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How We Know Them
(2013)
This multi-genre collection—including fiction, flash fiction, and a play—explores
the roots of connection implied in familial relationships and structures. These works
question—sometimes stepping into the supernatural ...
Turning the doorknob: essays, stories, and poems
(2013)
This collection of essays, stories, and poems is a broad exploration in persona, genre, and
form. The individual human is complex, and this thesis embraces the complexity, even when
the selves presented here, fully factual ...
Tiger's Eye & Twine, with Sails in Flame: A Triptych
(2020)
This thesis is a triptych of poetic sequences on queer reckoning—queer as an identity, a community, and a strategy of engaging with the world. Progressing further into interiority as the triptych progresses, the poems first ...
No Gods, Only Suffering
(2020)
This short story collection follows one dysfunctional family’s dissolution across central and eastern Kansas. Set against the simultaneously blooming and sickened landscape of rural and college-town Kansas, the Wells family navigates familial love...
Shadows and light - a story collection
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-06-06)
We lie and we are lied to. Why then does it shock us when those around us are never what they seem, what they expose for judgment, rather than the whole of what they are. We each seek to assure those around us that we are ...
Art Monster: Stories and a Novella
(2014-08-27)
Monsters external and internal stalk the margins of the stories and novella that make up this collection. Though each selection engages in its own distinct exploration of the monstrous, the pieces hint at a shared question: ...
Unnamed Lands
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2013)
This collection of short fiction and plays represents an exploration of twenty-first century gay culture, viewed from the vantage point of successive lifestages: childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, maturity, and old ...
The Cherry Orchard
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
Similar to the namesake of this manuscript, Anton Chekhov’s play The Cherry
Orchard, the poems that make up this collection explore loss—loss of home, loss of
time, loss of loved ones, loss of self. Some of the poems ...
Wishful Thinking
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
The novel interrogated what it means to live in a midwestern college town while not
being in college. What it means to have stayed in one place long enough that everyone who
left has decided to come back. What it means ...
There is No Absolution for Us Here: An Anthology of Essays
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2015)
An anthology of creative nonfiction essays, this collection studies the inner workings of
the author at her most vulnerable: whether as a child unaware of her parents’ crumbling marriage
or as an adolescent struggling ...
Of oranges and the sea
(2013)
The stories in this collection explore family and friendships. They follow characters for whom the world is not always a perfect fit, fierce in its beauty and its sadness, characters whose best intentions too often fall ...
A geography of the heart
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-06-18)
This collection of short fiction and creative nonfiction explores how we navigate our most
intimate and challenging personal relationships, how we use art and writing to try to
understand and articulate the most ineffable ...
Praire Madness
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
Prairie Madness is a collection of fiction and non-fiction that examines the impact and power of loneliness, both lifelong and momentary. In some of this work, loneliness fuels acts of courage; in others it triggers denial ...
Poisons of war
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2017)
My father, a Vietnam veteran who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder,
took his life in November 1976, when I was only a year old. The nature of his death
kept the details of his life, his illness, and his ...
Life underwater
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)
This collection of short stories examines the different lives of people as they navigate
the strange and confusing nature of their daily lives. There is a particular focus on how the
monotonous can be equally as bizarre ...
Mother’s Little Helper: A Memoir in Vignettes
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
Mental illness debilitates the afflicted and impacts friends and family members.
The collage of scenes in this memoir reveal the ways family members developed
survival strategies and coping mechanisms to manic depression. ...
Ouroboros
(2019)
I find it boring to write about myself. I think this begins with the fact that I do not consider myself to be an inherently interesting person. This isn’t a bad thing. There is no right way. For those of us non-interesting ...
On Both Sides - A Novel
(2020)
On August 11 and 12, 2017, Charlottesville, Virginia was the site of a rally for Unite the Right, an Alt-Right (neo-Nazi) group. This group sought to further white nationalist ideals and to protest the proposed removal of ...