PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
▪ The Tainted Dress (agented)
▪ More Devils Than Hell Can Hold (agented)
▪ In the City of Falling Stars (University of West Alabama Press, 2016)
▪ Dirty Little Angels (University of West Alabama Press, 2009)
▪ Haunted Bones (Louisiana Literature Press, 2006)
SHORT FICTION
▪ “Forgetting” South Dakota Review.
▪ “The Missing Girl” Five Points.
▪ "Neighborhood Association” The Southeast Review (finalist for World’s Best Short-short Story Contest)
▪ “Blood” New South. Winter 2013 Issue.
▪ "Winter Wonderland” Corium Magazine. Fall Issue 2015
▪ “Meat” New South. Winter 2013 Issue
▪ “The Girl with the Missing Face” Fwricition. Spring 2013
▪ “The Crucified Man” Corium Magazine. Winter Issue 2013.
▪ “Baby Proof” Corium Magazine. Winter Issue, 2013.
▪ “Sons of God” StorySouth. Summer 2005 Issue.
▪ “Riding the Devil’s Backbone” Southern Hum
POETRY
▪ “Botticelli’s Venus” Connecticut Review
▪ “The Birth of Night” Prairie Schooner.
▪ “Kindergarten Portrait of My Mother” New Delta Review
▪ “Coma” South Dakota Review
▪ “Black Mare” Texas Review
▪ “I Cut Myself While My Husband Plants Flowers” The Southeast Review.
▪ “The Spirit of Bridget Bishop” New Delta Review.
▪ “Prozac” Connecticut River Review.
▪ “Photograph of a Missing Girl” Texas Review
▪ “Sober in a Dry County” Louisiana Literature
▪ “Hypochondriac” and “Alzheimer’s” Caduceus (Yale)
▪ “My Grandfather’s Hands” Connecticut River Review.
▪ “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” New York Quarterly
▪ “Waiting to Leave” Half Tones to Jubilee
▪ “Envisioning the Marsh” Half Tones to Jubilee
▪ “Worn” Midwest Poetry Review
▪ “Winter Funeral” Slipstream
▪ “Unexpected Conditions” Midwest Poetry Review
▪ “Remembering Leanne Thibodeaux” Midwest Poetry Review.
▪ “Memories of Chartres Street” Crab Creek Review.
NON-FICTION
▪ Rhythm & Rhyme: An interview with Louisiana Poet Laureate Jack Bedell. Country Roads Magazine.
▪ The Axe Man of New Orleans: A Jazz-Loving Jack the Ripper, Crixeo, August 2018
▪ The Yellow Fever Plot of 1864: A Confederate Conspiracy ▪ Crixeo, June, 2018
▪ 4 Strong Women Who Were Vital to the Civil War. Crixeo, May, 2018
▪ 5 Legendary Duels: When Disputes Ended in Bloodshed, Crixeo, April 2018
▪ Contemporary Southern Writers: Slaves to the Old South. StorySouth (Spring Issue, 2011
▪ Aiming for Perfection: Meet Nationally Ranked Archer, Alee Vestal-Laborde. Dig Magazine.
INDIVIDUAL WORK PUBLISHED IN LITERATURE ANTHOLOGIES
▪ Beyond Forgetting: Poems and Prose about Alzheimer’s Disease, (Kent State University Press).
▪ Two poems included in Open Doors: Monstrous Myths & Legends Anthology, Wayman Press.
▪ Poetic Voices without Borders, (Gival Press).
▪ In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself. MW Enterprises, 2002.