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Picture This
(2022)
Picture This is a collection of short stories featuring a series of strong female protagonists wrestling with questions of identity and belonging. This collection seeks to explore the tension between faith and doubt, illusion and reality, hope...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Feel Better Soon: Collected Short Stories
(2021)
The stories in this collection were written from 2018-2021. They are fictional works designed to explore what happens when the mundane meets the extraordinary. Though the characters and their situations are works of the ...
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 ...
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: ...
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 ...
Family traditions
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-01-20)
Family Traditions tells the story of young adults who have grown up as Wiccans. Because Wicca remains a new and small religion, the vast majority of its followers converted from Christianity or other faiths, and the number ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Assembling the Fragments: A Collection of Essays
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2015)
Grief and grieving hovers around this essay collection, both the author's grief over
losing her mother and also what that loss meant to the other people in her life. An essay
about the tragic death of the author's uncle- ...
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 ...