Short Stories






Glimmer Train (Summer 2010) – “Elaborate Preparations for Departure.” Winner of the Glimmer Train Fiction Open.
Mississippi Review (Summer 2010) – “The Meat Line.” Winner of the Hackney Literary Award.
American Fiction (Fall 2010) – “Voyeuse.” Runner-up, American Fiction award.
Southern California Review (Fall 2010) – “Understanding the Sky.” Winner of the Southern California Review award.
Tampa Review (Summer 2011) – “Inheritance.” Finalist for the Danahy Award.
Sycamore Review (Summer 2011) – “Flatwater.” Second prize, Hackney Literary Award; finalist for the Wabash Prize.
Zymbol (Spring/Summer 2013) – “The Goddess, Lonely.”
Salamander (Summer 2016) – “Oxygen.”
Essays, Articles & Interviews
My essay, “A Few Words About Conflict,” appeared in the June 2011 Glimmer Train online bulletin. Here’s a link to it: A Few Words About Conflict
This is a piece published in Lion’s Roar, a Buddhist journal, in March 2020: Where Is My Brother?
Here's an essay I wrote for CrimeReads about spirituality in fiction: Crimereads essay
Here's a written interview about The Way with Paul Semel, book blogger: Paul Semel exclusive interview
And here's a 12-minute radio interview with Joe Donahue of Northeast Public Radio: WAMC The Roundtable