Publication History

Fiction

• "Down in the Rio Puerco" (Under Consideration)
• “Parrish Hall.” Foglifter.  Volume 3, Issue 1. April 2018
•  “Sarah and the Mantis.” Duke City Dime Stories.  March 2014. (Flash Fiction)
• “City of Lost Angels,” an excerpt from The View From Here.  As Us Journal.  Issue 1.  Spring 2013.
• “Everything Lights Up Red.”  Oklahoma Review.  Vol. 11 Issue2/Vol. 12 Issue 1, Fall 2010 and Spring 2011 Combined.
• "Asking For It." Phoebe. Fall 2010.
• “Jules.”  Tayo Literary Magazine.  Issue 2, Fall 2010. (Flash Fiction)
• “Hindsight.”  Six Sentences.  Dec. 2009. (Flash Fiction)

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Creative Nonfiction

• ​“Cash Cow.”  The Sun. September 2015. Issue 477.
•  “The Dress.” Duke City DimeStories.  February 2014. Reprinted in the DimeStories 10th Anniversary Anthology, Dec. 2014
• “Oh, Yolanda: Writers Respond to Typhoon Haiyan.” Vela Magazine.  November 2013.
• “Changing the World One Interview at a Time: A Conversation between Nia King, Art Activist, and Guest Editor, Samantha Tetangco Ocena."  As Us Journal.  Summer 2013.

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Other

• Bloomsbury Review.  Vol. 28, Issue 1, May/June 2008. “New Tracks Laid by Lise Erdrich in Night Train.”  Book review. 
  
• CALYX: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women.  Vol. 25 Issue 1, Winter 2009. “New Tracks Laid by Lise Erdrich in Night Train.”  Book review reprinted.  ​
  

Poetry

• "@Penacook Ave" and "@290 E21st Street." deComp. September/October 2018.  (Forthcoming)
  
• “@Limekiln State Park II.”  Gnarled Oak. Issue 10. Oct-Nov 2016. 
• “@Limekiln State Park I” and “@ the Dentist.”  Third Wednesday – A Literary and Arts Journal.  Vol. IX, No. 4. Fall 2016.
• “@ Griffith Park Observatory II.” Antithesis.  Volume 26: Liminal (2016).
• "@ Joshua Tree National Park," "Fiesta Weekend," & "Love Song for Randi."  In Parenthesis.  Summer 2016.
• “@ Griffith Park Observatory I.” Stone Path Review.  Vol. 3, Issue 12, Fall 2014.
• “Outside the Fourth Story Window" & “Winter Arrives Late in Albuquerque”  200 New Mexico Poems.  May 24, 2012 & Nov., 2012.
• “Lessening” & “August and No A.C.”  Gertrude.  Issue 18, Summer 2012     
• “The Convergence Zone." 99 Poems for the 99 Percent.  Feb. 1, 2012.  Reprinted in the 99 Poems for the 99 Percent: Anthology of Poetry.  San Francisco: 99 The Press, 2014.
• “Upon Viewing Man Ray’s Noire et blanche.”  Gargoyle. No. 57, Summer 2011.
• “To Shannon, Upon News of her Engagement (to Someone Else).”  From “Shapeshifting Poems: The Power of Transformation” by Lisa Chavez.  Wingbeats: Exercises & Practice in Poetry.  Austin, Texas: Dos Gatos Press, 2011.
• “Alamogordo Blues.”  The Single Hound. Spring 2011.

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Blogs

• A Writers’ March.  Blog.  Est. Feb 2011.
• LGBTQ Writers Caucus. Association of Writers and Writing Program. Est. Sept 2016.

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Writing Samples

"The Going Rate of a Cash Cow" - Creative Non-Fiction

"Asking For It" - Fiction

"@ Joshua Tree National Park," "Fiesta Weekend," & "Love Song for Randi" - Poetry

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