Writings

Journal Publications

Awake For Ever in a Sweet Unrest, Catamaran Literary Reader, Winter 2024

The Electric Owl and Other Teaching Stories, in Teach Your Children Well, Essays on the Road to Teaching and Learning, Marymount Institute Press, Los Angeles, 2022

How Animals Think, Feel, and Communicate Without Language an interview in Psychology Today, interviewer Marc Bekoff, March 6, 2020

The Hammer, the Sickle, and the Heart, Chicago Quarterly Review (25th Anniversary), Volume 29, 2019

La Guerra de las Flores, Catamaran Literary Reader, Spring 2018

Models of the Universe: In Memory of William Gass, The Los Angeles Review of Books: BLARB, December 30, 2017

The End of Something and the Beginning of Something Else, Intellectual Refuge, intellectualrefuge.com, August 2017

Escape, Intellectual Refuge, intellectualrefuge.com, Volume 10, June 2017

There on a Bluff, flash fiction, Nov.-Dec. 2016, www.whatbookspress.com. Los Angeles, CAEmerge, Roscoe from the novel The Legend of La Diosa, Chicago Quarterly Review, Chicago, Vol.19, January 2015, pp. 21-27 (nominated for a Pushcart Prize)

Approach, Diosa, from The Legend of La Diosa, Chicago Quarterly Review, Chicago, Vol. 19, January 2015, pp. 27-35 (Nominated for a Pushcart Prize)

Snow White, Part One, Intellectual Refuge, www.intellectualrefuge.com, Los Angeles, Volume 8, June 15, 2015, 6 pp.

Snow White Part Two, Intellectual Refuge, www.intellectualrefuge.com, Los Angeles, Volume 8, June 26, 2015, 14 pp.

Sparrow, Crow, New Flash Fiction Review, Vol. 1, Meadville, PA, Fall 2014

What’s Up in Europe? Intellectual Refuge, Vol. 7, Los Angeles, Sept.-December 2014

The Silver Wall, Intellectual Refuge, Vol. 6, Los Angeles, March-June 2014

The Gaze, featured essay, Intellectual Refuge, Vol. 4, Los Angeles, CA, March-June 2013

The Legend of La Diosa, Catamaran Literary Reader, Vol. 2, Santa Cruz, CA, February 2013 (Nominated for a 2014 Pushcart Prize)

Immortality, Fiction Week, Ojai, CA, November 2012

Barking Up the Wrong Tree, featured essay, Intellectual Refuge, Volume 3, Los Angeles, October 19, 2012

Power, power you can’t conceive, They’ve classified the sky top secret now, The tricks they tried, how childish they were, If you wish, call it a premonition, A free trip to the moon, and And so it appears that these beings from another world have appealed for our help; Sci-fi poems coauthored with Gail Wronsky in Mental Shoes, Los Angeles, October 2012.

Pet Me While I Eat, opening chapter for book of the same title, featured essay, Intellectual Refuge, Volume 2, Los Angeles, August 31, 2012

An Island in the Moon, in the anthology A Princess of Mars & New Tales of the Red Planet, Sword and Planet, Los Angeles, CA, July 2012

Once my air is out, water won’t matter, Every woman in the world, we all live in fear, Making a decision like that would scare anyone, A space ship from where? From outer space, There’s not a drop of booze left in this house, and Who am I to stand in the way of science? Sci-fi poems coauthored with Gail Wronsky, The Offending Adam, 111.1, July 2012.

A Letter from St. Paul’s, On site in London, Intellectual Refuge, Volume 2, Los Angeles, CA, January 2012

What Is Magic Journalism? featured essay, Intellectual Refuge, Volume 1, Los Angeles, CA, Spring 2011.

East of Hollywood, featured essay, Shimmyhoots, Virginia Commonwealth University, February 2011.

My Chicken Obsidian, featured essay, The Offending Adam, University of Southern California, December 2010.

Collapsing With the Stars: Literary Life Under the Hollywood Sign, Luvina On-Line, University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico, February 2010.

Colapso estelar: vida literaria al pie del letrero de Hollywood Luvina, Number 57, Invierno 2009, Los Angeles City issue, Guadalajara, Mexico (translated by Alicia Partnoy).

Der netteste Kind im Universum, a translation of my story, The Nicest Kid in the Universe from the Norton Anthology of Flash Fiction, translated by Waltraud Kolb at the University of Vienna Translation Workshop and read on July 14, 2008 for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF), 1460 AM and 94.0 FM and recorded on CD,

Why India and China Won’t Take Over the World, The Chattahoochee Review, Volume 27, No. 3-4, Dunwoody, GA, pp. 79-90, Spring/Summer 2007. Nominated for Best American Creative Non-fiction 2007.

The Yeti Listener, Pocket Field Guide, (11 pp.), Atlanta, GA, December 2006.

Roscoe’s Horrible Day, The Chattahoochee Review, Volume 26, Number 4, pp. 37-51, Dunwoody, GA, Summer 2006.

The Book of Suicide: Emails for the Dead, (29 pp.), Verb Audio Magazine, Decatur/Atlanta, GA, Spring 2006.

The First Plums of Summer, (26 pp.), 3 podcasts by Verb Audio Magazine, Decatur/Atlanta, GA, Spring 2006.
from The Last Book of Everything, Along the Lake: an Anthology of Great Lakes Writers, pp. 114-120 (includes the poem Psalm 51, pp. 116-117), Ye Olde Font Shoppe Press, New Haven, CT, 2005.

Make Love Not War, Silent Voices, Vol. I, No. 1, pp. 110-111, Ex Machina Press, Glendale, CA, 2005.

Everything in Time, The Santa Monica Review, Vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 130-147, Santa Monica, CA, Fall 2004.

Simplicity Too Soft, 88, A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry, Issue 3, Venice, CA, October, 2003,

What May Become A Man, Western Humanities Review, Vol. LII, No. 4, pp. 361-371, Salt Lake City, Utah, Winter 1998.

The Father Sutra, VOLT, Vol. No. 4, pp. 84-85; Corte Madera, CA, 1998.

Joy, The Messenger, pp. 5-6; Topanga, CA, August 1997

Forever Burning, Dove-Penguin Anthology Absolute Disaster, pp. 323-340; Los Angeles, 1996

Rise and Fall of the New West, see Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, San Francisco, July 1995

The Stream of Someone Else’s Memory, Denver Quarterly, vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 88-100; Denver, Colorado, 1994

The Nicest Kid in the Universe, Norton Anthology Flash Fiction, pp. 152-154; W. W. Norton, New York 1992

Breathing Fire (non-fiction), High Performance Magazine, pp. 32-33; Los Angeles, Summer 1992

The Darkest Night of the World, Santa Monica Review, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 19-36; Santa Monica, CA, 1991

Duluoz Incarnate, Western Humanities Review, Vol. XLV, No. 4, pp. 343-350; Salt Lake City, Utah, 1991

The Water Beneath the Ice, Chicago Review, Vol. 37, Nos. 2&3, pp. 26-45; Chicago, IL, 1991 (nominated for a Pushcart Prize)

Pere De Nom, Hayden’s Ferry Review, No. 6, pp. 25-41; Tempe, AZ, 1990

Excerpt from Experiments with Life and Deaf, Quarterly West, Tenth

Excerpt from Loop’s Progress, Quarterly West, No. 22, pp. 60-63; Salt Lake City, UT, 1986

The Bad New Days, MINOTAUR, Vol. 1, No. 6, pp. 51-56; Burlingame, CA, 1983

YO-SE-MITE, FACE TO ROCK FACE Anthology, p. 3; University of California Press, Davis, CA, 1982

The Catch, California Quarterly, No. 20, pp. 9-20; Davis, CA, 1981

Leo’s Date, Firelands Review, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 32-39; Ohio, 1981

Melvin and Kelly, New Kent Quarterly, No. 1, pp. 47-51; Kent, OH, 1981

Looking For Goddard, Pipedream, pp. 36-43; Storrs, CT, 1981