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Curriculum Vitae

Awards & Honours

• Nominated for the 2009 Dwarf Stars Award and included in The 2009 Dwarf Stars Anthology: The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Short Poetry of 2008 with “Werepenguin.”
• Winner of Asimov’s Science Fiction‘s Readers’ Awards for Best Poem of 2008, for “Deaths on Other Planets.” (reprinted here)
• First Place winner of the Strange Horizons 2005 Reader’s Choice Awards for Poetry for “The Rainy Season.”
• Third Place winner of the Strange Horizons 2004 Reader’s Choice Awards for Fiction for “Walking Hibernation.”

Invited Appearances

• Saturday, 6 March 2010. Panel discussion and fiction and poetry readings. 2010: A Space Oddity, Shelby Hall, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL.
• Friday, 11 May 2007. Featured poet, followed by an open mic. The Poets Corner, Unitarian Universalist Church, White Wing School Chapel, 58 Lowell St, Nashua, NH.
• Friday, 16 September 2005. Featured reader, preceded by a reading by fiction writer Aronne McCoy and followed by an open mic. Linebaugh Public Library, 105 West Vine Street, Murfreesboro, TN.

Memberships

• Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America
• Science Fiction Poetry Association
• Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia

Publications

Poetry

Books

• The Glaze from Breaking. Exeter, England: Stride Publications, 2005. ISBN 1-905024-00-2.

Anthologies, Chapbooks & Periodicals

• “The Grave Marker.” Anthology of Every Day Poets. Forthcoming.
• “Tender Aliens.” The Magazine of Speculative Poetry. Forthcoming.
• “Love in the Time of Alien Invasion.” The Magazine of Speculative Poetry. Forthcoming.
• “Improving on Nature.” Strange Horizons. Forthcoming.
• “autumn visit.” Scifaikuest. Forthcoming November 2010 print edition.
• “The Casualty Notification Officer” and “Everything that Divides.” Prick of the Spindle. Forthcoming Vol. 4.3, September 2010.
• “Votive.” Aoife’s Kiss. Forthcoming September 2010.
• “Kroger Koan.” Four and Twenty: Short Form Poetry. July 2010 (Volume 3, Issue 7, p.15).
• “evening commute.” microcosms. 8 July 2010.
• “winter surprise.” microcosms. 24 June 2010.
• “Terzanelle for Dominion Beach.” Third Wednesday, Volume 2, Issue 2, Spring 2010, p. 21. ISSN 1937 7506.
• Rabbits on the whole are reluctant to read poetry: “Ah Inflorescence,” “Anniversary,” “Magic Rabbits” and “The Year in Review.” Stride Magazine, 27 April 2010.
• “leonids.” microcosms. 21 April 2010.
• “alien tourists.” microcosms. 1 April 2010.
• “Rex Sestina.” Orbis Quarterly International Literary Journal. Issue 150, Winter/Spring 2010, pp 70-71. ISSN 0300-4425.
• “winter downpour.” Scifaikuest. February 2010 print edition.
• “casino lights.” tinywords. Issue 9.1, 24 February 2010.
• “Back of the Drawer.” Four and Twenty: Short Form Poetry, Four and Twenty of the Week. 23 February 2010.
• “The Need for a Secure Airway.” Four and Twenty: Short Form Poetry. February 2010 (pdf).
• “The Family Culicidae.” Four and Twenty: Short Form Poetry. February 2010 (pdf).
• Edgewise: speculative poetry and fiction. Chapbook, self-published, February 2010. (No ISBN.)
• “A Kind of Honey.” Alba. #20, January 2010.
• “Werepenguin.” The 2009 Dwarf Stars Anthology: The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Short Poetry of 2008. Science Fiction Poetry Association, 2010. p. 9.
• “The Butterfly Factory,” “Charon’s Midlife Crisis” and “The Gesture Almost Happening.” 42 Magazine, Summer 2009.
• “Thirteen Scifaiku for Blackbirds.” Strange Horizons. 12 October 2009.
• “Self-Sufficiency.” My Poem Rocks, 6 July 2009.
• “Cicadas.” 42 Magazine, Spring 2009.
• “Thaw.” Amaze: The Cinquain Journal, Spring 2009 (Volume 7, No. 1).
• “The Hum of Mosquitoes.” Tails from Poetic Oceans, 15 April 2009.
• “The Grave Marker.” Every Day Poets, 9 April 2009.
• “Northern Lights.” Astropoetica, Spring 2009.
• “The Hotel.” Riddle Fence. Winter 2009, Issue #3.
• “Eligibility for Citizenship,” “The Trendelenburg Position” and “We’ll Call Them Martyrs.” Clockwise Cat, Issue 13, March 2009.
• “The Hitch in Yr Getalong.” My Poem Rocks, 22 March 2009.
• “Evolution.” Mise En Poem, 22 March 2009.
• “Hiccups.” My Poem Rocks, 22 February 2009.
• “matter and anti-matter.” Scifaikuest. February 2009 online edition.
• “afternoon heat.” Scifaikuest. February 2009 print edition.
• “Cunt,” “Deaths on Other Planets,” “Guest Room,” “North Shore, Lake Superior” and “Throwing Signs.” Concelebratory Shoehorn Review, 1 February 2009.
• “Crack the Whip Prohibited.” My Poem Rocks, 19 January 2009.
• “Homing Instincts.” Alba, Issue #18, December 2008.
• “Angels We Have Heard On High.” Big Toe Review, December 2008.
• “winter wind through.” Roadrunner Haiku Journal, November 2008 Issue VIII:4.
• “travel to old age,” “the moon’s astonished,” “sunsail opens wide” and “the planet’s end is here.” Poetry, Literature and Libraries, Things Japanese in Tennessee, Version 3.0, Japan-America Society of Tennessee (JASTN). Produced by Duthie Learning. September 2008.
• “Larix laricina Anaphora.” Alba, #17, June 2008.
• “Variations on Pablo Neruda.” Umbrella: A Journal of Poetry and Kindred Prose, Summer 2008.
• “Bodies Make Poor Lenses” and “Vertigo.” Astropoetica, Volume 6.2, Spring 2008, ISSN 1559-6052.
• “Deaths on Other Planets.” Asimov’s Science Fiction. Vol. 32, Nos. 4 & 5 (Whole Nos. 387 & 388), April/May 2008, p.237. ISSN 1065-2698. Winner of the Asimov’s Readers’ Awards for Best Poem of 2008. (Phrases from “Deaths on Other Planets” have been added to F.J. Bergmann’s Fully Automatic Plot Generator.)
• “Werepenguin.” Strange Horizons, 10 March 2008.
• “Venusian Girls Are Better.” Coyote Wild. January 2008 Vol 2 Issue 1.
• “The Aviary.” Chizine, Issue #35 (January – March 2008).
• “Calendar of Dreams” (corrected version; originally published issue 182). Stand Magazine, Volume 7(4) 2007, Issue 184, pp. 73 – 74. ISSN 0038-9366.
• “Glorybower,” “The Ghost Road” and “Long Weekend.” Concelebratory Shoehorn Review. September 1, 2007.
• “Footprints Drying on the Stairs.” New Hampshire Poet Showcase, From NH Poet Laureate, Pat Fargnoli.
• “Spring in Rutherford County.” Dreams and Nightmares. No.77. p. 8. ISSN 0897-0238.
• “Charon’s Midlife Crisis.” The Magazine of Speculative Poetry. Vol. 8 No. 1 (Spring 2007), p.18. ISSN 8755-8785.
• “Calendar of Dreams” and “The Villain In The Piece.” Stand Magazine, Volume 7(2) 2007, Issue 182, pp. 56 – 57. ISSN 0038-9366.
• “Last Will and Testament.” Chizine, Issue #31 (January-March 2007).
• “The Undead in Hospital.” Alba, #14, January 2007.
• Otherwise: Speculative Poems. Chapbook, self-published, 2007. (No ISBN.)
• “Personal.” Big Toe Review, Summer 2006.
• “Evenings at Brownlow Park” and “Public Gardens.” Alba, #13, July 2006.
• “The Bather.” Strange Horizons, 3 July 2006.
• “Cherries for Buttons.” Strange Horizons, 27 February 2006.
• “Muffler Men Revisited.” andwerve, February 2006.
• “Auto Biographies,” “God Bless This Twenty Dollar Bill,” “The King’s Ransom,” “The Kiss,” “Mirror Points,” “Old Sailors Become Seagulls,” “Snorkeling,” “Throwing Signs” and “What Sharp Teeth You Have.” The Allotment: New Lyric Poets. Edited by Andy Brown. Devon, UK: Stride Books, 2006, pp. 105-113. ISBN 190502407X.
• “Re Member Ies.” flashquake: an online journal of flash literature. Fall 2005.
• “Sister, I’m Telling You,” “Waiting to Happen” and “We’re Still Girls.” The Magazine of Speculative Poetry (Vol.7, No.3, Autumn 2005). pp. 2-4.
• “The Greening.” Strange Horizons, 17 October 2005.
• “Wrinkles.” Salon.com, in “The body beat goes on,” August 23, 2005.
• “Everyman” and “Muffler Men and Uniroyal Girls.” Big Toe Review. July 2005.
• “Settler’s Song.” Strange Horizons, 25 July 2005.
• “The Translator.” Ultraverse E-Zine of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Vol. 2, No. 5, July 2005.
• “First Contact.” Strange Horizons, 13 June 2005.
• “The Rabbit in the Mirror” and “Vertigo.” Maquette Magazine, March 2005.
• “The Rainy Season.” Strange Horizons, 21 March 2005. First Place winner of their 2005 Reader’s Choice Awards for Poetry.
• “Surface Properties.” Strange Horizons, 31 January 2005.
• “5 a.m. on the Northwest Arm.” To Find Us: Words and Images of Halifax. Edited by Sue MacLeod. Halifax Regional Municipality, 2005. p. 16. ISBN 0-9687262-3-2.
• “Mirror Points.” Best of Strange Horizons 2. Edited by Kelli Carlson. Lethe Press, 2004. ISBN 1590210379.
• “Guest Room.” Vancouver, BC: Room of One’s Own (Vol. 27, No. 2). ISSN 0316-1609.
• “Here.” Antigonish, NS: The Antigonish Review (No. 135, Autumn 2003). p. 106. ISSN 003-5662.
• “Cunt.” Vallum (Vol. 2, No. 1, 2003) p. 17. ISSN 1496-5178.
• “With Every Step.” Sydney, NS: Pottersfield Portfolio (Vol. 22, No. 3, Winter/Spring 2003). p. 55. ISSN 0226-0840.
• “No Words.” Strange Horizons, 3 February 2003.
• “Backroads,” “Eight Ways To Think About Happiness,” “Home,” “Re Member Ies” and “Remains.” Reactions 4. Norfolk, UK: University of East Anglia, School of English and American Studies, Pen & Inc Press, 2003. pp. 141 – 144. ISBN 1-902913-18-3.
• “Mirror Points.” Strange Horizons, 23 December 2002.
• “Silverfish Poem.” Calgary, AB: Prairie Journal (Issue 38, 2002) p. 12. ISSN 0827-2921.
• “Silence.” Wirral, UK: Orbis Quarterly Literary International Journal (No. 122, August 2002). p. 59. ISSN 0300-4425.
• “Auto Biographies” and “Personal.” Fredericton, NB: The Fiddlehead (No. 212, Summer 2002) pp. 82 – 83. ISSN 015-0630.
• “Variations on Pablo Neruda.” Antigonish, NS: The Antigonish Review (No. 129, Spring 2002). p. 81. ISSN 003-5662.
• “Remains.” Calgary, AB: Dandelion (Vol. 27, No. 2, 2002). ISSN 0383-9575.
• “What Sharp Teeth You Have.” Kingston, ON: Quarry (Vol. 46, No. 3, Summer 2001) pp. 26 – 28. ISSN 0033-5266.
• “Crow Allegro.” Winnipeg, MB: Contemporary Verse 2 (Vol. 23, No. 3, Winter 2001) p. 26. ISSN 0831-9502.
• “Nemesis.” San Francisco, CA: Prosodia: The New College of California Poetics Journal (Vol. X, 2001) pp. 66 – 67. ISSN 1524-5365.
• “Traveler’s Anecdote,” “Home” and “Vertigo.” Church Point, NS: Feux chalins (No. 5, 2000) pp. 47 – 49. ISSN 1201-6020.
• “love letters.” New Westminster, BC: Event (Vol. 29, No 2, Summer 2000) p. 28. ISSN 0315-03770.
• “The Angel of Pathology” and “5 a.m. on the coast.” Antigonish, NS: The Antigonish Review (No. 121, Spring 2000) pp. 79-80. ISSN 0003-5661.
• “When he used mother as a swear word you should have known.” Vancouver, BC: Canadian Literature (No. 164, Spring 2000) p. 80. ISSN 0008-4360.
• Overcome by Water. Chapbook, self-published, 2000. (No ISBN.)
• “Three Flying Dreams and One Love Story,” “The Gallery” and “Archaeology.” Truro, NS: The Amethyst Review (Vol. 7, No. 2, Winter 1999) pp. 52 – 54. ISSN 1192-2478.
• “Things that Happened in My Absence.” Sydney, NS: Pottersfield Portfolio (Vol. 19, No. 3, Summer 1999) p. 45. ISSN 0226-0840.
• “Crow Allegro.” Ottawa, ON: Litwit Review (Spring 1999) p. 8. ISSN 1488-1918.
• “Weight Loss.” Calgary, AB: Dandelion (Vol. 25, No. 2, 1999) p. 147. ISSN 0383-9575.
• “Vignette from Quebec Major Juniors.” Ice: new writing on hockey. Edmonton: Spotted Cow Press, 1999. pp. 31 – 32. ISBN 0-9694665-4-4.
• “The Angel between the Sheets.” Regina, SK: Grain (Vol. 26, No. 1, Summer 1998) p. 49. ISSN 0315-7423.
• “How to Write a Canadian Poem.” Truro, NS: The Amethyst Review (Vol. 5, N0. 2, Winter 1997) pp. 23 – 24. ISSN 1192-2478.
• “Eight Ways to Think About Happiness” and “North Shore, Lake Superior.” Antigonish, NS: The Antigonish Review (No. 113, Spring 1998) pp.143 – 144. ISSN 0003-5661.
• “Enough” and “The Tongue is Nothing.” Church Point, NS: Feux chalins: Littératures des Maritimes (No. 2, 1996) pp. 28, 74 – 75. ISSN 1201-6020.

Fiction

• “Toy Boy.” Per Contra: The International Journal of the Arts, Literature and Ideas. Forthcoming.
• “Sundowning.” Strange Horizons. 22 February 2010.
• “Little Ambushes.” Escape Pod, 22 October 2009.
• “Swan Song.” Strange Horizons, 6 October 2008.
• “Little Ambushes.” Strange Horizons, 20 August 2007.
• “The Boatman.” Edmonton, AB: On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic (Vol. 19, No. 2, #69, Summer 2007).
• “Harvest.” Strange Horizons, 26 March 2007.
  Included in the 2007 Recommended Reading List for Not if You Were The Last Short Story on Earth.
• “The Dollhouse.” Stirring, Vol.8, #12, December 2006.
• “Nobody’s That Good All the Time.” Southern Gothic, Vol. 1 (WordArts, Inc., 2006), pp. 18-22.
• “The Purple Hippopotamus Wading Pool.” Strange Horizons, 6 March 2006.
• “Dogwood Winter Coming.” DawnSky, October 2005.
• “Seeing Red.” Fredericton, NB: The Fiddlehead. No. 224, Summer 2005. pp. 19-22. ISSN 015-0630.
• “Nobody’s That Good All the Time.” Southern Gothic, May 2005.
• “Walking Hibernation.” Strange Horizons, 4 October 2004. Third Place winner of their 2004 Reader’s Choice Awards for Fiction.
• “First Impressions.” Falcon: Short Story Contest Winners (chapbook). Halifax, 1999.

Microfiction

• “Stolen Lighters” and “Work Requirements.” On a Narrow Windowsill. Folded Word. Anthology forthcoming August 2010.
• “Ribbons. Lightning.” Brain Harvest: An Almanac of Bad Ass Speculative Fiction, 12 September 2009.
• “Work Requirements.” picfic, 18 August 2009.
• “Stolen Lighters.” picfic, 17 August 2009.
• “The First Time.” (Serialized: 1, 2 & 3.) Nanoism, July-August 2009.
• “She’s an innovative musician…” Tweet the Meat, 16 July 2009.
• “In the brownstone…” escarp, 4 July 2009.
• “Ring Around the Coffeepot.” 55 word stories, January 2007.
• “The First Time.” 55 word stories, September 2006. Nominated for their second annual Readers’ Choice Awards.
• “Ribbons. Lightning.” Edmonton, AB: On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic (Vol. 16, No. 1, #56, Spring 2004).
• “The Bridge.” Ottawa, ON: Litwit Review (Winter 2000) p. 34. ISSN 1488-1918.

Creative Non-Fiction & Other Materials

• “Got Your Back Door.” The Raging Face, January 28, 2008.
• “Got Your Back Door.” Sydney, NS: Pottersfield Portfolio (Vol. 23, No. 2, Winter/Spring 2004) pp. 81 – 84. ISSN 0226-0840.
• “Reading, ‘riting and ‘rithmatic.” Eastword, the bi-monthly newsletter of the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia, March/April 2003, pp. 5-6.
• “Complementary Elements: Élémental, paintings by Wayne Boucher and sculptures and masks by Claude Chaloux.” Visual Arts News: The Magazine of Visual Arts Nova Scotia (Vol. 25, No. 2, Summer 2002) pp. 20 – 21. ISSN 004-0512.
• “Caught in the Web.” Regular column, Eastword, July/August 1998 to January/February 2002.
• Miraware Oasis 1.0 Administration Manual. Edmonton, AB: CSM Systems, Inc, 2001.
• Miraware Oasis 1.0 User Manual. Edmonton, AB: CSM Systems, Inc, 2001.
• “Tips for Beginning Writers on Finding and Approaching a Publisher.” Eastword, November/December 1997.