Pubs, Summer 2016

The new issue of Cold Mountain Review, which includes my story “Forage,” has just gone live. A “mountain story” inspired … More

Pubs, Spring 2016 Edition

The new issue of Shenandoah, which includes my story “The Fossil Record,” has just gone live. The working title for … More

Stay in the room. It needn’t be an actual room. You can be alone in a busy cafe. I’ve gotten … More

Many thanks to Front Porch Journal, which has nominated my story “Bubble” for this year’s Pushcart Prize. You can check … More

One must keep on looking without for a second relaxing the intensity of emotion, the determination not to be put … More

… I am drunk on the words of summer: Brandywine, Celeste, Anise Swallowtail, Cloudless Sulfur. My poem “Surfeit” has … More

The new Front Porch Journal, which includes my story “Bubble,” is out and on the virtual stands. Among other things, … More

Everything was named for something it used to be, something it no longer was. This was supposed to be ironic … More

Back in the early aughts, soon after I returned to Georgia after spending a decade elsewhere, I wrote a personal essay in which … More

Let’s face it: every writer is, at heart, a reader. Because of that, every writer probably has a Bookstore Story. This … More