M.F.A., Creative Writing, University of Florida, 2000.
      
M.A., English, Southeastern Louisiana University, 1998.
      
B.A., English, Southeastern Louisiana University, 1996.

FICTION (Novels)

• Dirty Little Angels (University of West Alabama, 2009)

FICTION (Short Stories)

• "Sons of God" published in Summer 2005 issue of StorySouth
• "Riding the Devil’s Backbone" published in Issue 4 of Southern Hum

POETRY (Books)

• Haunted Bones (Louisiana Literature Press, 2006)

POETRY (Chapbooks)

• Inventing an End (Lone Willow Press, 2002)

Individual Poems Published in Literary Journals

• "Botticelli’s Venus” Connecticut Review
• "The Birth of Night." Prairie Schooner
• "Prozac" Connecticut Poetry Review
• “Kindergarten Portrait of My Mother” New Delta Review
• “Coma” South Dakota Review
• "My Grandfather's Hands" Connecticut Poetry Review
• "Black Mare” Texas Review
• “I Cut Myself While My Husband Plants Flowers.” The Southeast Review
• “The Spirit of Bridget Bishop. New Delta Review
• “Photograph of a Missing Girl” Texas Review
• “Sober in a Dry County during Severe Weather” Louisiana Literature
• Hypochondriac” and “Alzheimer’s” Caduceus.
• Revolver” and “Gone” Story South
• The Drowned Light.” Passages North
• Ode to Gumbo” Southern Hum
• “Habit.” Louisiana Literature
• At a Filling Station, On the Anniversary of Your Death.” Louisiana Literature
• September Funeral” (reprint) Story South.
• The Ballad of Leander Trueblood. Southern Hum
• Inventing an End” (reprint) Story South
• A Retired Voodoo Priestess Talks about Revenge” Southern Hum
• "The Etymology of Love." Lullwater Review
• Apparition in a Divorce Decree.” Tar River Poetry
• Cow Tipping Near Indian Creek” Southern Hum
• The Etymology of Science” Red Cedar Review
• “Marie Laveau Talks about Magic” The Spoon River Poetry Review
• "Inventing an End” Red Cedar Review
• "Apparition in a Marriage Certificate." The Louisville Review
• September Funeral” Half Tones to Jubilee
• Raymond Livaudais Talks about Faith” The New York Quarterly
• “Waiting to Leave” Half Tones to Jubilee
• “Envisioning the Marsh” Half Tones to Jubilee
• “The Etymology of Love.” Tundra
• “Worn” Midwest Poetry Review
• “Winter Funeral.” Slipstream
• “Unexpected Conditions” Midwest Poetry Review
• “Ode to Laundromat Dryers” Small Pond Magazine of Literature
• “The Dancing Men at The Rainbeaux Casino Lounge” Small Pond Magazine of Literature
• “On Leaving the House Where I Spent My Youth.” Pegasus
• “The Blind Man Touches My Face.” Small Pond Magazine of Literature
• “The Passing of the Eye.” Pegasus
• “Remembering Leanne Thibodeaux.” Midwest Poetry Review
• “Memories of Chartres Street.” Crab Creek Review
• “The Lines That Separate Us.” Pegasus
• “My Stepfather Speaks to Me about Death.” Grasslands Review
• An Empty Window.” The Comstock Review
• "Dead Fox." StorySouth

Individual Poems Published in Literature Anthologies

• Beyond Forgetting: Poems and Prose about Alzheimer's Disease, Kent State University Press.
• In the Eye. Thunder Rain Press, 2006.
• In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself . MW Enterprises, 2002.

"I can’t see a man but you! Even with my eyes closed, I just see you! Why don’t you please get fat or
ugly or something so I could stand it?" --Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

"Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives." --Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

"Earthlings must be the terrors of the Universe! If other planets aren’t now in danger from Earth,
they soon will be."--Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five

"The jury foreman’s eyes twitch, then fall. “Guilty”. Even before he says it, I feel departments in the office of my life start to close up shop; files are shredded, sensitivities are folded into neatly marked boxes, lights and alarms are switched off. As the husk of my body is guided from the court, I sense a single little man sat at the bottom of my soul. He hunches over a card table under a naked low-watt bulb, sipping flat beer from a plastic cup. I figure he must be the janitor. I figure he must be me. -- DBC Pierre, Vernon God Little

"I imagine all of us who are like me grow up with our own ticking bombs planted inside us. You know, the bombs of anger, fear, resentment, and plain ol' not liking yourself to a healthy depth. Some of us carry the complete bunch. Sometimes the ticking from that bunch of bombs is so loud you can't hear another word." --Daniel Woodrell, Tomato Red

"God Almighty, why didin't Anse carry you to the nearest sawmill and stick your leg in the saw?
That would have cured it. Then, you all could have stuck his head into the saw and cured a whole family." --William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

"She would have been a good woman, The Misfit said, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life."--Flannery O’Conner, A Good Man is Hard to Find

"Meat,"the doctor explained. "It's all meat in the end. A dog, a ham, a sheep’s leg, that woman, me, you. There comes a time we’re all no more than meat."-- Josh Russell, Yellow Jack

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut