Selected Publications

Creative Writing

• “Wisconsin Sexy” in Barrelhouse
• “On Easter, Mothman Seethes” in Killing the Buddha
• “A Meditation on Meditation” in Killing the Buddha
• “Fix Your Face” in Menacing Hedge
• “Inertia” in Neologism Poetry Journal
• “Birbs” and “Heat Wave” in Drunk Monkeys
• “The Basking Shark” in Split Rock Review
• “Uninvited Guests” and “The Cryptids’ Daily Grind” in Marsh Hawk Review
• “Her Resolution: Geophagia VIII” in Crab Orchard Review
• “Shark Week” in Glass, Poets Resist Series
• “Adaptation: Geophagia IX” in Bodega
• “Family Visit,” “Union Representative,” “Lost & Found,” and “The Secret to Sustained Desire” in the Anthology of Appalachian Writers, XI
• “Shift Change” and “Shorn” in Chautauqua Review
• “Home Shopping Fantasy” in The Hunger
• “Markings” in Cloudbank
• “Negotiations: Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel and United Steelworkers of America” in Kestrel
• “Resolution: New Year’s Day, Moundsville, WV 1986″ in Newtown Literary
• “Drug: Geophagia IV” in Rogue Agent
• “Unchained” in Little Patuxent Review
• “Man Suffocates Under Newspaper Collection” in Cordite Poetry Review
• “Overheard in the Bathroom at the WV Blues Fest” and “Garage Sale” in Marsh Hawk Review
• “The Swimming Sea Cucumber Puts Broadway Actors to Shame” in Right Hand Pointing
• “Night Visitor” in Hoot Review
• “Sinus Pressure” in Unbroken
• “Sex Ed” and “Gift Offering” in The Monarch Review
• “Home Remedy” and “Honeymoon, Mallorca 2008” in Aji Magazine
• “Namesake,” “Patient Interactions,” and “Sunday Night Laundry” in Steel Toe Review
• “Cooking Show Host Seeks a Career Change” in Cider Press Review
• “Cheers, Christmas Eve, 2008” in RHINO
• “The Joy of Sex” in DMQ Review

Scholarship

• “Productive Disruption in the Working-Class Poetry of Jan Beatty, Sandra Cisneros, and Wanda Coleman” in Companion to Literature and Class. Routledge. 2021.
• “‘Ping Ping Ping / I break things’: Productive Disruption in the Working-Class Poetry of Jan Beatty, Sandra Cisneros, and Wanda Coleman.” The Journal of Working-Class Studies, Volume 3, Issue 1, June 2018.
• “Bursting at the Seams: Exploding the Confines of Reification with Creative Constraints in Sleeping with the Dictionary” in Reading the Difficulties: Dialogues with Contemporary American Innovative Poetry. Eds. Dr. Thomas Fink and Judith Halden-Sullivan. University of Alabama Press. 2014.
• “‘But he aint never bin seen!’: The Protean Howard Hughes and Overlapping Capitalist Narratives in Ed Dorn’s Gunslinger” in The Changing Image of the Businessman through Literature. Ed. Christa Mahalik. Cambridge Scholars Press. 2010.