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Curriculum Vitae

Awards & Honours

• Winner of the 10-10-10 Poetry Contest, an online readers’ choice-type award, with “Hamiltons.”
• Saturday, 6 March 2010. Panel discussion and fiction and poetry readings. 2010: A Space Oddity, Shelby Hall, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL.
• 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)
• 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.
• First Place winner of the Strange Horizons 2005 Reader’s Choice Awards for Poetry for “The Rainy Season.”
• 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.
• Third Place winner of the Strange Horizons 2004 Reader’s Choice Awards for Fiction for “Walking Hibernation.”

Memberships

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

Publications

Poetry

Books

• The Glaze from Breaking. Nashville, TN: Upper Rubber Boot Books, 2011. ISBN 978-1-937794-09-5 (Amazon); 978-1-937794-11-8 (epub coming Spring 2012).
• The Glaze from Breaking. Exeter, England: Stride Publications, 2005. ISBN 1-905024-00-2.

Anthologies, Chapbooks & Periodicals

• “Larix laracina Anaphora.” The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume VI: Tennessee. William Wright, Paul Ruffin, Jesse Graves, eds. Huntsville, TX, USA: Texas Review Press, 2013. Forthcoming.
• “Thirteen Scifaiku for Blackbirds.” StarShipSofa. Forthcoming.
• “Whose Tongue is the Wind’s Tongue?” Web/Australia: Cordite Poetry Review. Electronica issue (Vol.36), 1 December 2011. ISSN 1328-2107.
• “Getting Wet from Head to Toe.” St. John’s, NL, Canada: Riddle Fence. Forthcoming November 2011.
• “Settler’s Song.” StarShipSofa, 208, at 1:19:25.
• “loon calls over the water.” Web/USA: Four and Twenty: Short Form Poetry. August 2011, Volume 4, Issue 8, p.14.
• “Bumblebee.” The Furnace Review. Summer 2011.
• “robot dreams,” “robots at the park” and “the moon’s astonished.” microcosms. 10 July 2011.
• “dandelion cracked sidewalk.” escarp. 8 July 2011.
• “Love in the Time of Alien Invasion” and “Tender Aliens.” Beloit, WI: The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Spring 2011, Volume 9, No. 1. pp.20-23.
• “The Butterfly Factory.” Knoxville, TN/Web: Stirring, Volume 13, Edition 5, May 2011.
• “Bluebeard.” Web/USA: Chizine, Volume 47, Week 5, May 2 – May 8, 2011.
• “Rex Sestina.” Knoxville, TN/Web: Stirring, Vol.13, #4, April 2011.
• “Summer in Tennessee.” Web/USA: Four and Twenty: Short Form Poetry, March 2011, Volume 4, Issue 3, p.23.
• “autumn morning—,” “lazy Sunday—” and “warm heater—.” Web/Cheyenne, Wyoming: Cherry Blossom Review, 18 January 2011.
• “Nature Show.” Web/USA: Four and Twenty: Short Form Poetry, 18 January 2011.
• “dusk epiphany.” Web/USA: escarp, 12 January 2011.
• “An Argument in Favor of Snow.” Web/Canada: Every Day Poets, 23 December 2010.
• “The Grave Marker.” The Best of Every Day Poets One. Camille Gooderham Campbell, ed. December 2010. p.71.
• “autumn visit.” Cedar Rapids, IA: Scifaikuest, November 2010 print edition. ISSN 1558-9730. p.5.
• “Votive.” Cedar Rapids, IA: Aoife’s Kiss: A Magazine of SF/F/H, September 2010, p.42. ISSN 1558-9749.
• “The Casualty Notification Officer” and “Everything that Divides.” Web/USA: Prick of the Spindle, Vol. 4.3, September 2010.
• “Improving on Nature.” Web/USA: Strange Horizons, 6 September 2010.
• “Kroger Koan.” Web/USA: Four and Twenty: Short Form Poetry, July 2010, Volume 3, Issue 7, p.15.
• “evening commute.” Web/USA: microcosms, 8 July 2010.
• “winter surprise.” Web/USA: microcosms, 24 June 2010.
• “dandelion sun.” Japan: The Mainichi Daily News, 19 June, 2010.
• “Terzanelle for Dominion Beach.” Ypsilanti, MI: 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.” Web/Exeter, England, UK: Stride Magazine, 27 April 2010.
• “leonids.” Web/USA: microcosms, 21 April 2010.
• “alien tourists.” Web/USA: microcosms, 1 April 2010.
• “Rex Sestina.” West Kirby, Wirral, UK: Orbis Quarterly International Literary Journal, Issue 150, Winter/Spring 2010, pp.70-71. ISSN 0300-4425.
• “winter downpour.” Cedar Rapids, IA: Scifaikuest. February 2010 print edition.
• “casino lights.” Web/USA: tinywords, Issue 9.1, 24 February 2010.
• “Back of the Drawer.” Web/USA: Four and Twenty: Short Form Poetry, Four and Twenty of the Week, 23 February 2010.
• “The Family Culicidae” and “The Need for a Secure Airway.” Web/USA: Four and Twenty: Short Form Poetry, February 2010.
• Edgewise: speculative poetry and fiction. Chapbook, self-published, February 2010. (No ISBN.)
• “A Kind of Honey.” Web/USA: Alba, #20, January 2010.
• “Werepenguin.” The 2009 Dwarf Stars Anthology: The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Short Poetry of 2008. Deborah P Kolodji and Stephen M. Wilson, eds. Covina, CA: Science Fiction Poetry Association, 2010. p.9. (No ISBN.)
• “The Butterfly Factory,” “Charon’s Midlife Crisis” and “The Gesture Almost Happening.” Oakland, CA: 42 Magazine, Summer 2009.
• “Thirteen Scifaiku for Blackbirds.” Web/USA: Strange Horizons, 12 October 2009.
• “Self-Sufficiency.” Web/USA: My Poem Rocks, 6 July 2009.
• “Cicadas.” Oakland, CA: 42 Magazine, Spring 2009.
• “Thaw.” Web/USA: Amaze: The Cinquain Journal, Spring 2009 (Volume 7, No. 1).
• “The Hum of Mosquitoes.” Web/USA: Tails from Poetic Oceans, 15 April 2009.
• “The Grave Marker.” Web/Canada: Every Day Poets, 9 April 2009.
• “Northern Lights.” Web/USA: Astropoetica, Spring 2009.
• “The Hotel.” St. John’s, NL: Riddle Fence, Winter 2009, Issue #3, p.55.
• “Eligibility for Citizenship,” “The Trendelenburg Position” and “We’ll Call Them Martyrs.” Web/USA: Clockwise Cat, Issue 13, March 2009.
• “The Hitch in Yr Getalong.” Web/USA: My Poem Rocks, 22 March 2009.
• “Evolution.” Web/USA: Mise En Poem, 22 March 2009.
• “Hiccups.” Web/USA: My Poem Rocks, 22 February 2009.
• “matter and anti-matter.” Web/Cedar Rapids, IA: Scifaikuest, February 2009 online edition.
• “afternoon heat.” Cedar Rapids, IA: Scifaikuest, February 2009 print edition, p.10. ISSN 1558-9730.
• “Cunt,” “Deaths on Other Planets,” “Guest Room,” “North Shore, Lake Superior” and “Throwing Signs.” Web/USA: Concelebratory Shoehorn Review, 1 February 2009.
• “Crack the Whip Prohibited.” Web/USA: My Poem Rocks, 19 January 2009.
• “Homing Instincts.” Web/USA: Alba, Issue #18, December 2008.
• “Angels We Have Heard On High.” Web/USA: Big Toe Review, December 2008.
• “winter wind through.” Web/USA: 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.” Nashville, TN: 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.” Web/USA: Alba, #17, June 2008.
• “Variations on Pablo Neruda.” Web/USA: Umbrella: A Journal of Poetry and Kindred Prose, Summer 2008.
• “Bodies Make Poor Lenses” and “Vertigo.” Web/USA: Astropoetica, Volume 6.2, Spring 2008. ISSN 1559-6052.
• “Deaths on Other Planets.” New York, NY: 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.” Web/USA: Strange Horizons, 10 March 2008.
• “Venusian Girls Are Better.” Web/USA: Coyote Wild, January 2008 Vol 2 Issue 1.
• “The Aviary.” Web/USA: Chizine, Issue #35, January – March 2008.
• “Calendar of Dreams” (corrected version; originally published issue 182). Richmond, VA and Leeds, UK: Stand Magazine, Volume 7(4) 2007, Issue 184, pp.73-74. ISSN 0038-9366.
• “Glorybower,” “The Ghost Road” and “Long Weekend.” Web/USA: 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.” Tuscaloosa, AL: Dreams and Nightmares, No.77, p.8. ISSN 0897-0238.
• “Charon’s Midlife Crisis.” Beloit, WI: 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.” Richmond, VA and Leeds, UK: Stand Magazine, Volume 7(2) 2007, Issue 182, pp.56-57. ISSN 0038-9366.
• “Last Will and Testament.” Web/USA: Chizine, Issue 31, January-March 2007.
• “The Undead in Hospital.” Web/USA: Alba, #14, January 2007.
• Otherwise: Speculative Poems. Chapbook, self-published, 2007. (No ISBN.)
• “Personal.” Web/USA: Big Toe Review, Summer 2006.
• “Evenings at Brownlow Park” and “Public Gardens.” Web/USA: Alba, #13, July 2006.
• “The Bather.” Web/USA: Strange Horizons, 3 July 2006.
• “Cherries for Buttons.” Web/USA: Strange Horizons, 27 February 2006.
• “Muffler Men Revisited.” Web/USA: 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. Andy Brown, ed. Devon, UK: Stride Books, 2006. pp.105-113. ISBN 190502407X.
• “Re Member Ies.” Web/USA: flashquake: an online journal of flash literature, Fall 2005.
• “Sister, I’m Telling You,” “Waiting to Happen” and “We’re Still Girls.” Beloit, WI: The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Vol.7, No.3, Autumn 2005, pp.2-4.
• “The Greening.” Web/USA: Strange Horizons, 17 October 2005.
• “Wrinkles.” Salon.com, in “The body beat goes on,” August 23, 2005.
• “Everyman” and “Muffler Men and Uniroyal Girls.” Web/USA: Big Toe Review, July 2005.
• “Settler’s Song.” Web/USA: Strange Horizons, 25 July 2005.
• “The Translator.” Web/USA: Ultraverse E-Zine of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Vol. 2, No. 5, July 2005.
• “First Contact.” Web/USA: Strange Horizons, 13 June 2005.
• “The Rabbit in the Mirror” and “Vertigo.” Web/UK: Maquette Magazine, March 2005.
• “The Rainy Season.” Web/USA: Strange Horizons, 21 March 2005. First Place winner of their 2005 Readers’ Choice Awards for Poetry.
• “Surface Properties.” Web/USA: 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, NS: Halifax Regional Municipality, 2005. p. 16. ISBN 0-9687262-3-2.
• “Mirror Points.” Best of Strange Horizons 2. Kelli Carlson, ed. Maple Shade, NJ: 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.” Montreal, QC: 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.” Web/USA: Strange Horizons, 3 February 2003.
• “Backroads,” “Eight Ways To Think About Happiness,” “Home,” “Re Member Ies” and “Remains.” Reactions 4: New Poetry. Esther Morgan, ed. 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.” Web/USA: 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: Littératures des Maritimes, 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 1999m 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. Dale Jacobs, ed. Edmonton, AB: 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, No. 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

Books

• “A Multitude of Daggers.” Self-published/Upper Rubber Boot Books, 2011. Kindle edition: ISBN 978-1-937794-01-9.

Short Fiction

• “Seeing Red.” Dana Sent Me, an anthology of work by forum members at the P&W Speakeasy. Forthcoming 2012.
• “Facial Deficits.” PANK 6. January 2012.
• “Toy Boy.” Per Contra: The International Journal of the Arts, Literature and Ideas. Fall 2010 – 5th Anniversary Issue.
• “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.” Knoxville, TN/Web: 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

• “The unicorn pulls…” (formerly “Work Requirements”). Trapeze Magazine, 3 March 2011.
• “She’s an innovative musician…“Trapeze Magazine, 12 February 2011.
• “Stolen Lighters” and “Work Requirements.” On a Narrow Windowsill: Fiction and Poetry Folded onto Twitter. J. S. Graustein and Rose Auslander, eds. Rocklin, CA: Folded Word, 2010. pp.45-46. ISBN-13 978-1-61019-100-5.
• “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.
• “Tips for Beginning Writers on Finding and Approaching a Publisher.” Eastword, November/December 1997.

Work & Volunteer Experience

• Editor, Upper Rubber Boot Books, July 2011 to present.
• Co-editor (poetry), Dana Sent Me, an anthology of work by forum members at the P&W Speakeasy.
• Travel Grant Administrator, Speculative Literature Foundation, September 2010 to present.
• Volunteer, Nashville Public Library, August 2009 to present.
• Editor, Seven by Twenty, July 2009 to present.
• Freelance technical writer, CSM Systems, Inc (Miraware Oasis 1.0 Administration Manual and Miraware Oasis 1.0 User Manual), 2001.
• Executive Assistant, Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia, February 1997 to September 2001.
• Freelance web designer, Hackmatack Children’s Choice Book Awards and Pottersfield Press, January 2000 to present.