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POETRY

Fence - Issue 36, Winter Early 2020, Volume 20 No. 2
  • "After Stripping out the Hillside in Order to Lay the Highway, the Good Old Boys Inadvertently Uncover Acidic Pyrite Rock and Have to Call in the Department of Environmental Protection Before the Watershed Goes to Shit"

Ninth Letter - Spring/Summer 2019
  • "After Wading Through the Marsh of Gilgo Beach for Nineteen Months, the Good Old Boys Eventually Uncover the Skeletal Remains of Shannan Gilbert Tucked in a Very Tough, Desolate, Tangled Mess, as Well as the Bodies of Other Women"*
               *Anthologized in Best New Poets 2019

The Saranac Review - Issue 14, 2018-2019
  • "The Good Old Boys Draw up Schematics for Rigging a Window with a Shotgun and Some String"*
               *Nominated for the Pushcart Prize
  • "The Good Old Boys Call Upkeep Because the Front Door’s Been Sticking Again"

The Journal - Volume 42.3, Summer 2018
  • "Instructions for Coping"

Salamander - Issue 45, Fall/Winter 2017-2018
  • "The Good Old Boys Learn a Thing or Two About Digging and in the Meanwhile Aristotle Calls Some Bullshit 'Aether' or Maybe 'Quintessence'"

TriQuarterly - online, Issue 152, Summer/Fall 2017
  • "The Boys Work on a To-Scale Replica Miniature Model of Robinson Jeffers's Castle"

Hotel Amerika - Vol 15, Winter 2017
  • "A Case for the Good Old Boys, in Which We Meet Brutality and Realize Ignoring it is Impossible"
  • "The Good Old Boys, as Paper and Glass"

Hobart - online, November 29, 2016​
  • "Comeuppance for the Good Old Boys at the El Club Scorpion"

Sonora Review - Issue 70, Fall 2016
  • "The Good Old Boys Take One Last Look Down the Valley"

PROSE

Fourth Genre - Volume 22, No. 2, Fall 2020
  • "Fear and the Mesa (South on Utah State Route 261)" (nonfiction)

Fugue - online, Issue 54, Spring 2018
  • "In 1953, the Inuit Told Us of Nanuq" (fiction)

BULL - online, May 8, 2017
  • "Virgil Palely Loitering" (fiction)
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