alleged publications
Fiction
“The World Ablaze,” SWING, November 2023
“Ballad III,” Denver Quarterly, February 2022
“It Came from Beyond the Snow,” NELLE, April 2021 (winner of the Three Sisters Prize in Fiction)
“Ballad II,” The Boiler, August 2020 (nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
“The Obstinate Child: An Étude,” DREGINALD, March 2020
“Ballad I,” Quarterly West, November 2019
“The Many-Legged Menace,” The Sonder Review, June 2019
“Instars,” Booth, February 2019 (online) & 2020 (print)
“Prairie Mama,” Gingerbread House, November 2017 (nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
“House, Orchard, Well,” Liminal Stories, October 2017
“The Crane Alphabet,” Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, September 2017
“Janus,” Hoot, August 2017 (nominated for Best of the Net)
“…But Not Too Bold,” Luna Station Quarterly, March 2017
“Hic Sunt Leones,” Shimmer, January 2017
“Bestiary,” Hobart, November 2016
Blog Posts & Interviews
“SFF Settings I’d Vacation In: The Vanished Birds,” Cincinnati Review blog, February 2024
“SFF Settings I’d Vacation In: Gideon the Ninth,” Cincinnati Review blog, November 2023
“Getting Away with It: Epistolary Fiction,” Cincinnati Review blog, September 2022
“What We’re Reading: Klara and the Sun,” Cincinnati Review blog, February 2022
Interview with Rivers Solomon, Black Warrior Review blog, April 2019
Interview with Jennifer Habel, Sewanee Review blog, April 2017
Interview with Lauren Groff, Sewanee Review blog, April 2017
dread prophecies in progress
The Empty Castle
A short-story collection, looking for a home.
“The Empty Castle” contains four triptychs of stories, all of which converge in the title novella. The stories range from satirical fantasy (a group of self-important mages try and recover the magic they believe to be leaking out of the world), to folklore-inspired fabulist horror (a post-apocalyptic settlement grows up around a cauldron which has had a woman boiling in it for hundreds of years), to 1950s B-movie-inflected camp (a young cultist burns down a warehouse full of vintage horror concept sculptures). In the title novella, characters, creatures, timelines, and a dead entomologist prophesying about the end of the world all find themselves drawn, inevitably, together in the empty castle. Stories from this manuscript have appeared in journals including Quarterly West, Booth, and Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet.