 –
Book Review: “Detroit: A Biography” by Scott Martelle, Bold Phrase (https://boldphrase.com/detroit-a-biography-book-review/)
Photo/Interview, “You’re Back to the Office and So Are the Unwanted Holiday Treats,” The Wall Street Journal, December 20, 2022, https://tinyurl.com/fbr56794
2023 –
Novel: “The Body Shop”