I’m a writer and yoga teacher based in the Chicago suburbs.

Publications and Honors:

  • Tracks,” Terrain.org, January 14, 2025
  • What Happened at the Zoo,” Epiphany Magazine, April 4, 2024
  • “Rocketized Space Balloon,” The Healing Muse, Volume 24, No. 1, Fall 2024
  • Pushcart Prize Nomination 2021
  • The Hunger of Ned Greaves,” J Journal, Vol. 14, No. 2, Fall 2021
  • “Edmund,” River Styx, December 2018
  • “Orphans on the Moon,” Witness, Vol. XXVII, No. 1, Spring 2014
  • “Circling in the Air,” New Stories from the Midwest 2012 (Anthology), Indiana University Press, 2013
  • “Clarity,” chosen as a Distinguished Story, New Stories from the Midwest 2012
  • “Martin Landshanks Rises from the Dead,” Eleven Eleven, Issue 11, 2011
  • “Circling in the Air,” Mississippi Review, Volume 38, Numbers 1 & 2, 2010
  • Second Place, MR Prize 2010
  • Clarity,” TriQuarterly, Issue 138, Summer & Fall 2010
  • “Eight Literary Pieces,” P-Queue, Vol. 4, 2007
  • “Burt Halifax,” Main Street Rag, Volume 12, Number 2, Summer 2007
  • “Truth and Justice in Jefferson,” Inkwell, No. 19, Spring 2006
  • Winner MSR Fiction Contest 2006
  • Finalist Inkwell Fiction Contest, 20
  • “Panels,” Backwards City Review, Volume Two, Number Two, Fall 2006
  • Second Place, Whiskey Island Contest, 2006