After spending six years of my childhood in Arizona, the western United States has always held a special place in my heart. After driving...

Due to time and energy constraints, I've been dipping into writing shorter pieces lately, from microfiction to poetry. I think it's a...

Writing spooky short stories about death gives me life, so when I heard that HamLit was making its triumphant return, I knew I had to pen...

Thrilled to share that my Prompts piece, "Sleeping Beauty," was published in the 2022 Village Books Writers' Corner Anthology! I wrote...

Excited to share that my short story, "A Very Old Friend," was included in Interconnectedness, the 2022 Whatcom WRITES short story...

Delighted to share that my short story about a fisherwoman's odd catch, "Harmony," is now available to read in HamLit's 2021 Fall issue:...

Writing to a theme is such a big help for me. There's something about having at least one parameter around a piece that helps guide my...

I'm always on the lookout for literary magazines that are interested in the odd and unusual. So, when I stumbled upon the eerie Coffin...

Lately I've been working on a variety of short stories in order to keep improving my writing skills as I work on long-term professional...

Today's the day -- Love and Electronic Affection: A Design Primer is now available! For this romance-focused volume, I contributed a...

Gah looks like my poem, "Leftover," is a Merit Winner of the 2020 Sue C. Boynton Poetry Contest! 🎉 Each year, two respected Whatcom...

This year, I entered Cascadia Weekly''s annual Fiction 101 Competition, which asks local folks to write microfiction of 101 words or...

Overjoyed to share that my short story, "Manna is Where You Make It," was selected for publication in this year's Whatcom WRITES...

Excited to share that my short story, "The Other Side," is featured in HamLit's January 2020 issue, No Man's Land. I've been working on...

Thrilled to share the publication of The Encyclopedia of Sexism in American Films (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2019), to which I...

Chapter publication alert! Excited to share that I wrote a chapter for a book that was published this month — Pop Culture Matters:...

I'm excited to announce the publication of my chapter for the book Digital Love: Romance & Sexuality in Video Games (Taylor & Francis,...