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Mississippi People
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
Mississippi people is a collection of short stories and essays written during the
course of my three years at UMKC. The characters within, even the one's that aren't from
Mississippi themselves, all have a bit of ...
The shepherd of the hills
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012)
One spring day, an elderly man from the city, Daniel
Howitt, enters the Ozark Mountains, ostensibly on a vacation
to improve his health, which has suffered due to events
concerning his believed long-dead son, Howard, ...
Pro-Black Prosody
(2020)
This thesis speaks to the triumphs and tragedies of the Black experience. It attempts to look at Blackness through the lens of my combined experiences as a spoken word artist, a student in the University of Missouri-Kansas ...
Falsetto With Sour Cherries
(2013)
In this master thesis, the candidate presents her collection of
original poems, accompanied by a critical introduction, which
explains her writing and revision process. In the critical
introduction, careful attention ...
The House that Grief Built
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
This book-length collection of poetry weaves together themes of family, religion,
food, gardening, and grief as experienced by the author and her relatives. Through the
eyes of a first-generation American (on her mother’s ...
Navigation errors
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
Navigation Errors is a collection of personal essays that explore the ideas of religious
fundamentalism, humanity’s place in—and relation to—nature, physical and mental
challenge, paradigm shifts, and the mistakes that ...
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 ...
Twelve dead jackrabbits : stories & poems
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-06-18)
This collection of short fiction and poetry aims to stand as witness to the struggles
of navigating through personal histories and society. The Jackrabbit Series is the
celebration of one woman's life who finds herself ...
The Brain is an Iceberg
(2012)
The stories in this collection focus on utilizing formal experimentation in order to illuminate the struggles of characters. For example, the title story focuses a couple that enters a photo booth and leaves with a doomed ...
Ozark Superstitions: A Collection
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
This collection of linked short stories explores the storytelling traditions of a
family that continues to deal with the results of a past trauma in their day-to-day lives.
The three members of the Taile family struggle ...
Behind the Mask
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2017)
This book explores the struggles of one woman living in London during an outbreak
of the bubonic plague. Charles, as she has named herself, has to not only maintain her
masculine guise, but also has to fight to cure ...
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 ...
Rabid and Other Stories
(2022)
Rabid and Other Stories is a collection of short prose set in small-town Missouri exploring wealth inequality, family relationships, and toxic masculinity through the lens of rural America. The characters in these thirteen ...
The Nonstory and Other Stories
(2022)
The following is a selection of my writing from 2018 to present. I consider the work I have completed during my years at UMKC to be a series of experiments in the short fiction form, and I believe that this thesis is a ...
Opus Ignotum
(2022)
“Vocibus concide,” Ennius commanded, in the single line of an otherwise lost work preserved in Varro’s De lingua latina: “With words destroy him.” Not even Ennius’ context did Varro record, only the imperative that an ...