Select Creative Publications
“A Prequel to My Sister’s,” The Writing Disorder (Winter 2021)
“For Thirty-Nine Years,” Superstition Review Issue 24 (Dec. 2019)
“A Reel Life Adventure,” Susquehanna Style (July 2019) – adapted from a Lancaster Story Slam story
“Land of Fire and Ice … and Elves?: What I Learned in Icelandic Elf School” Wanderlust: A Literary Travel Journal (March 2018)
“Things That Aren’t Theirs,” LA Review (June 2017)
Select Journalism & Trade Magazine Pieces
“Rooted: The Pull of Forests, Fields & Family” (Bentley Magazine, summer 2021 – COVER STORY)
“Content Marketing Crisis Mode: How Colleges Are Handling the Coronavirus” (The Content Strategist; April 2020)
“What Does an Author’s Website Need to Succeed?” (The Writer, 2018)
Recurring publications include:
- Administrative Eyecare
- Bentley Magazine
- Recruiting and Retaining Adult Learners (Wiley)
- The Writer
(for dozens of additional journalism and content writing, visit my Contently portfolio)
Books I’ve Edited/Compiled
Getting to the Truth: The Craft and Practice of Creative Nonfiction (Books by Hippocampus, 2021, with Rae Pagliarulo)
Main: An Anthology (Books by Hippocampus, 2021)
Ink: An Anthology (Books by Hippocampus, 2021)
Dine: An Anthology (Books by Hippocampus, 2019)
Air: An Anthology (Books by Hippocampus, 2018)
Selected Memories: Five Years of Hippocampus Magazine (Books by Hippocampus, 2016)
(to see all books published by Books by Hippocampus, visit its website)
Book Projects: Contributor or Subject Matter Expert
Contributor
- Foreword, Eclectica Magazine Beset Nonfiction V1: Celebrating 20 Years Online (2016)
- Six words of advice, The Best Advice in Six Words: Writers Famous and Obscure on Love, Sex, Money, Friendship, Family, Work, and Much More edited by Larry Smith of Six-Word Memoirs (St. Martin’s Griffin; November 2015)
- Case Study 16, “How Fictitious Alumni Increased Engagement from Real Alumni at MIT and Cornell University,” in (2013; EDUniverse Media)
Interviewed as Subject Matter Expert
- Engaging Students Through Social Media: Evidence-Based Practices for Use in Student Affairs by Reynol Junco (Jossey-Bass, 2014)
- The Low-Residency MFA Handbook: A Guide for Prospective Creative Writing Students by Lori A. May (Continuum, 2011)
- Nontraditional Women Persisting in Community College to Meet Their Educational Goals by Charlene Ann Lutes (Michigan State University Press, 2005)
Memoir (in progress): Door to Door
I moved. A lot. By age thirteen, I already had three dads and lived in more houses than years I was alive.
DOOR TO DOOR: A MEMOIR is an 80,000-word coming-of-age tale in the vein of THE GLASS CASTLE and THIS BOY’S LIFE with a hint of RUNNING WITH SCISSORS.
DOOR TO DOOR explores my childhood being raised by popular entertainers in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains and follows me through adolescence, where a geographical leap would distance me from my adoptive father.
Initial obstacles of being the chubby new seventh-grader with braces are replaced with bigger problems when my mother marries my archenemy, or as he calls himself, my “Groundation Officer.” While my mother works around the clock, I avoid being alone with my abusive, unemployed step-dad by starting an after-school job selling newspaper subscriptions door-to-door. My success at sales and quirky teenage adventures with the newspaper crew offer an escape from the harrowing family events unpacked at each new address.
While my mother and step-dad grow a family of their own, I grow up fast on the streets of Tulsa, finding the stability, affection, and acceptance I didn’t get at home from the boys with which I work–including my irresponsible boss. As I grow into adulthood, I learn the emptiness experienced as a child is still in my heart and set off to fill it.
I am presently seeking representation for DOOR TO DOOR: A MEMOIR.
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