Literary

I write to live, not to earn a living. For twenty years, I’ve taught writing to earn a living and help others live.

Select Writings

This Brideshead Revisited “fix it” fanfiction is the first work of fiction I’ve attempted in thirty years. The first chapter is published to AO3; additional chapters are being written or edited.

Boilo and Belonging: A Northern Appalachian Christmas Tradition

This creative nonfiction essay was written for and published by 100 Days in Appalachia during Christmas 2020.

Becoming Catholic: Story, Sacrament, Conversion, and the Emergence of Faith in Postconciliar Autobiographies

My 2011 M.A. Thesis, this research work is appropriately dense. While I’d make some stylistic changes, I stand by its core tenets.