Critical Books
Inscrutable
Houses: Metaphors of the Body in the Poems of Elizabeth Bishop. London
and Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1997.
Books of Poetry
Mother’s Maiden Name. Word Poetry, 2013.
Believing Their Shadows. Word Poetry, 2010.
Father’s
Occupation, Mother’s Maiden Name. Winner of The Dogfish Head Poetry
Contest. Annapolis: Bay Oaks Publishers, 2007. Judge: Grace
Cavillieri. Washington, D.C.
Twenty Poems: An Online Chapbook. The Poets. Alsop Review, Spring 2003.
Book Chapters
“The
Sea as the ‘Ultimate Other’ in the Poems of Elizabeth Bishop.” Reading
the Sea: New Essays on Sea Literature. Ed. Kevin Boon. N.Y.: SUNY
Maritime Press, 1999.
“W. D. Snodgrass, Walt Whitman and the
Shaping of the American Conscience.” Tuned and Under Tension: The Work
of W.D. Snodgrass. Ed. Philip Raisor. Newark: University of Delaware
Press, 1998.
“‘Awful but Cheerful’: The Life of Elizabeth Bishop.” American National Biography. London: Oxford University Press, 1998.
“Discovering the Voices of Biblical Women.” The Writing Room. Ed. Eve Shelnutt. Atlanta: Longstreet Press, 1989.
Articles
“What Writers Can Learn from Actors,” Master Writer’s Blog: Superstition Review, October, 2018.
“Slender Graces: A Review,” Poet Lore, 2005.
“The Paradox of the Isolated Body,” Branches Quarterly, January 2002.
“The One That Got Away: Elizabeth Bishop’s ‘Damned Fish.’” Journal X, Spring 1999.
“The Shape of Conversion.” Connecticut Review, Spring 1999.
Short Stories
“Explain,” Bellevue Literary Review, November 2016. —Nominated for Pushcart Prize
“Nine Months,” Superstition Review, November 2016.
“Betrayal,” The Bangalore Review, 2015.
“Breaking In,” Forge, January 2015.
Excerpt from the novel Holy Day, Philadelphia Stories, 2014.
“On the Strand,” Birmingham Arts Journal, 2014.“Fluency,” Prick of the Spindle, 2014.
“See Me,” Cobalt Press, 2014.
“Sympathy,” The Valley Review, 2014.
“Sister,” Fiction Attic Press, 2013.
“Produce Boy,” Gargoyle Magazine, 2013.
“The Wallpaper Man,” The Broadkill Review, July 2007.
“The Man Who Fell in Love with the Sea: A Fable.” Octavo, Summer 2006.
