Published Articles

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.

• 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)

Works Not Yet Published

I have written books that are not yet published.

• Two Novembers: A Memoir of Love ’n’ Sex in Sonnets (17,000 words; 155 sonnets)
• The Water-Creatures: A Literary/Historical Novel (86,000 words) This is book 1 in a series called the Songbird Cycle.

Published Poetry

I am published in Beltway Poetry Quarterly.

• Sonnet 129 (April 15, 2020) This poem is part of my unpublished sonnet sequence Two Novembers: A Memoir of Love ’n’ Sex in Sonnets.
• Sonnet 130 (April 15, 2020) This poem is part of my unpublished sonnet sequence Two Novembers: A Memoir of Love ’n’ Sex in Sonnets.

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 in Progress

The following works are in progress. Stay tuned!

• A Memoir: I am researching and writing a memoir.
• 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.