Bound to Please
Book Publishing in Wisconsin
Wisconsin People & Ideas Magazine
Winter/Spring 2023
A look at Wisconsin’s long history of small- and mid-sized presses focusing on regional writers, as well as new micro- and hybrid-press
Open Book
Wisconsin People & Ideas Magazine
Winter/Spring 2019
When Corrine’s father comes home with video surveillance equipment, planning to make what he calls the first ever “real reality show,” she is forced to deal with a dark reality.
How To Play With Fire
The Other Stories Podcast
February 2017
Sometimes getting what you want isn’t all its cracked up to be. An interview with host, Ilana Masad, follows the story.
Everything Burns
2nd Place
Annual Fiction Contest
Wisconsin People & Ideas Magazine
Winter/Spring 2022
“An intimate and fascinating look at life inside communist Cuba. The young narrator feels the weight of his family, his race, and his gender as he navigates his mother’s illness and the expectations he feels unequipped to fulfill.”
~Fiction Judge, Chris Fink
Demise
Fictive Dream
September 2017
At the end of a long teaching career, strict and exacting Miss Brill finds herself with the opportunity to break her usual pattern and show compassion toward one of her students.
Our Hoyles
Literally Stories
June 2017
Caught between her sister’s disapproval of her marriage and her “slam card playing husband,” Delores has an opportunity to take the first step toward asserting herself.
APrayer4You.com
Moot Point Magazine
February 2023
With her new husband debilitated by a mysterious condition, Isabelle passes the hours next to his hospital bed examining their relationship, her beliefs, and the business card for a prayer chain website that has found its way into her hands.
Night Vision
Solstice Literary Magazine
January 2016
In a fit of insomnia, Iraq war veteran, Brad takes to the streets of his Midwestern city wearing night vision goggles.
Brush Strokes
Pink Panther Magazine
September 2018
Abstract artist, Anna’s creative spark takes a surprising turn in response to the misogynistic paintings of Max, the assistant at a gallery where Anna would like to show her work.