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Novella:

Cardboard Clouds (2023) (read blurbs/buy)

A surrealist collection of one page, one-act stage plays. While each play stands on its own, recurring characters ooze and accumulate into a continually building narrative. Inspired by the playwright Mary Zimmerman as well as the work of Swedish film director Roy Andersson, Cardboard Clouds matches the energy of Russell Edson hosting a speed dating evening in an abandoned theater at the end of the world. Available with X-R-A-Y in early fall.

Poetry Book:

No Farther Than the End of the Street (2022) (read blurbs/buy)

[nominated for the 2023 Elgin Award]

My debut full-length, a collection of neighborhood prose poems and surrealist vignettes where no pages stray beyond the city block where the book begins. Available through Okay Donkey Press, with blurbs from Lemony Snicket, CAConrad, Zachary Schomburg, and Dalton Day.

Poetry Chapbooks:

The Northerners (2021) (read more/buy) // An experimental sequence of 36 tiny poems written while watching the Dutch film De Noorderlingen (1992) on mute. Available through above/ground press.

Pickpocket the Bigtop (2022) (listen/buy) // A handmade chapbook of 26 prose poems inspired by vintage circus films between 1928 & 1969. Available through Dark Hour Books.

free E-Chapbooks & writing PROMPTS:

There Has Been a Murder (2022) (download/donate) // 10 noir (see also: detective (see also: death)) prose poems written in collaboration with Evan Nicholls and Evan Williams. For Ghost City Press’ Summer Series.

Swallow Cinnamon, Plant an Acorn (2019) (download/buy) // 32 writing prompts from 32 writers. All featured writers previously interviewed on [neonpajamas]. Available as a free PDF.

Ants on Stilts (2018) (download/buy) // 40 tiny poems, discarded postcards, low budget observations, mediocre illustrations. Self-published & self-illustrated. Available as a free PDF.

Dress Code Aquarium (2017) (download/buy) // 40 one-page pieces involving hot air balloons, skunks, catamarans, and the pope driving a tractor. Self-published. Available as a free PDF.

(PROSE) POEMS & STORIES

Afternoon Visitor // Two Poems

Always Crashing // Five Poems

Astrolabe // “Woodland Wisdom Tooth” (Best Microfiction nomination)

Atlas and Alice // “Guadalajara Funeral Parlor”

Autofocus // “TV Dinner”

Back Patio Press // Three Coal Poems

Back Patio Press // Three Poems

Blue Arrangements // Four Foreign Films & One Canceled Series

BOOTH // “My Mother Coming Apart” (Pushcart Prize nomination)

Buffalox8 // “He Forgot His Wallet in the Fog”

Cease, Cows // “Ice Sculpture”

Cheap Pop // “Dr. Dad”

Claw & Blossom // “A Lake Upon a Lake”

Crazyhorse // “Tiny Lightning”

decomP Magazine // “Chicago, a National Park”

DUSIE // “Horses, a Triptych”

elsewhere // “White Ferrari”

ergot. // A Triptych of Sicknesses

Fairy Tale Review // “While Drinking Sangria”

Fence // Two Poems

Fractured Lit // “Commercial Break”

Ghost City Press // One Poem

Gone Lawn // Two Prose Poems

Gone Lawn // “14.5 Reasons Why I Love You” (Best Microfiction nomination)

Guesthouse // Two Prose Poems

HAD // “Abstraction”

HAD // “Birds (Or How to Be One)” (Best of the Net nomination)

HAD // “1-800-MUR-DERS” (w/ Evan Nicholls & Evan Williams)

Heavy Feather Review // “Indigo Froth” + interview (Best of the Net nomination)

Hex // “Night Staff at the Library” (Best of the Net nomination)

Hobart // “New Student Worker at the Library” (Best Microfiction nomination)

HOOT review // “The Paragraph Grows” // Two Plays

Jellyfish Review // “The Parish”

Jet Fuel Review // “Balcony”

Largehearted Boy // “I Haven’t Seen My Weekend in a While”

Lost Balloon // “On My Day Off” (featured in Wigleaf longlist)

Maudlin House // “She Names the Cardboard Clouds”

Maudlin House // “Morning”

Mercurius Magazine // Six Prose Poems + Feature

Milk Candy Review // “Moose Hunt” (featured in Wigleaf Top 50)

Monkeybicycle // “The Weather of the Desert” (One-Sentence Story)

Neutral Spaces // “Birthday, Party of Six”

Obliterat // “My Sons”

Okay Donkey // “At the Airport Kiosk” // “Delayed Lightning” (Best of the Net nomination)

Olney Magazine // Three Prose Poems (print only)

Otoliths // Three Prose Poems

Paper Darts // “Gender Reveal Party”

Peach Mag // “Call Collect” (Pushcart Prize nomination)

Peach Mag // “End of the World Party”

Phoebe Journal // “The Twins” (2021 Poetry Contest runner up, judged by Sabrina Orah Mark)

Pidgeonholes // “You You You”

Pithead Chapel // “First Date” // “The Pair of Married Mimes”

Psychopomp // “The Guest Lecturer and the Professor”

Puerto del Sol // “Dewdrop Molecules, a Triptych”

Rejection Letters // Two Prose Poems

Salt Hill // Two Poems (print only)

Screaming into a Horse’s Mouth // “The Magician’s Liver, a Triptych”

Sixth Finch // “His Hair Returned”

The Spectacle // Two Microfictions

Sporklet // Four Microfables

SurVision Magazine // Three Prose Poems (Best of the Net nomination)

SurVision Magazine // Two Poems

Talking About Strawberries All of the Time // Three Prose Poems

The Boiler // “Larry”

The Glacier // Five Poems

The Indianapolis Review // “Yellow Applause” (Best of the Net nomination)

The Indianapolis Review // “Long Distance Relationship” (Poets Are Funny Issue)

The Poetry Project // Four Small Poems

Threadcount // “Circus”

Tiny Molecules // “Magus Frustrated” (a one-act play)

Tupelo Quarterly // “Lassoing the Family” (a triptych)

Unbroken Journal // “Niespodziany” // “A Turkey in the Context of Bowling”

Ursus Americanus // Two Poems

Ursus Americanus // Three Poems

Wigleaf // Four Microfictions (Best Microfiction nomination)

X-R-A-Y // Three Triptychs

Your Impossible Voice // one poem & one cento (Best of the Net nomination)

Magazines:

Handcastle Magazine (buy) // Two issues, both with over 40 pages featuring a dozen+ artists from seven different countries. They include interviews, poems, visual art, recipes, and more.

Drawing a Blank (download/buy) // A 40 page, multimedia art zine featuring 27 different artists through paintings, drawings, poetry, photography, and even a grocery list. Available as a pay-what-you-want PDF.