encore magazine offered me the rare opportunity to step inside the iconic Leery home from Dawson’s Creek and write about what it felt like to step into the past and inside my favorite television series. The article, paired with incredible Dawson’s Creek art by local artist Gia Marie, is available in print in encore’s winter issue.
stories
Sorry About Your Bird — The Masters Review (2020)
Listen. — Helen, Issue 11 (2019)
(This Is) Another Song About Leaving — Door is a Jar, Issue 12 (2019)
Enough — semicolon lit, Issue 2 (2019)
Nothing But Ash — The American Dream: A Collection of Flash Fiction and Accompanying Art (2018)
Caesura — Steel Toe Review, Issue 27 (2017)
Taking My Turn on the Sin Wagon — Steel Toe Review, Issue 27 (2017, reprint)
Hurricane — Steel Toe Review, Issue 27 (2017)
Taking My Turn on the Sin Wagon — Propaganda: A Collection of Flash Fiction and Accompanying Art (2017)
Brand New Dance — Adelaide, Number 6 (2017)
Maybe Not Today — Cape Fear Review, Issue 1 (2014)
Fruit Jars — Literary Orphans, Issue 9 (2014)
true stories
Tennessee Homesick Blues - Grist, Issue 17 (2025)
forte crescendo fortissimo — Blue Earth Review (2021)
The Philadelphia Story: Sleepless in Starkville - Press Pause (2020)
Alto — X-R-A-Y (2020)
Memories from Growing Up in a Small, Religious, Southern Town (A List) — The Daily Drunk (2020)
Whiskey River Blues — Moon City Review (2020)
Taking the Long Way Around (Selected Scriptures) — Press Pause, Volume 1 (2018)
Gaslight — The Pinch (2017)
featured
encore magazine’s spring 2026 issue focused on music in the Wilmington area. I had the honor of interviewing Bevin Prince and her incredible team of instructors to highlight how they blend music and movement to foster a close-knit community of acceptance and love at Recess by Bevin Prince, a spin studio that privileges community over competition and makes you this promise: you’ll never be picked last.
poetry
A Kill Bill haiku — The Daily Drunk (2020)
interviews
Sound, Landscape, and Strange-Looking Flowers: An Interview with Poet Anna Lena Phillips Bell — encore magazine (April 2026)
Unraveling the Origin of Folklore and Legend in Bloodroot: An Interview with Novelist Amy Greene — Palaver (2014)
awards & contests
James Hurst Prize for Fiction, Honorable Mention for “Sorry About Your Bird” (2019)
Blue Earth Review Flash Creative Nonfiction Contest, Top 25 for “Headlights” and “All Lions” (2019)
Philip Furia Award for Excellence, University of North Carolina Wilmington (2018)