Publications: 

STOP.” Booth. January 2024.

Hidden History.” Collateral Journal. Issue 8.1. November 2023.

Common Tongue.” SCRIBES*MICRO*FICTION. Issue #31. July 2023.

 “What competes in the room where she writes.” Bending Genres. June 2023.

 “A Military Liberal Education.” The Wrath-Bearing Tree. February 2023.

 “Jaffrey, New Hampshire, Willa Cather’s Creative Intersection for My Antonia.” The Ekphrastic Review. April 2023.

 “Behind Her House.” 50 Give or Take. Story No. 390, 2023.

 “For Love.” The Bath Flash Fiction Contest. Judge’s Choice. Snow Crow, vol. 6, 2021.

“First, Unbecoming.” The Line Veteran’s Literary Review. February 2021.

“Willa Cather.” Twentieth Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context. Edited by Linda DeRoche.

Reading My Ántonia, Visiting a Memory.” Nonfiction. The Willa Cather Review. Spring 2019. 

“‘Heroic in Size’: Reading My Ántonia as Willa Cather’s First World War One Novel.” The Willa Cather Review. Summer 2018. 

“M.F.K. Fisher’s Culinary Autobiographies.” The Routledge Companion to Food Literature, edited by Donna Lee Brien and Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Routledge. Spring 2018.

Here Is Where My War Story Begins.” Nonfiction. CONSEQUENCE Magazine, edited by George Kovach and Catherine Parnell, June 17, 2017. (Pushcart Prize nominee)

Cather’s Prescience in One of Ours.” Willa Cather Newsletter & Review, edited by Ann Romines. The Willa Cather Foundation, May 2017.

 “Determined About Determinism:  Genetic Manipulation, Memory, and Identity in Shaping the Post-Apocalyptic Self in Dark Angel and The Divergent Series.” The Last Midnight: Critical Essays on Apocalyptic Narratives in Millennial Media, McFarland Publishing: 2016.

 “Blurring Boundaries: Women in War in Diane Ackerman’s The Zookeeper’s Wife.” Albeit, edited by Tracy Bealer and Natalie Leppard, Fall 2015.

“Creative Genius: Willa Cather’s Characters and the Influence of the American Desert Southwest.” Critical Insights: Southwestern Literature, edited by William Brannon, Grey House/Salem Press, 2016.

 “The Fine Reality of Hunger Satisfied: Food as Metaphorical Substitute in Panem.” Of Bread and Blood: Essays on The Hunger Games Trilogy, McFarland Publishing: 2012.

Finding Ourselves in Our Food:  MFK Fisher’s The Art of Eating for the 21st Century.” POROI: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Rhetorical Analysis and Invention, edited by A.P. Lamberti, volume 11, issue 1, 2015

 “How War Becomes Love: Donovan Campbell’s Memoir Joker One.”  War, Literature, and the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities, volume 21, United States Air Force Academy, 2009.

Telling True War Stories.”  War, Literature, and the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities, Twentieth Anniversary Edition, United States Air Force Academy, 2008.

“Shoulders to Wings: The Provenance of Winged Imagery from Kate Chopin’s Juvenilia through The Awakening.”  Co-author with Dr. Thomas Bonner, Jr.  I am primary author.  Xavier Review, volume 25, issue 2, Xavier University of Louisiana 2005.

Fruit Trees and Tamarisk Brooms: Grafting a Unique Perspective of American History in Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop.”  Willa Cather Newsletter and Review, volume 49, issue 2, The Willa Cather Foundation, 2005.

“Incognito.”  Caesura, volume 25 University of Delaware, 2005. (fiction)

“Lazim Öldürmek.”  Concho River Review, volume 17, issue 1, SASU Press, 2003.