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About Me

“Embers,” my first published story, began as a scene in a novel I was writing. The scene took my protagonist in a direction that, unfortunately, never led back to the main plot, so I had to cut it. Sad to see it “go,” I sought to transform the scene into a standalone story–and ended up with what was, at that time, called a short-short.

Three years later, I discovered microfiction and got hooked on 100-word stories (Drabbles). After about a dozen Drabbles, I began experimenting with other micro lengths and found that I love the challenge of trying to tell a story as succinctly as possible. (Another thing I love: including at least one baseball reference in my stories.)

I’ve had short prose published in The Big Windows Review, The Birdseed, Blink-Ink, Blood Sugar Poetry, BOMBFIRE, Books Ireland, Boston Literary Magazine, Briefly Write, Bright Flash Literary Review, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Bull & Cross, The Cabinet of Heed, Chantarelle’s Notebook, Cranked Anvil, The Daily Drunk, The Disappointed Housewife, Discretionary Love, Dog-Ear, Doghouse Press, The Drabble, Drabblez Magazine, The Dribble Drabble Review, Dwelling Literary, Elephants Never, Ellipsis Zine, Epistemic Literary Magazine, Eulogy Press, Eunoia Review, Fairlight Books, FewerThan500.com, Fiction on the Web, The Fiction Pool, Fictive Dream, 50-Word Stories, Five Minutes, Flash Boulevard, Flash Fiction Magazine, FlashFlood the National Flash Fiction Day Journal, Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine, Freshwater Literary Journal, Friday Fix Fiction, Friday Flash Fiction, Funny Pearls, Gastropoda, Heimat Review, The Hooghly Review, The Hoolet’s Nook, Ink In Thirds, JAKE: The Anti Literary Magazine, L’Ephemere Review, Little Rose Magazine, Livina Press, (mac)ro(mic), The Meadowlark Review, The Mersey Review, Microfiction Monday Magazine, Micromance Magazine, Mojave Heart Review, Molecule, MoonPark Review, Nailpolish Stories, NEWMAG, New Pop Lit, 101 Words, Paper Trains Literary Journal, Paragraph Planet, Peeking Cat Literary, Pigeon Review, Pine Hills Review, Pink Heart Mag, Pixel Heart Literary Magazine, Postcard Shorts, The Prose Poem, Pudding Magazine, A Quiet Courage, Recesses, Riggwelter, Roi Faineant Press, R U Joking? Rum Punch Press, Scaffold, Sentience Literary Journal, Seven by Twenty, Sledgehammer Lit, Some Words, Sonic Boom, Splonk, Star 82 Review, [sub]liminal, Suddenly, and Without Warning, Switch, Temple in a City, 10 By 10 Flash Fiction Stories, Thimble Literary Magazine, Toasted Cheese Literary Journal, Train, Trouvaille Review, Truffle Magazine, 24 Unread Messages, Unbroken Journal, the Under Review, Uppagus, Vroom Lit Magazine, Whale Road Review, Who Writes Short Shorts? and Yuzu Press.

Awards and Recognition

  • “Sweet Girl,” published in the September 2025 issue of Epistemic Literary Magazine, was nominated for inclusion in the anthology Best Microfiction 2026.
  • “Reunions,” which appeared in Eulogy Press in June 2025, was nominated for Best of the Net 2026 and inclusion in the anthology Best Microfiction 2026.
  • “Yard Sale,” published in Heimat Review in November 2024, was longlisted for the 2025 Wigleaf Top 50.
  • “A Friendly Confession,” which appeared in Fictive Dream as part of Flash Fiction February 2024, was nominated for inclusion in the anthology Best Microfiction 2025.
  • “Ballgame,” shortlisted in January 2024 for the Welkin Mini Writing Prize, was nominated for inclusion in the anthology Best Microfiction 2025.
  • “Anything’s Possible,” published in Micromance Magazine in July 2024, was nominated for inclusion in Best Microfiction 2025.
  • “Afterschool Snack,” which appeared in Bright Flash Literary Review in June 2023, was longlisted for the 2024 Wigleaf Top 50.
  • “Ballgame” was shortlisted for the Welkin Mini Writing Prize and published in January 2024.
  • “After the Argument,” published in Flash Fiction Magazine in January 2022, was longlisted for the 2023 Wigleaf Top 50.
  • “Scars,” which appeared in Fictive Dream in February 2018 as part of Flash Fiction February, was nominated for inclusion in Best Microfiction 2019.
  • “Perspective,” first published in the Summer 2015 issue of Boston Literary Magazine, was chosen to appear in The Best of Boston Literary Magazine, Volume One, in 2016.
  • “Embers” placed in the top 25 out of more than 5,000 entries in the 2010 Writer’s Digest Show Us Your Shorts contest and was published in the 11th Annual Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Competition Collection.

Podcasts

  • “Noted,” published in September 2021 in The Birdseed, was included in the “Writing in the Present with the Past” episode of the Full House Literary podcast in November 2021.
  • “Playing with Fire,” which appeared in The Fiction Pool in August 2019, was featured on the English in Practice podcast in June 2020.