PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Poetry Published in Adept Press, Alembic, Armchair Aesthete, Backstreet, Barbaric Yawp, Beauty for Ashes, Bellowing Ark, Blood and Feathers, Buckle &, California Quarterly Poetry Review, Chiron Review, Creosote, Daybreak, Deronda Review, Digitalverse.org, Doggerel, Down in the Dirt, The Forum, Footprints, Green Hills Literary Lantern,  Green Rock, Hard Row to Hoe, HazMat, Homestead Review, Hurrican Review, Into the Teeth of the Wind, Iodine, Isle of Myst, Karamu, Kimera, Languageandculture online, Licking River Review, Limestone Circle, The Listening Eye, The Louiseville Review, Lucid Moon, The Lucid Stone, Maelstrom, Miller’s Pond, Mojo Risin’, Monkey Flower, Muse of Fire, Nite Writers, Nomad’s Choir, No Experience Required, Northern Stars, Nostalgically, Number One, Offerings, Out of Line, Parnassus Literary Journal, Peaky Hyde, Pegasus, The Penwood Review, Plainsongs, Poetry Motel, Poem, Poetic License, Poetic Voices, Poet’s Haven, Poet’s House, Poet’s Ink, The Poet’s Page, Polyphony, Prose Ax, Pulsar, The Rag Mag, Rambunctious Review, Riversedge, The Rose Review, Scroll, Seedhouse, Ship of Fools, Slant, The Small Pond, Soul Fountain, Sugar Mule, The Sunday Suitor, Surviving Diabetes, Through a Spider’s Eyes, Thumbprints, Timber Creek Review, Uprising, Voiding the Void, Westview, Wired Art From the Heart, and Wise Publication, and Words Out of the Flatlands

Newsclips published in The Cameron Collegian

Public relations clips published through the Lawton Chamber of Commerce

Greeting card clips published through Blue Mountain Arts, The Calligraphy Collection, Allport Editions, West Graphics, Sangamon, Inc., and Oatmeal Studios

Non-fiction published in Byline Magazine and Red River Family Magazine

Essays published in The Rose Review, The Inspire Others Project


Poetry chapbook, A DIFFERENT SONG, published by Rose Rock Press in 1999

Short Fiction published in The Rose Review, Combat Magazine, and

Noctournal Ooze.


CONTESTS

Second Place for Freedom (short story) in OWFI’s 2010 contest

Third Place for Sunlight (poem) in OWFI’s 2010 contest

Fourth Place for Djangology (p0em) in OWFI’s 2010 contest

First Place for SKUNKS, TRUNKS, AND PEDRO (screenplay) in OWFI’s 2009 contest.

Ninth Place for “Refraction” (poem) in OWFI’s 2009 Contest

Fourth Place for “How Can You Say Goodbye When You’ve Never Said Hello?” (short story) in OWFI’s 2009 contest.

Second Place for “Refraction” (poem) in Art Affair’s 2009 Contest

Honorable Mention for “Purgatory” (short story) in Art Affair’s 2009 Contest

Third Place for “All the Beauty You Can Hold” (poem) in Blue Mountain Arts 13th Contest

Third Place for “All the Beauty You Can Hold” (poem) in Art Affair’s 2008 contest

Honorable Mention for “Stitching Remnants” (poem) in Art Affair’s 2008 contest

Sixth Place for “A Life Apart from Normal” (inspirational essay) in OWFI’s 2008 contest

Sixth Place for “Silence” (poem) in OWFI’s 2008 contest

Seventh Place for “Steven’s Choice” (short story) in OWFI’s 2008 contest


Fourth Place for “Freedom” (short story) in OWFI’s 2008 contest

First Place for HER ONLY HOPE (novel) in OWFI’s 2008 contest

Second Place for “Stuffing and Broken Thread” (story) in Art Affair’s 2007 contest

Third Place for “Turning Away from Copernicus” Poem)in Art Affair’s 2007 contest

Honorable Mention for “Uninvited” (poem) in Art Affair’s 2006 Wrting Contest

Honorable Mention for “Emancipation” (poem” in Art Affair’s 2006 Writing Contest

First Place for “The Sweetest Song” (poem) in Wizard’s of Words 2006 contest

Honorable Mention for “Thanksgiving” (poem) in Byline’s Poetry about Loss 2005 Competition

Second Honorable Mention for “Harbor” (poem) in the Kansas Writer’s Association 2005 contest

Third Place for “Architect” (poem) in OWFI’s 2005 contest

Sixth Place for SILENT SCREAM (screenplay) in OWFI’s 2005 contest

Fifth Place for OCTOBER BREEZES (novel) in OWFI’s 2005 contest

Third Place for “Autopsy” (poem) in Prose Ax’s second Annual contest

First Place for “Bone House” (poem) in Art Affairs 2004 contest

Ninth Place for “Lexi” (short story) in OWFI’s 2004 contest

First Place for When Angels Cry (screenplay) in OWFI’s 2003 contest

First Place for “Debtor’s Prison” (poem) in OWFI’s 2003 contest

Fifth Place for HER ONLY HOPE (novel) in OWFI’s 2003 contest

Second Place for “Food Chain” (poem) in OWFI’s 2002 contest

Second Place for “Grounded” (short story) in OWFI’s 2002 contest

Sixth Place for “Ashes” (short story) in OWFI’s 2002 contest

Second Place for “Miracles” (inspiration essay) in OWFI’s 2001 contest

Fifth Place for WHEN ANGELS CRY (screenplay) in OWFI’s 2001 contest

Fifth Place for “Bone House” (poem) in OWFI’s 2001 contest

Second Place for “The Hanging Tree” (short story) in OWFI’s 2000 contest

Fourth Place for “Waiting for Houdini” (short story) in OWFI’s 2000 contest

Fifth Place for “Swimming in Annie’s Heart” (short story) in OWFI’s 2000 contest

Sixth Place for RISING TIDES (novel) in OWFI’s 2000 contest

Honorable Mention for “The Sweetest Song” in The Poet’s Page 1999 Poetry Contest

First Place for “Waiting for Houdini” (short story) in

Professional & Amateur Writer’s 1999 Contest

Second Place for “Waiting for Houdini” (short story) in Cameron University’s 1999 writing contest

Second Place for A SLEEP OF YEARS (novel) in OWFI’s 1999 contest

First Place for “The Sweetest Song” (Poem) in OWFI’s 1999 contest

Finalist for THE RIVER (NOVEL) in the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers’ 1998 contest

Honorable mention for NEW LIFE INCORPORATED (novel) In the Professional & Amateur Writers Society’s 1998 contest

Honorable Mention for “Stolen” (poem) in the Professional & Amateur Writers Society’s 1998 contest

Second Place for THE RIVER (NOVEL) IN THE Panhandle Professional Writer’s “Frontiers in Writing” Contest

First Honorable Mention for NEW LIFE INCORPORATED (NOVEL) in the Panhandle Professional Writer’s “Frontier’s In Writing”       contest

Second Place for “Purgatory” (short story) in OWFI’s 1998 contest

Fourth Place for “Anathema” (poem) in OWFI’s 1998 contest

Fifth Place for LOVING SIERRA (novel) in OWFI’s 1998 contest

Sixth Place for “Strands of Mermaid Hair” (fantasy short story) in OWFI’s 1998 contest

First Place for “Vacancy” (poem) in the CSWI’s 1998 contest

Fourth Place for “Wax” (poem) in the CSWI’s 1998 contest

Fifth Place for THE RIVER in the CSWI’s 1998 contest

First Place for “The Authority of the Undertoad in John Irving’s The World According to Garp” (essay) in Cameron University’s 1998 creative writing contest

Third place for “Dust” (poem) in Cameron University’s 1998 creative writing contest.

First Place for NEW LIFE INCORPORATED (novel) in the Houston Writer’s League 1998 contest

First Place for “Wreckage” (poem) in Cameron University’s 1997 creative writing contest

Honorable mention for THE RIVER (novel) in the Professional & Amateur Writers Society 1997 contest