Poetry:
"Transcontinental" in The Blotter #5, May 2008. http://blotterrag.com/back-issues/2008-05.pdf
"Death on the Highway", "Pronouns for My Sister", and "Love in the Mode of van Gogh" in Neon #17, 2008. http://www.neonmagazine.co.uk/pdfissues/neon17.pdf
"Why I'm A Bad Feminist" in Gertrude #13, Winter 2009.
"10 (Atlantic)" in Gloom Cupboard #129 (Poetry), December 2010. http://gloomcupboard.com/2010/12/12/poetry-129/
"Jack the Ripper", "Abandon", and "Desespera" in Danse Macabre, 28 November 2011.
http://dansemacabre.art.officelive.com/DanseMacabreDuJour.aspx
Fun fact: These are actually poems I wrote in 2006-2007, and each one of them is about a specific character, two historial and one fictional.
Ongoing turtle poetry project at theshelledlife.blogspot.com.
Fiction:
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"The Painter, She Smiles Like Sunbeams" (originally published in Conte 7.1, September 2011)
Synopsis: A stuttering, socially inept college student meets his idol, a cynical, middle-aged artist who might or might not bear a resemblance to Vivien Leigh. They begin an affair that is mutually destructive...but not necessarily dysfunctional. Caveat: Contains brief scenes of sexuality.
"Mercy" (originally published in Printer's Devil Review 1.2, Fall 2011)
Synopsis: A Southern Gothic tale about poverty, neglect, and mental illness as related through the experience of an Appalachian teenager.
"Nazareth" (originally published in The Subtopian 5, June 2012)
Synopsis: A few years after an unspecified apocalyptic event, two wanderers share a chance encounter. With faulty memories and no foreseeable purpose in life, they reflect on the nature of faith and loss at the end of the world.
"Hole"
Synopsis: A freak industrial accident leaves a man trapped in a hole in the ground. Alone and injured, he is pushed to the brink of insanity by the broken steel beam that hovers above him, threatening at any moment to fall and end his life. Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum."
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"A Necessary Fantasy"
Synopsis: When she was eighteen years old, Rebecca Castille moved to California. A year later, she became Honey Halliwell, an adult film actress. Now, after a short but productive career in the porn industry, Honey wants to go legit. But her Hollywood dream soon becomes her own personal hell, and she learns that her present may be darker than her past.Conference and Seminar Papers:
"Batman’s Dragon Lady: Feminine Power, the Mythical East, and Talia al Ghul" at Catwoman to Katniss: Villainesses and Heroines of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 2012.
"The Wicked Anti-Mother: Bellatrix Lestrange and Female Villainy" at Mythic, Magical and Monstrous Women in Contemporary Women's Writing, July 2012.
"Girls Like This Stuff, Right? DC's New 52 and the Problem of the Female Comic Book Fan" (conference paper) at Going Underground? Gender and Subcultures, September 2012.
A linguistic analysis of Lady Gaga's lyrics, title TBA, to be presented in May 2013 at Loughborough University.
Journal Articles, Book Chapters, Essays, etc:
"Who's Afraid of the Rubber Man? Perversions and Subversions of Sex and Class in American Horror Story" in Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MECCSA-PGN 5.2 (special issue on American telefantasy), 2012.
I currently have two academic books chapters under editorial review, both related to comics, and am turning another conference paper into a journal article this spring.
