Essays & Stories

Selected Essays and Stories:

In Praise of Pulitzer Prize-Winner Jayne Anne Phillips in Lithub

No Son of Mine – Excerpt (from Chapter 1) in Belt Magazine

No Son of Mine – Excerpt – (from “February 2020 & March 2020”) in Salvation South

Truth, Shame, and Writing a Memoir – in true

“Black Walnuts” in Still: The Journal

My Appalachia: Coming Home in a Changing America at English Kills Review

The Family Guns – Guns, Gay Bars, and the Search for Safety on Huffington Post

Do I Have to Choose Between a Good Life and Good Teeth? on Buzzfeed Reader

“Through the Still Hours” in Eyes Glowing at the Edge of the Woods: Fiction and Poetry from West Virginia (WVU Press) – also featured in Best Gay Stories 2017 (Lethe Press)

“The Rope Swing” in Jonathan: A Journal of Gay Fiction (Sibling Rivalry Press) – also anthologized in LGBTQ Fiction and Poetry from Appalachia (WVU Press)