• Awards
• Nominations
• Books
• Poems
• Short stories published in major markets
• Short stories published in semi-pro and small press markets
• Upcoming work

Awards

• “Home for Old Robots” won the BSFS Annual Poetry Contest 2024
• “Belter Cats” (Analog, July/August 2022) won the AnLab Readers’ Award for best poem
• Grand Master Award, Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association, 2022 (tied with Akua Lezli Hope)
• “Mythic Book Emporium” (DreamForge Anvil #2, April 2021) won the 2022 Utopia Award for Utopian Poem
• “What Trees Read” (Uppagus #48, October 2021) won the 2022 Dwarf Stars Award (tied with “Poem with Lines from My Son” by Jen Stewart Fueston)
• “Confessions of a Spaceport AI” (Uncanny Magazine #43, November/December 2021) won the 2022 Rhysling Award for best short poem
• “The Sign of the Dragon” (JABberwocky Literary Agency, 2020) won the 2021 Elgin Award
• “How to Go Twelfth” (Analog, March/April 2020) won the AnLab Readers’ Award for best poem
• “Venus, As It Might Have Been” (Analog, March/April 2018) won the AnLab Readers’ Award for best poem
• “Advice to a Six-Year-Old” (Star*Line #40.2) won the 2018 Rhysling Award for best short poem
• “Crowned: The Sign of the Dragon, Book 1” (Dark Renaissance Books, 2015) won the 2016 Elgin Award
• “Interregnum” (Star*Line #36.4) won the 2014 Rhysling Award for best long poem
• “Cause and Consequence” (Interzone #136) won the Best of Soft SF contest for 1998

Nominations/Second Place/Third Place

• “Like Trees at the Arboretum” (Eye to the Telescope #49, July 2023), nominated for the 2024 Best of the Net Anthology
• “Right to Shelter” (Radon Journal, Issue 7, May 2024), nominated for the 2024 Best of the Net Anthology
• “Downlift” (Radon Journal, Issue 5, September 2023), nominated for the 2024 Dwarf Stars Award
• “What Ghosts Didn’t Do” (SFPA 2023 Speculative Poetry Contest), nominated for the 2024 Dwarf Stars Award
• “How to Navigate Our Universe” (September 2023), nominated for the 2024 Elgin Award
• “What Xenologists Read” (Analog, November/December 2023), finalist for the AnLab Readers’ Award for best poem
• “The Treachery of Images” (Asimov’s Science Fiction, March/April 2023), finalist for the Asimov’s Readers’ Award for best poem
• “Sphinx” (Asimov’s Science Fiction, September/October 2023), finalist for the Asimov’s Readers’ Award for best poem
• “Dispatches from the Dragon’s Den” (Star*Line #46.2), finalist for the 2024 Rhysling Award
• “Sphinx” (Asimov’s Science Fiction, September/October 2023), finalist for the 2024 Rhysling Award
• “How to Help Hubble” (How to Navigate Our Universe), nominated for the 2024 Rhysling Award (long list)
• “Like Trees at the Arboretum” (Eye to the Telescope #49, July 2023), nominated for the Pushcart Prize
• “What Ghosts Didn’t Do”, second place in the 2023 SFPA Contest, Dwarf-length
• “What Fairy Godmothers Read” (Kaleidotrope, Summer 2022), nominated for the 2023 Dwarf Stars Award
• “Jingwei Tries to Fill Up the Sea” (Uncanny Magazine #45), finalist for the 2023 Rhysling Award
• “What Electrons Read” (Simultaneous Times #31), finalist for the 2023 Rhysling Award
• “What Wolves Read” (Uppagus #54), finalist for the 2023 Rhysling Award
• “Anodized Titanium” (Eye to the Telescope #44), nominated for the 2023 Rhysling Award (long list)
• “The Libraries of Mars” (Analog, March/April 2022), finalist for the AnLab Readers’ Award for best poem
• “Daedalus’s Daughter” (Star*Line #44.4, Fall 2021), nominated for the 2022 Rhysling Award
• “Sea Gods” (Eye to the Telescope #42, October 2021), nominated for the 2022 Rhysling Award
• “What Aliens Read” (Star*Line #44.1, Winter 2021), nominated for the Pushcart Prize
• “How to Tidy the Asteroids” (Rune Literary Journal 2020), nominated for the 2021 Dwarf Stars Award
• “Cavall” (Asimov’s Science Fiction, September/October 2020), nominated for the 2021 Rhysling Award
• “What Phoenixes Read” (Star*Line #43.3, Summer 2020), nominated for the 2021 Rhysling Award
• “Jumble” (Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, February 2020), nominated for the 2021 Rhysling Award
• “Ford” (The Sign of the Dragon, JABberwocky Literary Agency, April 2020), nominated for the 2021 Rhysling Award
• “The Cat’s Epilogue” (The Sign of the Dragon, JABberwocky Literary Agency, April 2020), nominated for the 2021 Rhysling Award
• “Two Weeks” (The Sign of the Dragon, JABberwocky Literary Agency, April 2020), nominated for the 2021 Rhysling Award
• “After Zhuangzi” (Eye to the Telescope #38, October 2020), nominated for the Pushcart Prize
• “How to Advertise Titan” (Star*Line #43.2, Spring 2020), nominated for the Pushcart Prize
• “Elemental Haiku” (Ten Speed Press, 2019), second place in the 2020 Elgin Awards
• “How to Time Travel (Analog, May/June 2019), nominated for the 2020 Dwarf Stars Award
• “How to Notice a Dark Nebula (Triangulation: Dark Skies, 2019), nominated for the 2020 Dwarf Stars Award
• “How to Dance With Dark Matter” (Uppagus #37, October 2019), nominated for the 2020 Rhysling Award
• “How to Colonize Ganymede” (NewMyths.com, September 2019), nominated for the 2020 Rhysling Award
• “Witch” (Polu Texni, October 2019), nominated for the 2020 Rhysling Award
• “To Skeptics” (Fantasy & Science Fiction, July/August 2019), nominated for the 2020 Rhysling Award
• “How to Betray Sagittarius A* (Strange Horizons, October 2018), nominated for the 2019 Dwarf Stars Award
• “Alien Interview Questions” (Dreams and Nightmares 109, May 2018), nominated for the 2019 Rhysling Award
• “Dragon Mountain” (Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #35), nominated for the 2019 Rhysling Award
• “Dear Creator” (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2018), nominated for the 2019 Rhysling Award
• “How to Be Invisible” (Star*Line #41.4, Fall 2018), nominated for the Pushcart Prize
• “Alternate Genders” (Mithila Review #9), third place in the 2018 Rhysling Awards (long poem category)
• “Lotus Moon” (Mythic Delirium #4.2), nominated for the 2018 Rhysling Award
• “Daunted” (Dreams & Nightmares #105), nominated for the 2018 Rhysling Award
• “The Secret Life of a Toaster” (Polu Texni), nominated for the 2018 Rhysling Award
• “Advice to a Six-Year-Old” (Star*Line #40.2, Spring 2017), nominated for the Pushcart Prize
• “Not Like This” (Apex Magazine, Issue 87, August 2016), third place in the 2017 Rhysling Awards (long poem category)
• “First Lesson” (Silver Blade #30, Spring 2016), nominated for the 2017 Rhysling Award
• “Returning” (The Open Mouse, 5/6/2016), nominated for the 2017 Rhysling Award
• “The Washerwoman’s Daughter” (Crowned, Dark Renaissance Books, 2015), nominated for the 2016 Rhysling Award
• “Training: Stances” (Crowned, Dark Renaissance Books, 2015), nominated for the 2016 Rhysling Award
• “Dragonslayer” (Crowned, Dark Renaissance Books, 2015), nominated for the 2016 Rhysling Award
• “The Virgin and the Unicorn” (Star*Line #37.1, Winter 2014), nominated for the 2015 Rhysling Award
• “The Matter of the Horses” (Ideomancer, Volume 13, Issue 4, December 2014), nominated for the 2015 Rhysling Award
• “Numbers” (Star*Line #37.2, Spring 2014), nominated for the 2015 Rhysling Award
• “Insignificant Others” (2001: A Science Fiction Poetry Anthology), nominated for the 2001 Rhysling Award.
• “Every Other Day of the Year” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 11/11/2000), nominated for the 2000 Rhysling Award.
• “Universal Grammar” (F&SF, April 1997), finalist for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award
• “Mail-A-Day” (Pirate Writings #9), third place in the Best of Soft SF contest for 1996
• “To Have And To Hold” (Dark Regions #10), second place in the Best of Soft SF contest for 1995

Books

• How to Navigate Our Universe, how-to astronomy poetry, ISBN 979-8-9885922-1-1, September 2023.
• The Sign of the Dragon, winner of the 2021 Elgin Award, ebook, the epic story of King Xau, chosen by a dragon to be king, told in over three hundred poems, ISBN 978-1625674906, April 2020.
• Elemental Haiku, containing 119 haiku for the elements of the periodic table, Ten Speed Press, ISBN 978-1984856630, October 2019.
• Crowned: The Sign of the Dragon, Book 1, epic fantasy in verse, Dark Renaiassance Books, June 2015, ISBN 978-1937128746.
• Ebb Tides and Other Tales, science fiction collection, Dark Regions Press, July 2002, ISBN 1-888993-31-6.
• Winter Shadows and Other Tales, fantasy collection, Dark Regions Press, November 2001, ISBN 1-888993-23-5.

Poems

• “So This Is The Prison,” BoomerLitMag, Volume VIII, No. 2 – 2024
• “What Dragons Didn’t Do,” Uppagus #65, November 2024
• “Lonesome Dove,” US 1 Worksheets, Volume 69, 2024
• “Elf Ring,” Dreams and Nightmares #128, September 2024
• “After the Dragon Died,” Dreams and Nightmares #128, September 2024
• “Risen Demon,” Eye to the Telescope #54, October 2024
• “To the Laws of Physics,” Star*Line #47.4, Fall 2024
• “What Villains Read,” Kaleidotrope, Autumn 2024
• “Aubade from the After Days,” Strange Horizons, 9/9/2024
• “A Poet, Neglected,” Uppagus #64, September 2024
• “The Empire of Cat,” DreamForge Anvil, Issue 17, September 2024
• “At the Galactic Lost and Found,” Trollbreath Magazine, Issue #1, Fall 2024
• “So This Is Mars,” Analog, September/October 2024
• “Eating with the Dead #1,” Asimov’s Science Fiction, September/October 2024
• “Wanted – Personal Demon,” Asimov’s Science Fiction, September/October 2024
• “What Dragons Read,” Uppagus #63, August 2024
• “The Languages of Birds,” Strange Horizons, 7/16/2024
• “The Archive of Birds,” Apparition Lit #27, Anachronism, July 2024
• “What Heroines Read,” The Future Fire, Issue 2024.70, July 2024
• “First Snow,” Star*Line #47.3, Summer 2024
• “What Cosmologists Read,” Star*Line #47.3, Summer 2024
• “Diplomatic Arts,” Utopia Science Fiction Magazine, June/July 2024
• “What They Didn’t Do,” Asimov’s Science Fiction, July/August 2024
• “Home for Old Robots,” The BSFAN (convention souvenir book for Balticon), May 2024
• “Coffin / Cradle,” Radon Journal, Issue 7, May 2024
• “Right to Shelter,” Radon Journal, Issue 7, May 2024
• “What Peter Mark Roget Read,” Uppagus #62, May 2024
• “Catachreses,” Rune, Spring 2024
• “Basil,”, yawp, April 2024
• “On Dragon Food,” Eye to the Telescope #52, April 2024
• “Silver Linings,” Star*Line #47.2, Spring 2024
• “What the Hero Didn’t Do,” Star*Line #47.2, Spring 2024
• “Escher’s Cat,” Uppagus #61, March 2024
• “How to Fall for Io,” SFPA Valentines Day Poetry Reading, February 2024 (N.B. this poem first appeared in “How to Navigate Our Universe”)
• “What Giants Read,” Strange Horizons, 29 January 2024
• “The Blackthorn,” Dreams and Nightmares #126, January 2024
• “Death Cheats at Cards,” Star*Line #47.1, Winter 2024
• “The Lies the Dragon Told,” Constellations, Volume 13, Fall 2023
• “What Cassandra Read,” NewMyths.com, Issue 65, Winter 2023
• “Orchid Dragon,” Fantasy & Science Fiction, November/December 2023
• “Phoenix Dragon,” Fantasy & Science Fiction, November/December 2023
• “In-Flight Etiquette,” US 1 Worksheets #68, November 2023
• “What Ghosts Didn’t Do,” SFPA Contest, 2023, second place, Dwarf-length; reprinted in Dwarf Stars 2024
• “What Xenologists Read,” Analog, November/December 2023
• “Synthetic Assistant,” Eye to the Telescope #50, October 2023
• “Climbing Into Books,” Uppagus #59, October 2023
• “Personal Demons,” Star*Line #46.4, Fall 2023
• “Downlift,” Radon Journal, Issue 5, September 2023; reprinted in Dwarf Stars 2024
• “Detritus,” Radon Journal, Issue 5, September 2023
• “Sphinx,” Asimov’s Science Fiction, September/October 2023; reprinted in The 2024 Rhysling Anthology
• “Alien Pointillism,” Utopia Science Fiction Magazine, August/September 2023
• “What Trolls Read,” Small Wonders, Issue 2, August 2023
• “What Androids Read,” Uppagus #58, August 2023
• “Like Trees at the Arboretum,” Eye to the Telescope #49, July 2023
• “So This Is Neptune,” Solarpunk Magazine #10, July/August 2023
• “Lesser Spells,” Star*Line #46.3, Summer 2023
• “Spring Comes Round Again,” Star*Line #46.3, Summer 2023
• “How to Pack for a Quest,” Fantasy & Science Fiction, July/August 2023
• “I, Universe,” Strange Horizons, 2023 Fund Drive Issue
• “Advice from a Rabbit,” Rune 2023, April 2023
• “The Qilin Visits the Zoo,” Penumbric, Volume VI, Issue 6, April 2023; reprinted in Best of Penumbric, vol vi
• “Dispatches from the Dragon’s Den,” Star*Line #46.2, Spring 2023; reprinted in The 2024 Rhysling Anthology
• “If Death Were a Cat,” Star*Line #46.2, Spring 2023
• “Without Winter, No Plum Blossom,” Small Wonders #0
• “The Treachery of Images,” Asimov’s Science Fiction, March/April 2023
• “Allegheny River,” Uppagus #55, February 2023
• “Argos,” Asimov’s Science Fiction, January/February 2023
• “When Arthur, Then a Boy, Came to Me,” Asimov’s Science Fiction, January/February 2023
• “Raised by Mushrooms,” Star*Line #46.1, Winter 2023; reprinted, Chinese translation, in Translations 2024 #1
• “Following B’sst,” Constellations, Volume 12, Fall 2022
• “Picasso’s ‘Chat Saisissant un Oiseau,'” Constellations, Volume 12, Fall 2022
• “What Martians Read,” DreamForge Anvil #10, December 2022
• “What Chimerae Read,” Fantasy Magazine #86, December 2022
• “What Electrons Read,” Simultaneous Times Newsletter #31, November 2022; reprinted in The 2023 Rhysling Anthology
• “What Photons Read,” Simultaneous Times Newsletter #31, November 2022
• “What Wolves Read,” Uppagus #54, November 2022; reprinted in The 2023 Rhysling Anthology
• “The Alien Ambassador,” Asimov’s Science Fiction, November/December 2022
• “Dragonslayer,” Eye to the Telescope #46, October 2022
• “I, Cassandra,” Star*Line #45.4, Fall 2022
• “Lesser Quests,” Star*Line #45.4, Fall 2022
• “Recruits,” Star*Line #45.4, Fall 2022
• “How to Herd Cats,” Uppagus #53, September 2022
• “Again,” Utopia Science Fiction Magazine, August/September 2022
• “When They Come for You,” Fantasy & Science Fiction, September/October 2022
• “Alien Astrology,” Star*Line #45.3, Summer 2022
• “The Long Big Quiet,” Star*Line #45.3, Summer 2022
• “A Knight Retires,” Star*Line #45.3, Summer 2022
• “The Secrets of Sparrows,” Uppagus #52, July 2022
• “What Fairy Godmothers Read,” Kaleidotrope, Summer 2022; reprinted in Dwarf Stars 2023
• “Belter Cats,” Analog, July/August 2022; winner of the AnLab Readers’ Award for best poem
• “Phalaenopsis Orchid,” Uppagus #51, May 2022
• “A Reimaginging,” Utopia Science Fiction, April/May 2022
• “Ming Dynasty Cats,” Rune 2022, April 2022; reprinted in Instincts #29, July 2022
• “After Inventing Time Travel,” Apparition Lit #18, April 2022
• “Anodized Titanium,” Eye to the Telescope #44, April 2022
• “Vintage Science Fiction,” Star*Line #45.2, Spring 2022
• “Jingwei Tries to Fill Up the Sea,” Uncanny Magazine #45, March/April 2022; reprinted in The 2023 Rhysling Anthology
• “How to Construct the Elements,” Asimov’s Science Fiction, March/April 2022
• “The Libraries of Mars,” Analog, March/April 2022
• “Murmuration,” Star*Line #45.1, Winter 2022
• “Directions to Utopia,” Constellations, Volume 11: Redirections, Fall 2021
• “The Dead,” Penumbric, Volume V, Issue 4, December 2021 (N.B. this poem first appeared in “The Sign of the Dragon”); reprinted in Best of Penumbric, vol v
• “Cat,” Uppagus #49, December 2021
• “How to Hear the Stars,” Fantasy & Science Fiction, November/December 2021
• “How to Count Astronomically,” Fantasy & Science Fiction, November/December 2021
• “Confessions of a Spaceport AI,” Uncanny Magazine #43, November/December 2021; winner of the 2022 Rhysling Award for best short poem; reprinted in The 2022 Rhysling Anthology
• “Sea Gods,” Eye to the Telescope #42, October 2021; reprinted in The 2022 Rhysling Anthology
• “Dragon King of the Southern Sea,” Eye to the Telescope #42, October 2021
• “What Bees Read,” Star*Line #44.4, Fall 2021
• “Daedalus’s Daughter,” Star*Line #44.4, Fall 2021; reprinted in The 2022 Rhysling Anthology
• “What Trees Read,” Uppagus #48, October 2021; reprinted in Dwarf Stars 2022; reprinted, Chinese translation, in Translations 2023 #1
• “Forms of Address 2050,” Penumbric, Volume V, Issue 3, October 2021
• “The Line,” I-70 Review, Summer/Fall 2021
• “Missing Measures,” I-70 Review, Summer/Fall 2021
• “Western Retrospective,” American Diversity Report, August 2021
• “How to Overlook Differences,” Uppagus #47, August 2021
• “Train Algebra,” Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, Volume 11, Issue 2, July 2021
• “What Cacti Read,” Strange Horizons, July 2021
• “Menagerie,” Silver Blade, Issue 50, Summer 2021
• “Not for Sale, Used Asteroid, One Owner,” The Future Fire, Issue 2021.58, July 2021
• “How to Mourn Kepler’s Supernova,” Penumbric, Volume V, Issue 1, June 2021
• “Haiku in the Time of COVID-19,” Uppagus #46, June 2021
• “How to Enlist in Andromeda,” Dreams and Nightmares #118, May 2021
• “Thirty-Ninth War Between Innis and Meqing: Commencement,” Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #48, May 2021 (N.B. this poem first appeared in “The Sign of the Dragon”)
• “How to Appoint the North Star,” Frozen Wavelets #6, Winter/Spring 2021
• “How to Weigh Yourself,” Rune 2021, April 2021
• “Alien Armada,” The Future Fire, Issue 2021.57, April 2021
• “Mythic Book Emporium,” DreamForge Anvil #2, April 2021
• “The Cat’s Epilogue,” The 2021 Rhysling Anthology (N.B. this poem first appeared in “The Sign of the Dragon”)
• “Two Weeks,” The 2021 Rhysling Anthology (N.B. this poem first appeared in “The Sign of the Dragon”)
• “A Motley of Unicorns,” Star*Line #44.2, Spring 2021
• “Teatime with a Shapeshifter,” Star*Line #44.2, Spring 2021
• “Directions to the Apocalypse,” Star*Line #44.2, Spring 2021
• “How to Autopsy an Enemy Alien,” Star*Line #44.2, Spring 2021
• “The Middle Kingdom,” Polu Texni, 1/25/2021
• “Directions to the Underworld,” Eye to the Telescope #39, January 2021
• “Voyage of Failed Heroes,” Star*Line #44.1, Winter 2021
• “What Aliens Read,” Star*Line #44.1, Winter 2021
• “The Red Planet,” Star*Line #44.1, Winter 2021
• “Advent,” Star*Line #44.1, Winter 2021
• “How to Groom Pet Aliens,” Frozen Wavelets #5, Fall 2020
• “How to Colonize Venus,” Andromeda Spaceways #81, December 2020
• “The Reaper’s Cat,” Mirror Dance, Autumn 2020
• “Brighton,” Constellations, Volume 10: Synthesis, Fall 2020
• “How to Forfeit the Future,” NewMyths.com, Issue 53, December 2020
• “Heroine,” Uppagus #43, December 2020
• “Why We Resist,” Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, Volume 31, Number 4, Winter 2020
• “Mended,” Fantasy & Science Fiction, November/December 2020
• “After Zhuangzi,” Eye to the Telescope #38, October 2020
• “How to Commemorate the Big Bang,” Uppagus #42, October 2020
• “The Seven Deadly Sins: A Cat’s Perspective,” Typehouse Literary Magazine, Volume 7, No. 2, Issue 20
• “Cavall,” Asimov’s Science Fiction, September/October 2020; reprinted in The 2021 Rhysling Anthology
• “Dicing with the Devil,” Polu Texni, 9/14/2020
• “How to Stop Being a Star,” Uppagus #41, August 2020
• “Dear Arithmetic,” Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, Volume 10, Issue 2, July 2020
• “Lantern Festival,” Insignia 2020 (N.B. this poem first appeared in “The Sign of the Dragon”)
• “The Eighth Son of Ganbataar,” Insignia 2020 (N.B. this poem first appeared in “The Sign of the Dragon”)
• “Shapeshifter,” Eye to the Telescope #37, July 2020
• “Champion,” Star*Line #43.3, Summer 2020
• “Museums of Earth,” Star*Line #43.3, Summer 2020
• “What Phoenixes Read,” Star*Line #43.3, Summer 2020; reprinted in The 2021 Rhysling Anthology
• “A Quartet of Alphabetic Babbles,” Fantasy & Science Fiction, July/August 2020
• “How to Observe the Horsehead Nebula,” Uppagus #40, June 2020
• “Midnight,” Instincts #7, June 2020 (N.B. this poem first appeared in “Crowned”)
• “How to Tidy the Asteroids,” Rune Literary Journal 2020; reprinted in Dwarf Stars 2021
• “Harold and Kate,” Rune Literary Journal 2020
• “Ford,” Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #44, May 2020 (N.B. this poem first appeared in “The Sign of the Dragon”); reprinted in The 2021 Rhysling Anthology
• “First Contact,” Fantasy & Science Fiction, May/June 2020
• “How to Advertise Titan,” Star*Line #43.2, Spring 2020
• “How to Tease Jupiter,” Uppagus #39, April 2020
• “How to Question Asteroid 16 Psyche,” Mithila Review #13, March 2020
• “Patroclus,” Mithila Review #13, March 2020
• “Without Worship,” Space & Time #136, Spring 2020
• “How to Weave the Stars,” NewMyths.com, Issue 50, March 2020; reprinted in Insignia 2020
• “How to Destroy a Dragon,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, March 2020
• “How to Imagine Barnard’s Star b,” Star*Line #43.1, Winter 2020
• “Humpty Dumpty,” Star*Line #43.1, Winter 2020
• “How to Go Twelfth,” Analog, March/April 2020; winner of the AnLab Readers’ Award for best poem; reprinted in The Heartbeat of the Universe, April 2024
• “How to Hide the Milky Way,” Uppagus #38, February 2020
• “Jumble,” Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #43, February 2020; reprinted in The 2021 Rhysling Anthology
• “How to Decorate the Moon,” Eye to the Telescope #35, January 2020; reprinted in Delectus
• “How to Surprise Saturn,” Spillway 27, 2019
• “How to Curve Spacetime,” Asimov’s Science Fiction, November/December 2019
• “Not For Sale,” Asimov’s Science Fiction, November/December 2019
• “Tall Tale,” Star*Line #42.4, Fall 2019
• “Witch,” Polu Texni, 10/21/2019; reprinted in The 2020 Rhysling Anthology
• “How to Trick a Trickster,” Eye to the Telescope #34, October 2019; reprinted in Delectus
• “How to Dance With Dark Matter,” Uppagus #37, October 2019; reprinted in The 2020 Rhysling Anthology
• “How to Lie About SN 2213-1745,” Mithila Review #11
• “How to Detect Solar Neutrinos,” Silver Blade, Issue 43, September 2019
• “Apology for Your Extinction,” Dreams & Nightmares #113, September 2019
• “How to Colonize Ganymede,” NewMyths.com, Issue 48, September 2019; reprinted in The 2020 Rhysling Anthology
• “Last Human in the Olympics,” Fantasy & Science Fiction, September/October 2019
• “How to Be a Star,” Uppagus #36, August 2019
• “How to Emulate Black Holes,” Star*Line #42.3, Summer 2019
• “Galahad,” Star*Line #42.3, Summer 2019
• “Cyborg Cats,” Star*Line #42.3, Summer 2019
• “How to Mislay Constellations,” Triangulation: Dark Skies, 2019
• “How to Notice a Dark Nebula,” Triangulation: Dark Skies, 2019; reprinted in Dwarf Stars 2020
• “How to Glimpse the Icarus Star,” Triangulation: Dark Skies, 2019
• “How to Go Eighth,” Triangulation: Dark Skies, 2019
• “How to Go Seventeenth,” Triangulation: Dark Skies, 2019
• “How to Fathom a Light-Year,” Amazing Stories, Volume 76, Issue 4, Spring 2019
• “To Skeptics,” Fantasy & Science Fiction, July/August 2019; reprinted in The 2020 Rhysling Anthology
• “How to Honor Sirius,” Eternal Haunted Summer, Summer Solstice 2019; reprinted in The Best of Eternal Haunted Summer
• “Tsung’s Battle,” Insignia: Asian Flash Fiction & Poetry, Volume 7, June 2019 (N.B. this poem first appeared in “Crowned”)
• “How to Thank Earth,” Uppagus #35, June 2019
• “If the Fairy Godmother Comes,” Do Not Go Quietly, 2019
• “How to Call Proxima Centauri,” Star*Line #42.2, Spring 2019
• “On Keeping Unicorns,” Star*Line #42.2, Spring 2019
• “Royal Prospects,” Star*Line #42.2, Spring 2019
• “How to Time Travel,” Analog, May/June 2019; reprinted in Dwarf Stars 2020
• “Guinevere,” Fantasy & Science Fiction, May/June 2019
• “The Commandant of Mars,” Eye to the Telescope #32, April 2019
• “Snapdragons,” Uppagus #34, April 2019
• “Cherry Blossom 2050,” NewMyths.com, Issue 46, March 2019; reprinted in Twilight Worlds: The Best of NewMyths Anthology Volume II, December 2020
• “In the Caverns of the Moon,” Fantasy & Science Fiction, March/April 2019
• “Coming of Age 2150,”, DreamForge, Issue 1, Founders Issue, 2/2019
• “Eighth Day,” Uppagus #33, February 2019
• “New Year’s Resolutions,” Star*Line #42.1, Winter 2019
• “Unicorn Care,” Star*Line #42.1, Winter 2019
• “Snubbed,” Star*Line #42.1, Winter 2019
• “How to Seduce Apophis,” Abyss & Apex, Issue 69, 1st Quarter 2019
• “The Cats of Mars,” NewMyths.com, Issue 45, December 2018
• “How to Grade Comets,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 12/7/2018
• “Per Aspera Ad Astra,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 12/6/2018
• “The Cake,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 12/5/2018
• “All the Lovely Normal Stuff,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 12/4/2018
• “Félicette, October 18, 1963,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 12/3/2018
• “modern poetry,” Ship of Fools #78, Fall 2018
• “Minecraft,” Ship of Fools #78, Fall 2018
• “Between Battles,” Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #38
• “Advice for Time Travelers,” Strange Horizons, 10/29/2018
• “How to Betray Sagittarius A*,” Strange Horizons, 10/29/2018; reprinted in Dwarf Stars 2019
• “How to be Invisible,” Star*Line #41.4, Fall 2018
• “What They Took,” Star*Line #41.4, Fall 2018
• “Fealty,” Uppagus #31, October 2018
• “Advice to a Villain,” Liminality #17, Autumn 2018
• “New Color,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 9/20/2018
• “Packing for the Afterlife,” Asimov’s Science Fiction, September/October 2018; reprinted in The Heartbeat of the Universe, April 2024
• “Trojan Cats,” Uppagus #30, August 2018
• “How to Paint Mercury,” Apex Magazine, Issue 111, August 2018
• “How to Fly By Neptune,” Apex Magazine, Issue 111, August 2018
• “How to Speak to Pluto,” Apex Magazine, Issue 111, August 2018
• “Relics of the Round Table,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 7/20/2018
• “Mirror Cats,” Star*Line #41.3, Summer 2018
• “Neolithic Cats of Stonehenge,” Star*Line #41.3, Summer 2018
• “How to Speak to Ghosts,” Star*Line #41.3, Summer 2018
• “How to Repair Starships,” Star*Line #41.3, Summer 2018
• “Junk DNA,” Star*Line #41.3, Summer 2018
• “Rosalind,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 7/10/2018
• “Advice from an Elephant,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 7/5/2018
• “Red Rising,” Fantasy & Science Fiction, July/August 2018
• “Rules for Vacuuming,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 6/29/2018
• “Gone,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 6/12/2018
• “Renunciation,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 6/1/2018
• “Alien Interview Questions,” Dreams & Nightmares #109, May 2018; reprinted in The 2019 Rhysling Anthology
• “Grasslands,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 5/15/2018
• “Meisho’s Dodos,” Grievous Angel, 4/30/2018; reprinted in Insignia 2020
• “Victoria,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 4/27/2018
• “On Reading ‘The Journey to the West,'” Oakland Review, Volume 43, Spring 2018
• “Yard Work,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 4/17/2018
• “Time Cats,” Eye to the Telescope #28, April 2018
• “The Holy Firmament of Venus,” Star*Line #41.2, Spring 2018
• “Irene,” Uppagus #28, April 2018; reprinted in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 2/3/2019
• “Harold’s Samaritan,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 3/22/2018
• “Reasons for Reading,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 3/6/2018
• “Venus, As It Might Have Been,” Analog, March/April 2018; winner of the AnLab Readers’ Award for best poem
• “Diaspora,” Fantasy & Science Fiction, March/April 2018
• “Dragon Mountain,” Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #35; reprinted in The 2019 Rhysling Anthology
• “On Reading Le Guin,” Uppagus #27, February 2018; reprinted in Climbing Lightly Through Forests: A Poetry Anthology Honoring Ursula K. Le Guin, 2/2021
• “Again,” Dreams & Nightmares #108, January 2018
• “Camelot Cats,” Eye to the Telescope #27, January 2018
• “Treebound,” Apex Magazine, Issue 104, January 2018
• “Monster: Puppeteer,” Apex Magazine, Issue 104, January 2018
• “Dear Creator,” Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2018; reprinted in The 2019 Rhysling Anthology
• “Dark Harvest,” Mirror Dance, Winter 2017
• “Stormalong Bay,” Ship of Fools #77, 2017
• “Eligible,” Ship of Fools #77, 2017
• “Kate,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 12/7/2017
• “Cookies,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 11/16/2017
• “The Day’s Measure,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 11/7/2017
• “Exercise 2050,” Star*Line #40.4, Fall 2017
• “What He Told Me,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 10/19/2017
• “The Ark’s Daughters,” Eye to the Telescope #26, October 2017
• “Favorite Place,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 10/10/2017
• “The Secret Life of a Toaster,” Polu Texni, 10/2/2017; reprinted in The 2018 Rhysling Anthology
• “Lotus Moon,” Mythic Delirium #4.2, October-December 2017; reprinted in The 2018 Rhysling Anthology; reprinted in Insignia 2020
• “Air Show Maneuvers,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 9/28/2017
• “Alternate Genders,” Mithila Review #9; reprinted in The 2018 Rhysling Anthology
• “Chronology of Items Found on the Moon,” Mithila Review #9
• “Boatman,” Mithila Review #9
• “What War Is Like,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 9/19/2017
• “Yellowstone,” Litbreak Magazine, 9/5/2017
• “Unsaid,” Uppagus #25, September 2017
• “Mortal,” Spillway 25, Summer 2017
• “Elemental,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 8/10/2017
• “Elemental Haiku,” Science, 4 August 2017, Volume 357, Issue 6350; three of the haiku reprinted in the Wall Street Journal, 5 August 2017
• “Bespeaking: Riddles,” Star*Line #40.3, Summer 2017
• “Between,” Uppagus #24, July 2017
• “Tirron,” Mirror Dance, Summer 2017
• “On Reading O’Brian,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 6/23/2017
• “The End of the Line,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 6/9/2017
• “Shade,” Silver Blade #34, Spring 2017
• “The Dark Equations,” Star*Line #40.2, Spring 2017
• “Advice to a Six-Year-Old,” Star*Line #40.2, Spring 2017; winner of the 2018 Rhysling Award for best short poem; reprinted in The 2018 Rhysling Anthology; reprinted in The Alchemy of Stars II, November 2019
• “Lost,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 5/10/2017
• “When King Xau Was Gone,” Uppagus #23, May 2017
• “The Path to Peace,” Fantasy & Science Fiction, May/June 2017
• “Portraits,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 4/25/2017
• “The Sign of the King,” Strange Horizons, 4/24/2017
• “Angshan,” Rune Literary Journal 2017
• “Second Sight,” Rune Literary Journal 2017
• “The Headlong Year,” Eye to the Telescope #24, April 2017
• “Afternoon Tea,” Concho River Review, Volume 31, Number 1, Spring 2017
• “Yayoi Kusama,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 4/12/2017
• “Five Arrows,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 3/28/2017
• “The Cat Vet,” Uppagus #22, March 2017
• “Traveling,” Ship of Fools #76
• “Sheep,” Ship of Fools #76
• “Stay,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 2/15/2017
• “Advice to a Houseplant,” Nanotext (Medusa’s Laugh), February 2017
• “Seventeenth Lesson,” Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #31
• “Daunted,” Dreams & Nightmares #105, January 2017; reprinted in The 2018 Rhysling Anthology
• “Respect,” Polu Texni, 1/23/2017; reprinted in Insignia: Asian Flash Fiction and Poetry, Volume 7
• “The Imperial War: Onset,” Grievous Angel, 1/23/2017
• “Undecorating,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 1/19/2017
• “Preschool 2050,” Eye to the Telescope #23, January 2017
• “Wilderness 2050,” Star*Line #40.1, Winter 2017
• “Suburbia 2050,” Star*Line #40.1, Winter 2017
• “Invitation,” Star*Line #40.1, Winter 2017
• “Magicians,” Star*Line #40.1, Winter 2017
• “Kingship,” Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2017
• “Judgment,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 12/13/2016
• “Recruits,” Mirror Dance, Winter 2016
• “Princess Tea Party,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 11/28/2016
• “Legacy,” After Happy Hour Review, Issue 6, Fall 2016
• “Pestilence,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 11/11/2016
• “For My Life,” The Violet Hour #1.2, October 2016
• “Arrow,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 10/21/2016
• “At the Sign of the Dragon,” Uppagus #20, October 2016
• “Messengers,” Grievous Angel, 10/2/2016
• “Keng,” Ligature Works, Issue 1
• “Eighty,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 9/22/2016
• “Solstice,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 9/15/2016
• “Rachel,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 8/30/2016
• “Li,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 8/25/2016
• “Captain,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 8/8/2016
• “Not Like This,” Apex Magazine, Issue 87, August 2016; reprinted in The 2017 Rhysling Anthology
• “Bowl,” Ship of Fools #75, Spring 2016
• “On Vacation,” Ship of Fools #75, Spring 2016
• “Wolf Moon,” Dreams & Nightmares #103 (N.B. this poem first appeared in “Crowned”)
• “Widow,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 7/26/2016
• “School Library,” Main Street Rag, Volume 21, Number 3, Summer 2016
• “Stepmother,” Eye to the Telescope #21, July 2016
• “By Heart,” Rhyme On 2016
• “Homecoming,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 6/10/2016
• “Polar Bears,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 6/7/2016
• “Further Extracts from the Recollections of Artoch, Senior Advisor to King Xau,” Mirror Dance, Summer 2016
• “First Lesson,” Silver Blade #30, Spring 2016; reprinted in The 2017 Rhysling Anthology
• “Another Week,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 5/25/2016
• “Blaze,” Concho River Review, Volume 30, Number 1, Spring 2016
• “Training: Stances,” The 2016 Rhysling Anthology (N.B. this poem first appeared in “Crowned”); reprinted in Insignia: Asian Flash Fiction and Poetry, Volume 7
• “Hero,” Star*Line #39.2, Spring 2016; reprinted in poetrynook.com (winner of their 118th weekly contest); reprinted in The Poetry Nook Anthology, 2019
• “The Hobbit,” Star*Line #39.2, Spring 2016
• “Conversations with Household Items,” Star*Line #39.2, Spring 2016
• “Returning,” The Open Mouse, 5/6/2016; reprinted in The Were-Traveler #19; reprinted in The 2017 Rhysling Anthology
• “Inheritance,” Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #28
• “Fault,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 4/26/2016
• “Roasted Chicken,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 4/20/2016
• “Dragon,” Dreams & Nightmares #102, January 2016
• “Micha,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 4/7/2016
• “Why the King Wept,” Uppagus #17, April 2016; reprinted in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 9, 2016
• “House Hunt,” Pittsburgh Poetry Review #2, March 2016
• “Letters,” Ship of Fools #74, 2016
• “National Museum of Ireland,” Main Street Rag, Volume 21, Number 1, Winter 2016
• “In Dublin,” Uppagus #16, February 2016
• “In Malaya,” Uppagus #16, February 2016
• “Readers Auxiliary Meeting #17,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 1/29/2016
• “Searching for Mr. Lemur,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 1/28/2016
• “Midsummer’s Day,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 1/27/2016
• “O Cat!,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 1/26/2016
• “Grandmothers,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 1/25/2016
• “Holding You,” Louisiana Literature, Volume 33, Number 1; reprinted in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 24, 2018; reprinted in The Poetry Nook Anthology, 2019
• “Cans,” Uppagus #15, December 2015
• “Dread,” Mirror Dance, Winter 2015
• “The Wild Horses Came Hastening,” Silver Blade #28, Fall 2015; reprinted in Insignia 2020
• “A Tale at Bedtime,” Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #26 (N.B. this poem first appeared in “Crowned” under the title “Bedtime”); reprinted in Instincts #9, August 2020
• “A Gift,” Dreams & Nightmares #101, July 2015; reprinted in The Poetry Nook Anthology, 2019
• “At the Word Party,” Atlanta Review, Volume XXII, No. 1, Fall / Winter 2015
• “Vengeance,” Star*Line #38.4, Fall 2015; mp3 recording appeared as part of 2016 SFPA Halloween Poetry Reading; reprinted in The Were-Traveler #19; reprinted in The Poetry Nook Anthology, 2019
• “The Washerwoman’s Daughter,” Star*Line #38.4, Fall 2015 (N.B. this poem first appeared in “Crowned”); reprinted in The 2016 Rhysling Anthology
• “What the Table Wants,” Red Rock Review, Fall 2015, Issue Thirty-Six
• “Necromancer,” The HWA Poetry Showcase, Volume II; reprinted in The Were-Traveler #19; reprinted in poetrynook.com (winner of their 147th weekly contest); reprinted in The Poetry Nook Anthology, 2019
• “Kitchen,” The New Yinzer, Summer/Fall 2015
• “Ask Me Now,” The New Yinzer, Summer/Fall 2015
• “Cup in Hand,” Spillway 23
• “Uncle Pat,” Iodine Poetry Journal, Fall/Winter 2015/2016
• “Training: Endurance,” Apex Magazine, Issue 75, August 2015
• “Dragonslayer,” Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #25 (N.B. this poem first appeared in “Crowned”); reprinted in The 2016 Rhysling Anthology; reprinted in The Best of Heroic Fantasy Quarterly IV
• “Old Astronauts,” Star*Line #38.3, Summer 2015
• “Opus,” Star*Line #38.3, Summer 2015
• “What Atun Learned,” Star*Line #38.3, Summer 2015
• “Darkness,” Star*Line #38.3, Summer 2015
• “Titles,” Ship of Fools #73, Summer 2015
• “Perfect,” Uppagus #12, June 2015
• “Equal Rights,” Rune Literary Journal 2015
• “On Reading Fantasy,” Star*Line #38.2, Spring 2015
• “Cure,” Star*Line #38.2, Spring 2015; reprinted in The Poetry Nook Anthology, 2019
• “After,” Star*Line #38.2, Spring 2015
• “Words,” RHINO 2015
• “Tiny Tower,” Main Street Rag, Volume 20, Number 2, Spring 2015
• “Television,” Concho River Review, Volume 29, Number 1, Spring 2015
• “Pigeon Six,” Uppagus #11, April 2015
• “Reading Companions,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, April 2015
• “Companionship,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, March 2015
• “Sizing Up,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, March 2015
• “Army,” Red Rock Review, Spring 2015, Issue Thirty-Five
• “Daybreak,” Tales of the Talisman, Volume X, Issue 3, Winter 2014/2015
• “Demon Fire,” Tales of the Talisman, Volume X, Issue 3, Winter 2014/2015; reprinted in The Were-Traveler #19
• “Night,” Ship of Fools #72, Winter 2015; reprinted in poetrynook.com (winner of their 92nd weekly poetry contest); reprinted in The Poetry Nook Anthology, 2019
• “On Reading Materials,” Cold Mountain Review, Volume 43, Number 1, Fall 2014
• “Training: Horse,” Mirror Dance, Spring 2015
• “Builder,” Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, Spring 2015, Volume 26, Number 1
• “Stables,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, February 2015
• “Hair,” Free State Review, Issue #5, Winter/Spring 2015
• “Papa,” Uppagus #10, February 2015; reprinted in Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, March 2016; reprinted in The Poetry Nook Anthology, 2019
• “The Ride,” Star*Line #38.1, Winter 2015
• “Demon Eclipse – Children’s Chant,” Star*Line #38.1, Winter 2015
• “Reasons Not to Bother a Dragon,” Star*Line #38.1, Winter 2015
• “Moon Swan,” Star*Line #38.1, Winter 2015; reprinted in Undead: A Poetry Anthology of Ghosts, Ghouls, and More
• “The Matter of the Horses,” Ideomancer, Volume 13, Issue 4, December 2014; reprinted in The 2015 Rhysling Anthology; reprinted in Insignia: Asian Flash Fiction and Poetry, Volume 7
• “Succession,” Red Rock Review, Fall 2014, Issue Thirty-Four; reprinted in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 11, 2015; reprinted in Verse Envisioned, January 2016
• “Houseguest,” Main Street Rag, Volume 19, Number 4, Fall 2014
• “On Reading Packaging,” Main Street Rag, Volume 19, Number 4, Fall 2014
• “The Hundred Dragons of Sumbral,” Star*Line #37.4, Fall 2014
• “Miss Date,” Ship of Fools #71, Fall 2014
• “What Matters,” Louisiana Literature, Volume 31, Number 2
• “Roasted Herbed Leg of Lamb,” Louisiana Literature, Volume 31, Number 2
• “Demon Stain,” Dreams & Nightmares #99, September 2014
• “What Xau Remembered,” Uppagus #8, October 2014
• “Breaking,” Westview, Volume 30, Issue 2, Summer 2014
• “Not Enough,” Westview, Volume 30, Issue 2, Summer 2014
• “She and Me,” Westview, Volume 30, Issue 2, Summer 2014
• “The Horse Lord,” Ideomancer, Volume 13, Issue 3, September 2014; reprinted in poetrynook.com (winner of their 84th weekly poetry contest); reprinted in Insignia: Asian Flash Fiction and Poetry, Volume 7; reprinted in The Poetry Nook Anthology, 2019
• “Seventy Miles,” Uppagus #7, August 2014; reprinted in The Poetry Nook Anthology, 2019
• “Yours,” Green Hills Literary Lantern, Volume 25, 2014
• “Peripatetic,” Ship of Fools, Spring 2014, No. 70; reprinted in The Poetry Nook Anthology, 2019
• “Phyllis,” Ship of Fools, Spring 2014, No. 70
• “Brighid,” Apex Magazine, Issue 61, June 2014; reprinted in poetrynook.com (winner of their 48th weekly poetry contest); reprinted in Poetry Nook: Popular Contest Winners (anthology); reprinted in The Were-Traveler #19
• “Africa,” Concho River Review, Volume XXVIII, Number 1, Spring 2014
• “Janet,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 17, 2014
• “Cristina,” Evansville Review, Volume XXIV, 2014
• “Pan-Roasted Lobster with Bay Leaf,” Evansville Review, Volume XXIV, 2014
• “Numbers,” Star*Line #37.2, Spring 2014; reprinted in The 2015 Rhysling Anthology
• “Giants,” Atlanta Review, Volume XX, No. 2, Spring / Summer 2014; reprinted in Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, April 2016
• “Bookshelves,” Rune Literary Journal 2014
• “Tutor,” Rune (online edition)
• “Odd Birds,” Red Rock Review, Spring 2014, Issue Thirty-Three
• “LAST FOUR DAYS!” Uppagus #5
• “The Bastard Prince,” Dreams & Nightmares #97, January 2014; reprinted in The Poetry Nook Anthology, 2019
• “Rat,” Spillway 21
• “The Virgin and the Unicorn,” Star*Line #37.1, Winter 2014; reprinted in The 2015 Rhysling Anthology
• “Herb’s Marathon,” Coal City Review 32, 2013
• “Interregnum,” Star*Line #36.4, Autumn 2013; winner of the 2014 Rhysling Award for best long poem; reprinted in The 2014 Rhysling Anthology; reprinted in Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, March 2016; reprinted in The Alchemy of Stars II, November 2019
• “The Hardest Part,” Iodine Poetry Journal, Fall/Winter 2013/2014
• “Lego People,” Evansville Review, Volume XXIII, 2013
• “Coffee Shop for the Solitary,” 5 AM, Issue #37
• “Household Appliances: Junior,” Pinyon, Number 22, Spring 2013
• “Alert,” Pinyon, Number 22, Spring 2013
• “Problems (again),” Green Hills Literary Lantern, Volume 24, 2013
• “Amber,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 1, 2013
• “Star Wars: The Clone Wars,” Ship of Fools, Spring 2013, No. 68
• “Anna,” Chariton Review, Spring 2013, Vol. 36, No. 1; reprinted in The Poetry Nook Anthology, 2019
• “An Appeal,” Bryant Literary Review, Volume 14, 2013
• “Red Rock Canyon,” Red Rock Review, Spring 2013, Issue Thirty-One
• “Inside Out,” Red Rock Review, Spring 2013, Issue Thirty-One
• “Ten Words,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 8, 2012
• “On Reading Children’s Books,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 18, 2012
• “Autumn Fire,” Main Street Rag, Volume 17, Number 3, Summer 2012; reprinted in Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, February 2015
• “Half-Caste,” Main Street Rag, Volume 17, Number 3, Summer 2012
• “Open Houses,” Concho River Review, Volume XXVI, Number 1, Spring 2012
• “Before,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 20, 2011; reprinted in Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, April 2015
• “On the Shelf,” Main Street Rag, Volume 16, Number 3, Summer 2011
• “Aloud,” Main Street Rag, Volume 16, Number 3, Summer 2011
• “Numbers,” Concho River Review, Volume XXV, Number 1, Spring 2011
• “Monongahela River” 5 AM, issue #32
• “No One Could Love It,” The Fourth River, Issue 7, Autumn 2010
• “Details,” Atlanta Review, Volume XVII, No. 1, Fall/Winter 2010
• “A Fabric Album,” Iodine Poetry Journal, Volume XI, Number 2, Fall/Winter 2010/2011
• “Inside the Suits,” Main Street Rag, Volume 15, Number 3, Summer 2010; reprinted in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 18, 2010, and also reprinted in Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, April 2015; reprinted in The Poetry Nook Anthology, 2019
• “It’s a Small World,” Main Street Rag, Volume 15, Number 3, Summer 2010
• “Christmas News,” Ship of Fools #64, Winter 2010
• “All the Weird Men” and “Becoming Human,” both in 5 AM, issue #30
• “Love Songs of Elephants,” Ship of Fools #63, Winter 2009
• “Christmas Cards,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 5 December 2009
• “Master of Chocolate,” Atlanta Review, Volume XVI, No. 1, Fall/Winter 2009; reprinted in poetrynook.com (winner of their 143rd weekly contest); reprinted in The Poetry Nook Anthology, 2019
• “Fossil Light,” Iodine Poetry Journal, Volume X, Number 2, Fall/Winter 2009/2010
• “Laryngitis,” Main Street Rag, Volume 14, Number 2, Spring 2009; reprinted in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 4 July 2009
• “Conscripts,” Main Street Rag, Volume 14, Number 2, Spring 2009
• “Property Values,” Mad Poets Review, Volume 22
• “The Third Man,” Paper Street, October 2008
• “Mall-Fever,” Atlanta Review, Volume XIV, Number 2, Spring/Summer 2008; reprinted in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 27 December 2008; reprinted in Longman Elect (2nd Ed) Poems (Self-study) JS1-3
• “Halfway House,” Iodine Poetry Journal, Volume IX, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2008
• “Prayer,” The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Winter 2008
• “Mute,” Ship of Fools #62, Winter 2007/2008
• “Household Appliances: Iron,” Ship of Fools #62, Winter 2007/2008
• “Green Things,” Mad Poets Review, Volume 21
• “Cleaning Woman,” Main Street Rag, Volume 13, Number 1, Winter 2007/2008
• “To Mary,” Concho River Review, Volume XXI, Number 1, Spring 2007
• “Last Words,” Rosebud #38, Spring 2007
• “Bequests from a Bachelor,” Iodine Poetry Journal, Volume VIII, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2007
• “Consequences of the Speed of Gravitation,” Cider Press Review, Volume 8
• “Borrowed Minute,” Main Street Rag, Volume 11, Number 4, Winter 2006/2007
• “Call,” Main Street Rag, Volume 11, Number 4, Winter 2006/2007
• “Homewood Cemetery,” Ship of Fools, Number 59, Spring 2006
• “Household Appliances: In the Basement,” Ship of Fools, Number 58, Winter 2006
• “Silk Road,” America, December 5, 2005
• “Twenty-First Century Woman,” Concho River Review, Volume XIX, Number 2, Fall 2005
• “Fundamentals,” The 2005 Chaffin Journal
• “Future Poetry,” On Spec, Fall 2005
• “Screwups,” Main Street Rag, Volume 10, Number 3, Fall 2005
• “Relativity,” Iodine Poetry Journal, Volume VI, Number 2, Fall/Winter 2005/2006
• “These Two Things,” White Pelican Review, Vol. 6 No. 2, Fall 2005
• “Remnants,” Main Street Rag, Volume 10, Number 2, Summer 2005
• “Island Voices,” Ship of Fools, Number 56, Spring 2005
• “Office Rainbow,” Ship of Fools, Number 56, Spring 2005
• “Humidity,” Ship of Fools, Number 56, Spring 2005
• “I Will Not,” Ship of Fools, Number 55, Winter 2005
• “Naturalization Oath Ceremony, March 21, 2003,” St. Anthony Messenger, Volume 112, Number 10, March 2005
• “Divorce in Faery,” Star*Line #28.1, January/February 2005
• “Imperial History,” Axe Factory Review #18, Fall 2004; reprinted in poetrynook.com (winner of their 148th weekly contest); reprinted in The Poetry Nook Anthology, 2019
• “The Last Time,” Axe Factory Review #18, Fall 2004
• “To a Raspberry Plant, Deceased,” Ship of Fools, #54, Winter 2004
• “After the Party,” Ship of Fools, #54, Winter 2004
• “After Nineteen Years Together,” The Funny Paper #74, July 2004
• “Ode to a Dishwasher,” Ship of Fools, Number 53, Fall 2004
• “Desiderata,” Ship of Fools, Number 53, Fall 2004
• “The Last Family,” Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine #35, Jul/Aug/Sep 2004
• “Generation Ship,” Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine #35, Jul/Aug/Sep 2004
• “Cancel My Return Ticket,” Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine #35, Jul/Aug/Sep 2004
• “Just One,” Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine #35, Jul/Aug/Sep 2004
• “Children’s Classic,” Open Cut, an Iodine Summer Broadside, 2004
• “Climber,” Capper’s, 27 April 2004
• “Obsessive,” Ship of Fools, Number 52, Spring 2004
• “Life Without Makeup,” Main Street Rag, Volume 9, Number 1, Spring 2004; reprinted in Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, April 2015
• “After Cleaning Windows,” Main Street Rag, Volume 9, Number 1, Spring 2004
• “China: Ancient Technology Exhibition,” American Scholar, Spring 2004, Vol. 73, No. 2; reprinted in Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, March 2015; reprinted in The Poetry Nook Anthology, 2019
• “Couple,” Trained Monkey Press Broadside #22, March 2004
• “Dating Rules,” Trained Monkey Press Broadside #22, March 2004
• “Signs and Portents,” Iodine Poetry Journal, Volume V, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2004
• “In Between,” Pif Magazine, February 2004
• “Guarantees,” Pif Magazine, February 2004
• “First Impact,” The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, volume 6 #2, Autumn 2003
• “Art Will Be Appreciated,” The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, volume 6 #2, Autumn 2003
• “By the Numbers,” The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, volume 6 #2, Autumn 2003
• “Drawback of Life Extension,” The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, volume 6 #2, Autumn 2003
• “On Lying,” Ship of Fools, Number 51, Fall 2003
• “On Leaving,” St. Anthony Messenger, Volume 111, Number 6, November 2003; reprinted in Mad Poets Review, Volume 19, 2005
• “A Child’s Seasons,” Blind Man’s Rainbow, Volume 9, Issue 1, Autumn 2003
• “Three,” Blind Man’s Rainbow, Volume 9, Issue 1, Autumn 2003
• “Distant Relationships,” Pulp, Volume 2 Issue 32, October 2003
• “Once and Now,” Pulp, Volume 2 Issue 32, October 2003
• “The House of Pittsburgh,” Pulp, Volume 2 Issue 32, October 2003
• “Overlooked,” Pulp, Volume 2 Issue 32, October 2003
• “Nowhere Town,” Pulp, Volume 2 Issue 32, October 2003
• “Truck Stop,” Pulp, Volume 2 Issue 32, October 2003
• “Flame War,” Mythic Delirium #9, Summer/Fall 2003
• “Our Mother,” The Funny Paper #70, September 2003; reprinted in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 8 May 2004
• “Sustenance,” Red Owl #17, Autumn 2003
• “If They Come,” Fantastic #24, Summer 2003
• “To the Whales,” Space and Time #97, Spring 2003
• “Backwards,” Star*Line #25.6, November/December 2002; reprinted in The Poetry Nook Anthology, 2019
• “Experiment Eighty-Two,” The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, volume 5 #4, Autumn 2002
• “The Travelers,” The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, volume 5 #4, Autumn 2002; reprinted in Eye to the Telescope #25, July 2017
• “Soliloquy of a Nanotech Souffle,” Mobius, Volume 17, Number 2, Fall and Winter 2002
• “Rush Hour,” Mobius, Volume 17, Number 2, Fall and Winter 2002
• “Insignificant Others,” 2001: A Science Fiction Poetry Anthology, 2001; reprinted in The 2002 Rhysling Anthology, June 2002; reprinted in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 7 June 2003
• “Trees,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 25 August 2001; reprinted in poetrynook.com (winner of their 150th weekly contest); reprinted in The Poetry Nook Anthology, 2019
• “Silicon Bird,” Talebones #21, Spring 2001
• “Fall Clearance,” The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, volume 5 #1, Spring 2001
• “Every Other Day of the Year,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 11 November 2000; reprinted in The 2001 Rhysling Anthology, April 2001; reprinted in 2001: A Science Fiction Poetry Anthology, 2001; reprinted in SF Site, February 2002; mp3 recording appeared as part of 2015 SFPA Halloween Poetry Reading