Writing
Publications & Awards
— “The Haunt of Santa Fe” (Fiction), forthcoming in Hobart.
— “Salted Wounds” (Fiction), [PANK] Magazine, April 2012.
— “On Seeing ‘Red’: Or, Why I’m Selfish When It Comes To Art” (Essay), Specter Literary Magazine, Jan. 23, 2012.
— “Chris Castle’s new album takes flight” (Music Feature), Funcoast.com, Jan. 11, 2012.
— “The lake in Francine Prose’s Goldengrove” (Flash Fiction), Let’s Hang, Nov. 28, 2011.
— “The Unexamined Fact is Like a Rattlesnake” (Essay), Specter Literary Magazine, November 7, 2011.
— “This Is Not A Pipe” selected for “Best of Hot Metal Bridge” anthology; forthcoming Fall 2011.
— “Do It With Mourning: The Merits of Making a Mess” (Column), Specter Literary Magazine, Oct. 19, 2011.
— “I Am Speaking the Language” (Fiction; published at Used Furniture Review) selected as a Fwriction Review “Story of the Day,” October 10, 2011.
— “I Am Speaking the Language” (Fiction), Used Furniture Review, October 10, 2011.
— “X-Men: First Class & Inception: What Films Lend to Writing” (Column), Specter Literary Magazine, October 6, 2011.
— “Keep Your Masthead Clean, or: Just Say No to Literary Incest” (Humor, Essay),Specter Literary Magazine, October 3, 2011.
— James Franco’s “Palo Alto”: A Twitter Review by @OhEmGillie & @AshleyBethard (Review), Specter Literary Magazine, September 26, 2011.
— “On Magical Writing and a Gypsy Named Kerouac” (Column), Specter Literary Magazine, September 19, 2011.
— “Albums of our Lives: Shooter Jennings’ Put the O Back in Country” (Essay), The Rumpus, August 12, 2011.
— “Poste restante, part 1” (Fiction/guest blog), Kaffe in Katmandu, June 24, 2011.
— Book Review: Frank Hinton, “I Don’t Respect Female Expression” (Review),Peripheral Surveys, June 16, 2011.
— “Last Book I Loved, Goldengrove” (Essay), The Rumpus, May 4, 2011.
— “Here’s What Death Means for a Squirrel” (Lyric Essay), Peripheral Surveys, May 2, 2011.
— “Fixed Points in the Universe” (Essay), Sea Giraffe, March 2, 2011.
— “From Egypt to Obama” (Editorial), Sandusky Register, Feb. 23, 2011.
— “Readers Report Back From…Neighborhood” on The Rumpus, Jan. 3, 2011 (pg. 7).
— “This Is Not A Pipe” nominated by Hot Metal Bridge for the Dzanc Books “Best of the Web 2011” Anthology.
— “This Is Not A Pipe” (Essay), Hot Metal Bridge, University of Pittsburgh, Spring 2010.
— Runner-up; “Shape in a Misshapen World” Festival of the Arts literary contest in prose for my nonfiction piece, “This is Not a Pipe,” May 2009.
— Ashland University Undergraduate Creative Writing Award in Prose, April 2008.
