Craft Essays
“Raise Your Hand if You’ve Ever Been Personally Victimized by The Artist’s Way” (May 2023)
“For Better Creativity, Spring Clean Your Brain” (March 2023)
“How Do You Explain Climate Change to a Magnolia Tree?” (January 2023)
“Great Dialogue is the Art of the Unsaid” (November 2022)
“What Horror Can Teach Us” (October 2022)
“Decision Trees, Angry Bees, and Other Writer Brain Hacks” (September 2022)
“Lessons from the Climbing Wall” (August 2022)
“Diagnosing Writer’s Block: Symptoms, Remedies, and Prevention” (July 2022)
“Let Your Words Grow Wild” (June 2022)
“Are Your Words Working Hard Enough?” (May 2022)
“Why You Should Embrace the Fallow Times” (April 2022)
“Are You an Accidental Info-Dumper?” (March 2022)
“The Rebirth of the Author: How Context Influences Craft” (February 2022)
“Four Ways to Silence Your Inner Comments Section” (January 2022)
“Keep Making Art, Even When the World is Ending” (December 2021)
“The Easy-ish Way to Create Believable, Unforgettable Fictional Worlds” (November 2021)
“Why You Should Tackle that Ambitious Dream Project Now” (October 2021)
“Active Protagonists are a Tool of the Patriarchy” (September 2021)
“Back to the Beginning: How Creation Myths Affect Character Motivation” (August 2021)
“Writing while Languishing: How to be Creative when You’re Feeling ‘Blah’” (July 2021)
“Kick Your Story Up a Notch by Knowing Your Character’s Conflict Style” (May 2021)
“Writer, Know Thyself” (April 2021)
“Six Writing Lessons from an Actual Backyard Gardener” (March 2021)
“Confessions of a Conflict-Avoidant Writer” (February 2021)
“What Studying Nonviolent Resistance Taught Me About Writing Stories That Matter” (December 2020)
Creative Nonfiction
“Trauma, Bookended” GRIFFEL (March 2020)
“Tunisia: Tourism in a Post-Terrorism World” Wanderlust Journal (November 2018)
“Oh, Let’s Ride: Music, Food, and Troubled Older Men” Barrelhouse’s HEARD: A Tribute to Anthony Bourdain (September 2018)
Fiction
“Locks” Menacing Hedge (Summer 2017)
Scholarship
Democracy & Society Journal, Vol. 11 Issue 1, Fall 2013: “Civil Society’s Role in Peaceful Democratic Unification: A Case Study of Yemen and Germany” (academic research, excerpt)
Contest Placings
Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Contest, Honorable Mention, “Locks” (June 2016)
Glimmer Train Family Matters Contest, Top 25, “On the Seventh Day” (April 2009)
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