Writng Samples

Reportage

• "Bringing Black Kink to the Memphis Mainstream" in the Memphis Flyer
• "How a Grant For Budding Retailers is Helping Populate Empty Storefronts in Downtown Memphis" in High Ground News
• "Alice Hasen: A Genre-Defying Musician with an Environmental Message" in Jejune Magazine
• "Maggie of Mystic Light Casino Is Trans, Proud, and Rocking Memphis" in TranSlash
• "Two Tasty Non-Profits That Support Sex Workers" in Jejune Magazine
• "Erica Qualy: Creating a community with a single roll of film" in PhotoFocus
• "What I've learned: a Memphis entrepreneur shares some wisdom after his first year in business" in High Ground News
• "An Artistic Vision Towers in Brownsville" on VisitBrownsvilleTn.com.
• "With plans to expand, eagerly awaiting spring's arrival at Black Seeds Urban Farms," in High Ground News

Prose

• "The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies" in The Challenger Disaster: Perspectives on Modern World History
• “Writing My Own Name in the Encyclopedia of Work:” A review of Matthew Nienow’s House of Water" in Tupelo Quarterly
• Our Home on High (a one-act play)

Poetry

• "The Electric Hare" in The Indianapolis Review
• "My Dad Steps out of a 1987 Chevy Cavalier" in 365 Collection
• "Architects, Please Try Harder" in The Maine Review
• "Pedal Steel Guitar" in Avatar Review
• "Archimedes' Father Discovers His Son's Sketches" in Oyster River Pages
• "Former Students, Now Deceased" in Pembroke Magazine
• "Fred Flinstone's Complaint" in Projector
• "Melanie Daniels Smokes a Cigarette in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds" in Drunk Monkeys
• "Palimpsest" in Kindred
• "Lightning Strikes Roy Sullivan for the Seventh Time" in Kindred
• "Casualty 1, Casualty 2, Casualty 6" in Synaesthesia Magazine *1st Place Competition Winner*
• "To the Lady Who Stopped the Fistfight" in Straightforward Poetry Magazine
• "Pebble" in Straightforward Poetry Magazine
• "Splashdown" in Lumina Literary Journal
• "Coup de Gras" in Hartskill Review
• "Benediction 3" in Rock and Sling
• "Watching Hockey with My Son" in The Sandy River Review
• "Self-Portrait as Labyrinth" in decomp journal
• "The Coinstar Sonnet" in Vending Machine Press
• "Quartet for Winds" in Vending Machine
• "First Memory" in Vending Machine
• "Benediction 1" in Vending Machine
• "Circles" in Heron Tree
• "The Guy in the Cab" in Stirring: A Literary Collection
• "Filming the Moon Landing" in Juke Joint Magazine
• "The Garrote" in Panoply: A Literary Zine
• "The Gorgon's Last Dream" in The Copperfield Review

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