Publications

Articles and Blog Posts

I am published in the Washington Independent Review of Books.

• Silent Book Club: Events for (Noisy!) Book Lovers (July 15, 2019) This was the fourth most popular article in July, as stated in this article.

I write articles for the Silent Book Club blog.

• Silent Book Club by the Month (August 30, 2022)
• My Silent Book Club Began to Lead Itself (April 2, 2021)
• The Pandemic and My Local Library (November 23, 2020)
• Epidemics, Plagues, and Isolation (March 26, 2020)
• How to Organize and Host a Book Club (July 15, 2019)
• Where Have You Been All My Life? (May 12, 2019)
• The Timelessness of Books (March 28, 2019)
• How Many Books Do You Need? (February 17, 2019)
• New Year’s Book Solutions (January 5, 2019)

I wrote a post for the Off the Beaten Shelf blog by Mandy Shunnarah.

• 11 Great Books Set in Cold Weather (January 18, 2021)

I wrote a post for the Three Hares blog by Lisa Tulfer.

• 3 Lessons I Learned From Writing a Historical Novel (September 24, 2021)

I wrote a post for the bookgaga blog by Vicki Ziegler.

• How to Read Books in a Pandemic in the Digital Age (February 24, 2021)

Poetry

I am published in Beltway Poetry Quarterly.

• Sonnets 129 and 130 (April 15, 2020) These poems are part of my unpublished sonnet sequence Two Novembers: A Memoir of Love ’n’ Sex in Sonnets.

I am published in The Headlight Review.

• Sonnet 114 (January 27, 2022) This poem is part of my unpublished sonnet sequence Two Novembers: A Memoir of Love ’n’ Sex in Sonnets.

I am published in Tofu Ink Arts Press, Volume 4.

• Sonnets 122, 123, and 127 (June 6, 2022) These poems are part of my unpublished sonnet sequence Two Novembers: A Memoir of Love ’n’ Sex in Sonnets.

I am published in Brief Wilderness.

• Sonnets 35, 39, and 42 (August 16, 2022) These poems are part of my unpublished sonnet sequence Two Novembers: A Memoir of Love ’n’ Sex in Sonnets.

I am published in The Big Windows Review.

• Sonnets 121 and 124 (August 30, 2022) These poems are part of my unpublished sonnet sequence Two Novembers: A Memoir of Love ’n’ Sex in Sonnets.

I am published in Burrow.

• Sonnets 41, 45, and 51 (September 2022) These poems are part of my unpublished sonnet sequence Two Novembers: A Memoir of Love ’n’ Sex in Sonnets.

Government Publications

I have been working as Policy Technical Writer for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) since May 2022. Here are selected publications that I assisted with:

• End User Workstation Configurations (October 2022)

I was a consultant (writer, editor, and graphic designer) for the National Forum on Education Statistics.

• Forum Guide to Exit Codes (September 2020) I am a named consultant in this publication.

I assisted the National Forum on Education Statistics as writer, editor, and graphic designer. Here are some of the publications created in part with my help:

• Forum Guide to Planning for, Collecting, and Managing Data About Students Displaced by a Crisis (September 2019)
• Forum Guide to Personalized Learning Data (August 2019)
• Forum Guide to Early Warning Systems (November 2018)
• Forum Guide to Facility Information Management (May 2018)
• Forum Guide to Collecting and Using Attendance Data (January 2018)
• Forum Guide to Data Visualization: A Resource for Education Agencies (October 2016)
• Forum Guide to Collecting and Using Disaggregated Data on Racial/Ethnic Subgroups (September 2016)

Award

I won an award given by the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society.

• William Faulkner–Wisdom Creative Writing Competition, Novel-in-Progress (2016) I was recognized as a Semi-Finalist for my novel The Water-Creatures.

Works Not Yet Published

I have written books that are not yet published.

• A Memoir: I wrote a memoir.
• Two Novembers: A Memoir of Love ’n’ Sex in Sonnets (17,000 words; 155 sonnets) Some of the poems within this collection have been published.
• The Water-Creatures: A Literary/Historical Novel (86,000 words) This is book 1 in a series called the Songbird Cycle.

Works in Progress

The following works are in progress.

• Books 2, 3, and 4 in the Songbird Cycle: Literary/Historical Novels (approx. 80,000-100,000 words each) There are four books in the series that begins with The Water-Creatures. Books 2, 3, and 4 are written, but not yet polished.