Publications

Below, you can read a selection of my shorter work, including short fiction, creative nonfiction, academic essays, scholarship of teaching and learning, book reviews, interviews, introductions to anthologies and issues I edited, personal essays, reference work, print and radio journalism, and–of course–a manifesto.

Writing on a chalkboard reads "The last immigrant is in captivity the galaxy is at piece" on the cover of Apogee issue 9.

The Intimate Register

Apogee

Cited as a “Notable” essay of the year in Best American Essays 2019

“Zoo Bronx, Baby Cat” in Tahoma Literary Review, Issue 2 (Winter 2014)

Nominated for a Pushcart Prize

A line of stock figures in various colors and gender figurations. Male, female, and trans gender symbols outline their heads.

Fixed by Camel

The Millions

The Regular

Wordgathering

The logo of the journal Wordgathering, the journals name in black letters against a lime green background.
Four cinder blocks hold down a transparent, baloon-like circle of plastic. Light shines down on it in a room that has gray and black walls.

Here to Right Literature: The Deaf Poets Society Manifesto

(collectively written by the editors)

Anomaly

(Image by Janet Morrow, DPS founding editor)

Selected introductions Prose and Ideas sections. I edited both for the first three issues of the The Deaf Poets Society, a digital journal of disability literature and art that I helped found.

A blue cover with a white box reading the title of the book, Disability Experiences.

On What’s That Pig Outdoors: A Memoir of Deafness by Henry Kisor

Disability Experiences: Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Other Personal Narratives. Thomas Couser and Susannah Mintz, eds. (Gale)

This book was a finalist for the Dartmouth Medal.

The Cancer Party

Disability Studies Quarterly

The logo of the journal Disability Studies Quarterly, a square with its letters D S Q all in blue. Underneath its full name is its tag line, "the first journal in the field of disability studies."
The logo of the book review Rain Taxi, with the journal's name in vertical letters running up the left side, and the phrase "25 years" on top of a stack of books.

On Michael Copperman’s Teacher

Rain Taxi Review of Books

Shim

Duende

The logo of the online journal Duende: A black capital D with the word DUENDE underneath it, all in a lime green circle.
A rainbow pattern of thinly outline bricks with a piece of metal in the bottom that reads SUPER.

“Hear No Evil”

Front Porch

The logo of the book review Rain Taxi, with the journal's name in vertical letters running up the left side, and the phrase "25 years" on top of a stack of books.

On Bronwyn Hruska’s Accelerated

Rain Taxi Review of Books

“Slowly Carving a Niche:” Notes on Reading a Poem for a Month.

InTransit: The LaGuardia Journal on Teaching and Learning. Michele Piso, ed. (CUNY Academic Works / LaGuardia Center for Teaching and Learning)

A plain white cover of In Transit: The LaGuardia Journal of Teaching and Learning, from Spring 2011

Honorary Toddler, an extended blog project about children’s books and the work of parenting that fed a neighborhood “Dads’ salon” attended by more than 30 local parents.

A flyer for an event called "Dads Night Out," featuring two local writers running a dialogue with neighborhood parents gender, books, and caring for very little kids while male.
The green cover of "What if Writing is Dreaming Together", which includes a black and white collage of frames, newsprint, old photos, and a sheet labelled "Fifty-One Questions".

What If Writing is Dreaming Together? Poetry and Prose from the NY Writers Coalition

Co-edited with John Maney, Jr.

(NY Writers Coalition Press)

News Spots

WFCR-Radio

Logo for New England Public Radio
Logo for The Sentinel Newspapers.

The Montgomery County (MD) Sentinel

Selected News Stories


You can find my print-only work in Southeast Review, little somethings, High Country News, Red Rock Review, Peeks & Valleys, Deaf Lit Extravaganza, Barking Sycamores (Autonomous Press), Eyes of Desire 2 (Handtype Press), Phoebe, and pariahs (Stephen F. Austin University Press).


But a few things, you won’t find anywhere. Raise a glass to The L Magazine and Late Night Library.