About

My novella SKYLIGHTING is forthcoming from Regal House Publishing (fall, 2025). I've won 3 poetry awards and I'm the author of 5 poetry chapbooks. My work has appeared in a half dozen anthologies, including The Best Small Fictions 2016, and in about three dozen magazines and journals.

Featured Work

SKYLIGHTING

2025

After losing his wife, a young attorney quits his NYC law firm for a low-rent life in a Florida beach town. He both fears and desires a renewal of emotional connection, and through a series of encounters he experiences variations of his own dilemma.

Other Works

  • Apostasy of the Wayless Poet

    2013

  • Poem of the Ahead Places

    2013

  • Let There Be Canyons

    2013

  • The Loneliness Jacket

    2011

  • Ladybug on the Odometer

    2011

Awards and Recognition

  • Winner 2010 Apprentice House Chapbook Award; Winner 2011 Clockwise Chapbook Award; Winner 2013 Willet Press Poetry Prize; Runner-up 2011 Gribble Press Chapbook Award; Finalist 2018 Concrete Wolf Louis Award; Finalist 2015 Codhill Press Poetry Award; Finalist 2012 DIAGRAM Chapbook Award; Finalist 2007 Lunch Hour Short Story Award; Finalist 2008 Hidden River Arts Fiction Award; Honorable Mention 2008 Lunch Hour Short Stories Award; Second Place 2023 Ellen J Miller Short Story Competition; Heartland Writer's Residency, Fall 2014; Martha Vineyard Writer's Residency, Fall 2012; Wild Goose Poetry Review Featured Poet, Winter 2008; Semifinalist University of New Orleans Press Lab Prize 2022.

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