Books



Digging Deep: Writing for Self-Discovery, Healing, & Transformation – Human Kindness Foundation, 2025
Toward a Unified Theory of Self: Poems (2nd ed.) – bramble press, 2025
Bone Orchard: Reflections on Life under Sentence of Death (2nd ed.) – BleakHouse Publishing, 2025
BOOZE BLOG: THE GROG
Poetry
- “Where Do Trees Go When They Die?,” Painted Pebble, forthcoming in Jan. 2026
- “What I Wish for You,” Poetry in Plain Sight, NC Poetry Society, Apr. 2024
- “Pulling Teeth, “Little Boxes,” “Injections,” Evening Street Review, Winter 2023
- “Special Delivery,” broadside printing at Sawtooth School for Visual Arts, Sept. 2022
- “Floor Cleaner,” Struggle for Liberty, Moonstone Arts Center, July 2022
- “Distance,” Beyond Poems and Paintings: Ekphrastic Art Exhibit II, Mooresville Arts, sponsored by Charlotte Writers’ Club-North, May-July 2022
- “On the Fifth Day of Russia’s War on Ukraine,” Support Ukraine, Moonstone Arts Center, May 2022
- “Judging Distance,” Poetry in Plain Sight, NC Poetry Society, Jan. 2022
- “Uncertain Times,” The North Meridian Review, Volume 2, Issue 1, Fall 2021 (p. 156)
- “Making Myself Up,” Press Pause, The Great Pause, 10 Dec. 2020 (also appearing in the coffee table book The Great Pause: Rearview 2020)
- “House Party,” Poetry South, Issue 12, Dec. 2020
- “Narcissus,” Wild Roof Journal, Issue 5, Nov. 2020
- “I Just Want to Know Their Names” and “Meanwhile in China,” The BeZine, Volume 7, Issue 4, Sept. 2020
- “Deep Sea Blues,” bee house journal, Summer 2020
- “While You Worried about Toilet Paper,” Waymark: Voices of the Valley, Issue 14, Summer 2020
- “Banana Bread,” The Learning & Writing Center at Guilford College, Facebook, 13 Apr. 2020
- “Crow” and “Live, Laugh, Love,” Waymark: Voices of the Valley, Issue 12, Summer 2019
- “Burning,” Rat’s Ass Review, Summer 2019
- “Thirty-Three,” Poetry in Plain Sight, Winston-Salem Writers, Spring 2019
- “Tea,” Waymark: Voices of the Valley, Issue 11, Fall/Winter 2018
- Toward a Unified Theory of Self: Poems, Kindle Direct Publishing, Mar. 2018
- “Recipe for Oatmeal,” West Texas Literary Review, Dec. 2017
- “Love Like Mangos,” Poetry in Plain Sight, Winston-Salem Writers, Winter 2017
- “After Close Study,” Slim Volume: This Body I Live in, Nov. 2015
- “On Having a Screenless Porch,” Baby Lawn Literature, Sept. 2015
- “A Found Thing,” Baby Lawn Weekly, 24 Aug. 2015
- “The Bald Woman at the Cafe” (first place), “Ode to Mom” (third place), and “For the Poet,” Coraddi, Fall 2003
PROSE
- “Suzanne Attends Her First AA Meeting,” Pilcrow & Dagger, Aug./Sept. 2015
PLAYS
- “Sacrifice,” Stained Glass Playhouse, 10-Minute Windows Virtual Play Festival, June 2021
Visual Art
- “Bride,” Wild Roof Journal, Issue #5, Nov. 2020
Selected Articles
Winston-Salem Monthly
- “Dead Man’s ‘Nog: Flavorful Family Eggnog Tradition Unites Generations,” Dec. 2021
- “Local Hero: Dale Pollock,” Sept. 2021
- “From Heartbreak to Soulmate: Author and Relationship Coach Shares Life Lessons in New Book,” June 2021
- “How a Little Imagination and Some Creative Marketing are Revitalizing Industry Hill,” Jan. 2018
- “Local Literary Nonprofit Winston-Salem Writers Connects Local Storytellers and Wordsmiths,” Dec. 2018
- “When It Comes to Sledding, the More the Merrier Says One Local Writer,” Dec. 2018
- “The Art of Brewing: Meet the Artists Behind Some of the City’s Most Iconic Beer Labels,” Nov. 2018
- “Crafting History: Historic W-S Breweries,” April 2018
- “The Heart of Making,” Nov. 2017
1808: Greensboro’s Monthly
- “Conversation Starters: Enjoy the Holidays with Multi-Award-Winning Fainting Goat Spirits,” Nov. 2019
- “How Nancy King Quaintance’s Love of Good Food Helped Shape the Quaintance-Weaver Empire,” Nov. 2019
- “World of Beer Craft: Battleground Brewers Guild Club, Members Bring Home Hardware,” Oct. 2019
- “The Allen Boys’ Feel-Good Style of Sacred Steel Debuts at the N.C. Folk Festival,” Sept. 2019
- “Anya Hinkle Brings Story-Based Songwriting to the N.C. Folk Festival,” Sept. 2019
- “Two Greensboro Bartenders are Shaking up the Cocktail Scene,” Sept. 2019
Triad City Beat
- “RiverRun 2018: Becoming Who I Was,” April 19, 2018
- “RiverRun 2018: Retreat,” April 19, 2018
- “6 Things GSO People Don’t Know about Winston-Salem,” April 19, 2018
- “Brewing on the Micro Scale with Leveneleven,” April 5, 2018
- Barstool column, Nov. 2016 to Aug. 2017
Awards
- “Injections,” finalist for the Poet Laureate Award, NC Poetry Society, 2022
- When the River Takes Us, finalist for Black Mountain Press’s quarterly chapbook contest, Dec. 2020
- “The Bald Woman at the Cafe,” First Place, Coraddi, Fall 2003
- “Ode to Mom,” Third Place, Coraddi, Fall 2003