My third book, Damnatio Memoriae, won the Brick Road Poetry Book Contest. My previous books are Leaving Iowa (winner of the Liam Rector First Book Award) and Blue Collar Eulogies (Steel Toe Books, finalist for the Grub Street Book Prize). I've also published five chapbooks: Pure Elysium (winner of the Palettes and Quills Chapbook Contest), The Clay-Shaper's Husband (winner of the Codhill Press Chapbook Award), Real Courage (winner of the Terminus Magazine and Jeanne Duval Editions Poetry Chapbook Prize), The Right Madness of Beggars (winner of the Uccelli Press 3rd Annual Chapbook Competition), and Cardboard Urn (winner of the Copperdome Chapbook Contest). I've also won the Marjorie J. Wilson Best Poem Contest, the Laureate Prize for Poetry, the James Wright Poetry Award, and the Annie Finch Prize for Poetry. My work has appeared in Ploughshares, North American Review, Arts & Letters, River Styx, Quick Fiction, Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, and other journals. I also have a fantasy novel, Wytchfire (the first in a series) forthcoming from Double Dragon Publishing.

Damnatio Memoriae (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2011), Blue Collar Eulogies (Steel Toe Books, 2009), Leaving Iowa (Briery Creek Press, 2006)

Pure Elysium (Palettes & Quills, 2011), Real Courage (Jeanne Duval Editions, 2009), The Clay-Shaper's Husband (Codhill Press, 2008), The Right Madness of Beggars (Uccelli Press, 2006), Cardboard Urn (Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2005)

Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel (No Tell Motel, 2006), Digerati (Three Candles Press, 2006), Hurricane Blues (Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2006), Illuminations: Expressions of the Personal Spiritual Experience (Ten Speed Press, 2006), Poetic Voices Without Borders (Gival Press, 2005)

Absent Willow Review, African American Review, American Poetry Journal, American Tanka, Another Chicago Magazine, Arts & Letters, Asimov's Sci-Fi Magazine, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Atlanta Review, Barn Owl Review, Bewildering Stories, Boxcar Poetry Review, Caesura, Chiron Review, Crab Orchard Review, Diagram, Edifice Wrecked, Flyway, Free Lunch, Fugue, Green Mountains Review, Juked, Los Angeles Review, Margie, Mid-American Review, Modern Haiku, National Poetry Review, Naugatuck River Review, North American Review, Pebble Lake Review, Ploughshares, Poetry Midwest, Poetry Southeast, Quick Fiction, Rattle, River Styx, Rosebud, Sentence, Snow Monkey, Southern Poetry Review, Tar Wolf Review, Tupelo Press Poetry Project (online) , Valparaiso Poetry Review, Verse Daily