Publications, Productions, & Feathers in my Cap

StoryQuarterly, Camden, NJ, Issue #58, May 2026 Forthcoming publication of lyric essay, “Auto Fiction”

Auburn Public Theater, Auburn, NY, 1st Annual Auburn Fringe Festival, March 21, 2026, mainstage performance of “The Plea”

Redhouse Arts Center, Syracuse, NY, BabelFest New Play, September 2025 staged reading of  “The Plea,” picked from a national selection process seeking new plays  

Yale Educator Award, New Haven, CT, 2025 Award granted yearly to select high school educators for excellence in teaching

Librettist for Voir Dire (composer: Matthew Peterson), a chamber opera set in a small-town Wisconsin courthouse—winner of the Opera Vista Competition, Houston, TX, 2011; showcased at the Fort Worth Opera Frontiers Festival, 2014; premiered on April 23, 2017, in Fort Worth, TX; performed at the Berklee College of Music in 2024. 

Five Points, Atlanta, GA, Vol. 21, Winter 2024 Publication of lyric essay, “A Son’s Primer”

Scholar, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Ripton, VT, August 16 – 26, 2023 Selected as a Scholar for the 2023 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference

EPOCH, Ithaca, NY, Issue #70 no. 1, Winter 2023 Publication of story “Strangers”, subsequently nominated by editors for a Pushcart Prize

Stone Canoe, Syracuse, NY, Issue #15 Guest fiction editor 

SALT nominee, 2020 Twice nominated for Syracuse Live Theater Award for Best Supporting Actor for performances in Arsenic and Old Lace and Wait Until Dark 

Grant recipient, ArtRage Gallery, Syracuse, NY, 2019-2020 Received grant from Humanities New York to co-teach a year-long ekphrastic reading series based on gallery exhibits

Scholar, The Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Sewanee, TN, July 16 – 28, 2019 Selected as a Peter Taylor Scholar for the 2019 Sewanee Writers’ Conference

StoryQuarterly, Camden, NJ, Issue #52, Fall 2019 “Junior”

JuxtaProse, Springfield, OR, Issue #20, Summer 2019 “Other People”

Great River Review, Minneapolis, MN, Issue #65, 2018 “Studies in the New Testament”

Image Journal, Seattle, WA, Issue #95, Winter 2018 “The Stand-In”

One Story, New York, NY, Issue #216, April 2016 “Catacombs,” issue #216, subsequently featured in the Pushcart Anthology (Volume XLII)