Writing and interviews

Books

Spark Bird (co-authored with Jonathan Koven and Julian Shendelman) – Thirty West Publishing House

After being fired from Saint Pluvia’s most powerful tech company, Simón, a burned-out experimental musician, falls into a catatonic depression. When his old friend, Chanda, convinces him to join a bird-watching club, Simón discovers a world of hidden waveforms within bird songs. His quest to understand the phenomenon plummets him into an existential mystery of ecological mayhem, an untrustworthy chemistry teacher, an accidental pigeon rehabilitator, and dangerous passion projects. Equal parts reflective and satirical, Spark Bird is a dreamlike saga of intergenerational trauma, the fine line between support and enmeshment, and the rewards and risks of creative obsession.

Short Stories

Artifacts – Reservoir Road Literary Review (Nominated for Pushcart Prize, Nominated for Best of the Net)

The Golden Light that Keeps Us Alive – Rejection Letters

Clutch and Lure – Gone Lawn

Flash Fiction

I Am Cast Into the Multiverse (collab with Terri Linn Davis) – MoonPark Review

Guest opinion: We must take action regarding the [REDACTED] High School janitor – Body Fluids Lit (Brave New Weird award winner 2024; Anthologized in Brave New Weird Volume Two from Tenebrous Press)

Hypersleep – MoonPark Review

Rescue Animal – Ligeia Magazine (Nominated for Pushcart Prize)

He Loved Techno – Pithead Chapel

Rifle – CLOVES Literary (Nominated for Best of the Net, Nominated for Best Microfiction)

Earth Problems – Rejection Letters

The Bloody Pulse of the World – Body Fluids Lit

Pink Lemonade – Miniskirt Magazine

Simulation – Sledgehammer Lit

Retro Denim Vest for Dogs (2 out of 5 stars) – The Daily Drunk

Everything Is Going to Be Okay – Brilliant Flash Fiction

Letter to a robot vacuum manufacturer – Body Fluids Lit

Poetry

Some things I’ve hidden in my skull and eventually lost in the darkness of it – HAD

In dreams, my dog speaks to me as a daughter – Rejection Letters

Interviews and other stuff

Meet the BRAVE NEW WEIRD-o’s: Daniel DeRock – Tenebrous Press

Short Story Today podcast – Interview and reading of “Artifacts”

Too Lit to Quit podcast – “Finding Your Way Back to Writing” (guest)

MEGABYTES Zine (contributing guest editor) – Final Girl Bulletin Board / The Daily Drunk

What Draws Us to Certain Classic Texts Over Others? (Interview) – Literary Hub

Late Greats (Reading of “Blue and Green” by Virginia Woolfe) – Micro Podcast

(As interviewer) An Interview with Author Elle Nash – Fatal Flaw

Those Who Scream: A Novel by 30 Writers (chapter of a collaborative novel) – Thirty West Publishing House