Poetry & Nonfiction
POETRY
"Once," Honoration Mention, Dark Poets Prize IV, January 2026
Three Haiku, International EJCA Haiku Competition Anthology, July 2024
“And We Bloom” Honorable Mention, Arlington Moving Words Contest, January 2024
"When" 1st Place, Blue Mountain Arts Poetry Contest, 2021
"Waiting" - Noir Riot, November 2014
"Hidden Dance" - Noir Riot, November 2014
"Green Tide" - The New Poets: Yes
Haiku Finalist - Midwest Poetry Review
Triolet Finalist - Midwest Poetry Review
"Night Heat" - International Poetry Forum
"May 1st, 1986" - Pauses in Time
"Because I’ve Tasted Sky" - Impressions
"Winds of Grace" - Impressions
"Deity" - In Quiet Places
"Oh for the Sound of a Well-Sung Life" - In Quiet Places
"Catharsis" - Moods & Mysteries
"The Fire That Burns Within" - National Poetry Anthology
ESSAYS AND NONFICTION
"Synchronicity," Waterman Fund Essay Contest Finalist, 2025
CAPTRS Essay Contest "AI-DrivenThreats", 2nd Place, December 2024
"You Want Your PIs Hard, Soft, or Medium-Boiled? (With a Side of Procedural)," Mystery Readers Journal, October 2019
Headlines Columnist, Prose 'n Cons Magazine, 2015-16
Bake, Love, Write: 105 Authors Share Dessert Recipes and Advice on Love and Writing
We'd Rather Be Writing: 88 Authors Share Timesaving Dinner Recipes and Other Tips
“Nature and the Writings Of Kerstin Lillemor Ekman,” Mystery Readers Journal
“The Mysteries of Math,” Mystery Readers Journal
“Mormons in Mystery Fiction,” Mystery Readers Journal
"KA-TAP Ensemble," Washington Times
"Muir String Quartet," Washington Times
"Music Manuscripts in Baltimore," Washington Times
"Tracking the Underground Railroad," Washington Times
"Finding a Way to Adventure by Getting Lost," Washington Times
"Unearthing the Past," Washington Times
"Forgotten Fortresses," Washington Times
"Sowing the Seeds of Spring," Washington Times
"Arts Funding", Sunday Journal
"Flora Gil Jacobs, Active Times
"Fred Calland," Washington Times
"On Doll Houses and Toy Stores," Insight on the News
"The Craft of Making Apples Appealing," Washington Times
"Carriages," Antique Week
"The Center for the Americas," Q Magazine
"Operas for a Song," Q Magazine
"If It Ain't Baroque," Q Magazine
"There's a Song in My (Rogers and) Hart," Q Magazine
"The Musings of a Conductor," Q Magazine
"Jazz Times Two," Q Magazine