This site is a door, slightly ajar, through which I may reveal some of myself while the rest remains private, usually in the woods, untangling my basset hound's leash from a tree as my boxer-catahoula-lab-husky mix looks on, ever patient.

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Books

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​Welcome to Kinston, a small town in northern Michigan just an hour southeast of the Mackinac Bridge.

​On a sweltering August afternoon in 2001, Sarah Fairweather crashes her father’s classic Corvette through the windows of the Trainstop, the town’s only restaurant, owned and operated by her grandmother, Lily Patria. Sarah kills her husband and an innocent woman eating ice cream.

​Against the backdrop of Kinston with its rural inhabitants, worries, and power struggles, three generations of Patria women strive to cope with Sarah’s actions and the compelling demands of family, in-laws, and community, the pressures of love, and their contradictory definitions of happiness, as they ultimately decide whether to rebuild the restaurant that binds them or close it forever.

​Purchase a copy on Amazon here.

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My second novel, The Fugue Sisters, is finished and searching for a home now.
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Other Publications

Various poems and stories have appeared in the award-winning NMC Magazine​, of

​which I am the literary adviser.
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Find "Nine Months" online in Bodega, 126. 
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"To Live a Little" is now available online in Isele Quarterly's Hedonism issue. 

Order a copy of Issue #29 of Snake Nation Review to read "A+ Burial."

Read "Phases of Reparations" online in the December 2019 issue of Unearthed.

​"The Life They Both Wanted" published in Issue #10, Expectant, of the Adanna Literary

​Journal.
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​"Everything that Matters" was printed in Volume 17 of ​The Offbeat. 

"God is Good" was included in Volume 17, No. 2, Due North, of ​Crab Orchard Review.

"Drowning" was my very first published story, flash fiction in The Villa, the online arm of

​Straylight Literary Arts Magazine, which is now just Straylight.
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