Bibliography

"The engineers of the future will be poets."

-Terence McKenna

Publications

“Cherenkov Time.” ZNB Presents: Year One, edited by Joshua Palmatier, Binghamton, NY, Zombies Need Brains, 1 July 2023.

“Gallows.” Writers of the Future Volume 38, edited by David Farland, Los Angeles, Galaxy Press, 28 June 2022. Golden Pen Award; Benjamin Franklin Gold Medal.

“It’s a Nash Equilibrium, Then.” Fission III, edited by Eugen Bacon and Gene Rowe, Stoke-on-Trent, GB-ENG, The British Science Fiction Association, 2023.

“Obsidian Grackle.” Murderbirds, edited by Mike Jack Stoumbos, Midlothian, VA, WonderBird Press, 21 Apr. 2023.

“Old Dean.” HyphenPunk Magazine #9, Johnson City, TN, HyphenPunk, 4 Sept. 2023.

Paranorm. Morton, IL, King & Vagabond Press, 11 Aug. 2023.

“The Otherworld Theory.” Aurealis #162, Mount Waverley, Vic, Chimaera Publications, 6 July 2023.

“You are the Mother of Doomsday.” Murderbugs, edited by Mike Jack Stoumbos, Midlothian, VA, WonderBird Press, 2024.

Awards

2023 Gold Medal (Science Fiction), Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPA), Traverse City, MI.

2023 Benjamin Franklin Award Gold Medal, Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), San Diego, CA.

2022  Golden Pen Award, L. Ron Hubbard Achievement Awards, Author Services, Inc., Los Angeles, CA.

2021  1st place (Q4), L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Vol. 38, Galaxy Press, Inc., Los Angeles, CA.

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