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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 ...
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: ...
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 ...
Ghost Fists
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
Ghosts animate the stories and essays of this collection in ways both
bodied and disembodied—as loops, as refrains, as stories that can’t be outrun.
Moving across time and space to consider collective memory in Cambodia, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Creep City and Five Short Stories
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
This collection includes one novella and five short stories, focused on young women
and their formative experiences. These stories explore themes of sexuality, latent violence,
changing technology and weird feelings. ...
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 ...