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I have published prose and/or poetry in Turnrow, Adirondack Review, Paumanok
Review, Yankee Pot Roast, Monday Night, Elimae, H_NGM_N, The American Drivel Review, Poet Lore, Forklift OH, Euphony, Rattle,
Dicey Brown, Cordite, Cellar Door, Heat City Literary Review, Ghoti, Cranky, Three Candles, StorySouth, Canopic Jar, Juked,
Pindeldyboz, Mitochondria, Mars Hill Review, 13th Warrior Review, Monkeybicycle, Arkansas Review, Stirring, Ampersand,
Center, Small Press Review, Jabberwock Review, Orchid, Quick Fiction, Timber Creek Review, Hobart, Piplit, Bullfight, Potomac
Review, Big Muddy, Slant, Texas Poetry Review, Rockhurst Review, Wavelength, Lilliput Review, Pearl, Ducts, Sunny Outside,
Fish Drum, Mid-American Poetry Review, Dust, Iodine, Snakeskin (England), The
Melic Review, Thema, Kumquat Meringue, Blue Unicorn, The Spirit that Moves Us, Wind, Red Rock Review, BlazeVox, Concrete Wolf,
Memphis Magazine, Rhino, Visions International, others. I have work in the anthologies
Full Court: A Literary Anthology of Basketball
(Breakaway Books), Intimate Kisses: The Poetry of Sexual Pleasure (New World Press)
and others. I have been nominated many times for the Pushcart Prize.
I have these poetry chapbooks available: Piecework and For Toby, Everything for Toby,
from the Wing and a Wheel Press, Chin-Chin in
Eden, from Still Waters Press, and Dark on Purpose from Little Poem Press,
Short Story and Other Short Stories, from Parallel Press, The Hole in Sleep from Wood Works, The Agoraphobe’s Pandiculations
from Little Poem Press, and Following Richard Brautigan (an excerpt from my forthcoming
novel of the same name) (which won their Beat Writing contest) from Plan B Press, The Lita Conversation from Southern
Hum, The Chloe Poems from Maverick Duck Press, Pictures from Lang and Fellini from Sheltering Pines Press,
Grit from Amsterdam Press, Publisher, from Writer's Write Press.
One of my short stories was chosen for the 2002 edition of New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best, edited by Shannon Ravenel. One of my essays was chosen for
Dzanc Books' The Best of the Web 2009.
My novel-in-dialogue, Talk, was published
by Livingston Press in 2002. Raves from Lee Smith, Robert Olen Butler, Steve Stern, Debra Spark, Suzanne Kingsbury, Frederick
Barthelme and John Grisham. My 2nd novel, We are Billion-Year-Old Carbon, is also from Livingston Press. Kind words this time from George Singleton, Marshall
Chapman, Marshall Boswell and others. I have a new book of short stories, Listen: 29 Short Conversations, from
Brown Paper Publishing, and a full-length poetry collection, Some Identity Problems, (from which my poem, "God Bless the Experimental
Writers" comes) from Foothills Publishing. And two novels due out in the next year.
Two of my poems was chosed for Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac.
I've been a book reviewer (for The Commercial Appeal, BookPage, The Memphis Flyer),
fiction editor, university press sales rep, grant committee judge, father and son. With my wife I own Burke’s Book Store,
one of the country’s oldest (1875) and best independent bookstores.
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