Fiction & Poetry & Music
Demographics
I was told to start with a bio! My poetry has appeared in Sonora Review, Santa Clara Review, Interim, and elsewhere, and I write and perform music as a solo artist and with my handsome bandmates in Loose Freight and Ceretana. I mean, damn, you have no idea how handsome these bastards are!
In other news, I have an MFA in Creative Writing from Colorado State University, where I taught writing and literature for many years. Now I live in Portland, Oregon, where I work as a writer and editor of Language Arts curriculum, which is a lot like teaching except you’re allowed to wear a robe to work. I’m currently chugging along on my first novel, which has some time travel and probably too many exclamation points and defintely isn’t the least bit autobiographical.
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FICTION
The Backwards Jump
I’m currently tapping away at a speculative novel called The Backwards Jump. The escalator pitch: Tasked with writing the eulogy for his estranged father, Will O’Malley learns he can leap into the past to learn the objective truths behind the tall-tales of his family history, which helps him better understand the inhereted burdens of both his father and himself.
Spoiler alert: Teddy Roosevelt shows up! Long story short, my great-grandfather peed next to Teddy while he was tiling Teddy’s house. What do you do with such information? Apparently, you write a novel.
POETRY
(selected published works)
“RENO, AFTER MERTON’S ‘TRAPPISTS, WORKING’” • SONORA REVIEW • VOL. 55/56
“NEW BEDFORD” • SANTA CLARA REVIEW • VOL.. 95:2
“TO CUMBERLAND ISLAND, UPON WAKING IN THE SMOKY MOUNTAINS” • POTOMAC REVIEW • VOL. 45
“U.S. STEEL” • BLUE EARTH REVIEW • Vol. 7:1
“AMERICA” • BREATHE: 101 CONTEMPORARY ODES • C&R PRESS
“BLACK CANYON,” “STATE ROUTE 301,” and “WAKE” • PRISM REVIEW • Vol. 6
“CAROUSEL,” “A HUMMINGBIRD,” and “NEAR SHINGLETOWN” • INTERIM • VOL. 26
“FRANCONIA NOTCH” • MATTER • VOL. 11
MUSIC
FOLK • AMERICANA • ROOTS • ALT-COUNTRY • SINGER-SONGWRITER
PRESS
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