FORTHCOMING and NEWS
- “Magic 8 Ball” selected as Distinguished in Best American Mystery Stories 2019
- “The Hookerman’s Backyard” selected as Notable in Best American Essays 2019
- Two new stories. “Splat!” is in Mystery Tribune, Summer 2019, and a new story is forthcoming in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, date tbd
- Short Story “Window to the Soul” was a finalist for the 2019 ITW Thriller Awards for Best Short Story For a full list of finalists in all categories, click HERE.
- Short Story “Waiting on Joe” from my book Shooting Creek was included in Best American Mystery Stories 2018
- Essay “House for Sale by Owner” selected as Notable in Best American Essays 2018 and chosen as Special Mention in The Pushcart Prize 2019
- Surviving Jersey was a finalist for CLMP’s Firecracker Award for Best Book of 2017 in Creative Nonfiction
- You can read “Bee Man” in the May 2018 issue of Brevity
SHORT STORIES (a sampling)
- “Waiting on Joe” in Best American Mystery Stories 2018
- “Window to the Soul” in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
- “The Dead” in the official anthology for Bouchercon 2017 A Passport to Murder
- “Magic 8 Ball” in Unloaded 2: Crime Writers Writing Without Guns
- “Frank’s Beach” in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
- “Moss Man” in The Ghost Story
- “Shooting Creek” in Thuglit
- “Pleasant Grove” in Best American Mystery Stories 2014
- “Jim Limey’s Confession” in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
- “Donations” in Every Day Fiction
CREATIVE NONFICTION/MEMOIR/ARTICLES (a sampling)
- “The Hookerman’s Backyard” (essay) in North American Review (May 2018)
- “Long Row To Hoe” (essay) in The Chaffin Review (Spring 2018)
- “The Second Person” (essay) in The Jabberwock Review (Fall 2017)
- Brief post on The Story Prize website about my writing process.
- Interview with NY Times best selling author Lisa Unger for Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine’s blog Something Is Going To Happen
- “House for Sale by Owner” (essay) in Zone 3 Chosen as a Notable for Best American Essays 2018
- “The Lost Art” (essay on hitchhiking) in Hippocampus
- “Steps” in Creative Nonfiction
- “My Father” in Creative Nonfiction Chosen as a Notable for Best American Essays 2015
- “Circus Prayer” in Sweet. Republished in anthology “The Book of Uncommon Prayer”
