Education

» M.F.A., Creative Writing, University of Florida, 2000.

» M.A., English, Southeastern Louisiana University, 1998.

» B.A., English, Southeastern Louisiana University, 1996.

Fiction (Novels)

» Dirty Little Angels (University of West Alabama, 2009)

Poetry (Books)

» Haunted Bones (Louisiana Literature Press, 2006)

Poetry (Chapbooks)

» Inventing an End (Lone Willow Press, 2002)

Individual Poems Published in Literary Journals

» “Botticelli’s Venus” Connecticut Review
» “The Birth of Night.” Prairie Schooner
» “Prozac” Connecticut Poetry Review
» “Kindergarten Portrait of My Mother” New Delta Review
» “Coma” South Dakota Review
» “My Grandfather’s Hands” Connecticut Poetry Review
» “Black Mare” Texas Review
» “I Cut Myself While My Husband Plants Flowers.” The Southeast Review
» “The Spirit of Bridget Bishop. New Delta Review
» “Photograph of a Missing Girl” Texas Review
» “Sober in a Dry County during Severe Weather” Louisiana Literature
» “Hypochondriac” and “Alzheimer’s” Caduceus.
» “Revolver” and “Gone” Story South
»  ”The Drowned Light.” Passages North
»  ”Ode to Gumbo” Southern Hum
»  “Habit.” Louisiana Literature
»  ”At a Filling Station, On the Anniversary of Your Death.” Louisiana Literature
»  ”September Funeral” (reprint) Story South.
»  ”The Ballad of Leander Trueblood. Southern Hum
» ”Inventing an End” (reprint) Story South
»  ”A Retired Voodoo Priestess Talks about Revenge” Southern Hum
»  “The Etymology of Love.” Lullwater Review
»  ”Apparition in a Divorce Decree.” Tar River Poetry
»  ”Cow Tipping Near Indian Creek” Southern Hum
» ”The Etymology of Science” Red Cedar Review
»  “Marie Laveau Talks about Magic” The Spoon River Poetry Review
»  “Inventing an End” Red Cedar Review
» “Apparition in a Marriage Certificate.” The Louisville Review
»  ”September Funeral” Half Tones to Jubilee
»  ”Raymond Livaudais Talks about Faith” The New York Quarterly
»  “Waiting to Leave” Half Tones to Jubilee
» “Envisioning the Marsh” Half Tones to Jubilee
» “The Etymology of Love.” Tundra
»  “Worn” Midwest Poetry Review
» “Winter Funeral.” Slipstream
»  “Unexpected Conditions” Midwest Poetry Review
»  “Ode to Laundromat Dryers” Small Pond Magazine of Literature
»  “The Dancing Men at The Rainbeaux Casino Lounge” Small Pond Magazine of Literature
»  “On Leaving the House Where I Spent My Youth.” Pegasus
» “The Blind Man Touches My Face.” Small Pond Magazine of Literature
»  “The Passing of the Eye.” Pegasus
» “Remembering Leanne Thibodeaux.” Midwest Poetry Review
» “Memories of Chartres Street.” Crab Creek Review
»  “The Lines That Separate Us.” Pegasus
» “My Stepfather Speaks to Me about Death.” Grasslands Review
» ”An Empty Window.” The Comstock Review
» “Dead Fox.” StorySouth

Individual Poems Published in Literature Anthologies

» Beyond Forgetting: Poems and Prose about Alzheimer’s Disease, Kent State University Press.
» In the Eye. Thunder Rain Press, 2006.
» In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself . MW Enterprises, 2002.

Fiction (Short Stories)

»  “Mean Blood” The Southeast Review (forthcoming)

» “Neighborhood Association” The Southeast Review (forthcoming)

»  “Sons of God” published in Summer 2005 issue of StorySouth

» “Riding the Devil’s Backbone” published in Issue 4 of Southern Hum”

Non-fiction

» “Contemporary Southern Writers: Slaves to the Old South” (Spring 2011 Issue of StorySouth)