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Publications

    Anthologies (Editor)

    Books

The Glaze from Breaking.

  • Exeter, England: Stride Publications, 2005. ISBN 1-905024-00-2. 78 pages. Out of print.
  • Nashville, TN: Upper Rubber Boot Books, 2011. ISBN 978-1-937794-11-8 (epub); ISBN 978-1-937794-09-5 (mobi); ISBN 978-1-937794-10-1 (pdf). Out of print.

    Short Fiction

    Microfiction

    Poems

  • “Patina of a Well-Rained Street.” Petrichor/Pebbles, forthcoming 2025.
  • “The Rainy Season” and “The World Ocean.” Blood & Bourbon, forthcoming 2025.
  • “Interplanetary War,” “Junkyard,” and scifaiku/scifisenyru “after hot decades,” “after the war,” “April sun,” “autumn mayhem,” “autumn storm,” “black gap between stars,” “cry lotus blossom,” “even with the time-turner,” “floating on still pond,” “hum of engines,” “in the ship window,” “june headlights,” “just as supplies dwindle,” “one advantage of vacuum,” “rain on the window,” “re-animation,” “repairing artificial magnetosphere,” “the chemical fog,” “the robots rebel,” “the zeppelin” and “toward a better future.” Featured poet. Cedar Rapids, IA: Scifaikuest, August 2025 print edition (forthcoming). ISSN 1558-9730.
  • “Throwing Signs” and “Tighten to Bruise.” Pictura Journal, forthcoming April 2025.
  • “your roughshod hair.” Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal, forthcoming April 2025.
  • “planting the for-sale sign.” Kingfisher Journal, #11, forthcoming April 2025.
  • “spring day.” Modern Haiku, issue 56.1 (Winter/Spring 2025).
  • “parking lot.” Haikuniverse, 5 December 2024.
  • “the dust.” Cold Moon Journal, 2 December 2024.
  • “the moon attracts.” Shadow Pond Journal, Issue IV, and online 30 November 2024.
  • “August surf.” Under the Basho, 21 November 2024.
  • “Deaths on Other Planets.” Halifax, NS: Hal-Con Zine (Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia/Hal-Con Sci-Fi & Fantasy Convention joint publication), November 2024.
  • “Heatwave” with Roger Dutcher. Strange Horizons, 19 August 2019. (podcast)
  • “Another Year” with Roger Dutcher. STAR*LINE, 40.1, Winter 2017, p. 11.
  • “Thirteen Scifaiku for Blackbirds.” StarShipSofa: The Audio Science Fiction Magazine, Feb 17, 2016.
  • “Footprints Drying on the Stairs.” Poet Showcase: an anthology of New Hampshire poets, Hobblebush Books, 2015, p. 40.
  • “Interference Patterns” with Kendall Evans. STAR*LINE 37.2, Spring 2014, p. 29.
  • “Deaths on Other Planets” and “Presque Vu.” Language Lessons: Vol. 1. Chet Weise and Ben Swank, Editors. Nashville, TN: Third Man Books, 2014, pp 188-189. ISBN 978-0-9913361-0-4.
  • “An Argument Against Brussels Sprouts” and “Salvation.” Nashville, TN: 2nd & Church, Issue 4: 2014, p. 11.
  • “Cured of Skies.” Beloit, WI: The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Fall 2013, No. 9.3, p. 25.
  • “Larix laracina Anaphora.” The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume VI: Tennessee. Jesse Graves, William Wright, and Paul Ruffin, eds. Huntsville, TX, USA: Texas Review Press, 2013, p. 170. ISBN-13: 978-1-937875-45-9.
  • “Auto Biographies,” winner of the July 2012 Goodreads Poetry Contest, 30 June 2012.
  • “Whose Tongue is the Wind’s Tongue?” Cordite Poetry Review. Electronica issue (Vol.36), 1 December 2011. ISSN 1328-2107.
  • “Getting Wet from Head to Toe” and “Underfoot on Barrington Street.” St. John’s, NL, Canada: Riddle Fence #10. Fall 2011. pp. 26-27. ISSN 1913-7265.
  • “Settler’s Song.” StarShipSofa, 19 October 2011, No. 208, at 1:19:25.
  • “loon calls over the water.” Four and Twenty: Short Form Poetry. August 2011, Volume 4, Issue 8, p.14.
  • “Bumblebee.” The Furnace Review. Summer 2011.
  • “robot dreams.” microcosms. 10 July 2011.
  • “robots at the park.” microcosms. 10 July 2011.
  • “the moon’s astonished.” microcosms. 10 July 2011.
  • “dandelion cracked sidewalk.” escarp. 8 July 2011.
  • “Love in the Time of Alien Invasion” and “Tender Aliens.” Beloit, WI: The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Spring 2011, Volume 9, No. 1. pp.20-23.
  • “The Butterfly Factory.” Knoxville, TN: Stirring, Volume 13, Edition 5, May 2011.
  • “Bluebeard.” Chizine, Volume 47, Week 5, May 2 – May 8, 2011.
  • “Rex Sestina.” Knoxville, TN: Stirring, Vol.13, #4, April 2011.
  • “Summer in Tennessee.” Four and Twenty: Short Form Poetry, March 2011, Volume 4, Issue 3, p.23.
  • “autumn morning,” “lazy Sunday,” and “warm heater.” Cheyenne, WY: Cherry Blossom Review, 18 January 2011.
  • “Nature Show.” Four and Twenty: Short Form Poetry, 18 January 2011.
  • “dusk epiphany.” escarp, 12 January 2011.
  • “An Argument in Favor of Snow.” Every Day Poets, 23 December 2010.
  • “The Grave Marker.” The Best of Every Day Poets One. Camille Gooderham Campbell, ed. December 2010. p.71.
  • “autumn visit.” Cedar Rapids, IA: Scifaikuest, November 2010 print edition. ISSN 1558-9730. p.5.
  • “Votive.” Cedar Rapids, IA: Aoife’s Kiss: A Magazine of SF/F/H, September 2010, p.42. ISSN 1558-9749.
  • “The Casualty Notification Officer” and “Everything that Divides.” Prick of the Spindle, Vol. 4.3, September 2010.
  • “Improving on Nature.” Strange Horizons, 6 September 2010.
  • “Kroger Koan.” Four and Twenty: Short Form Poetry, July 2010, Volume 3, Issue 7, p.15.
  • “evening commute.” microcosms, 8 July 2010.
  • “winter surprise.” microcosms, 24 June 2010.
  • “dandelion sun.” Japan: The Mainichi Daily News, 19 June, 2010.
  • “Terzanelle for Dominion Beach.” Ypsilanti, MI: Third Wednesday, Volume 2, Issue 2, Spring 2010, p.21. ISSN 1937-7506.
  • “Rabbits on the whole are reluctant to read poetry,” comprised of: “Ah Inflorescence,” “Anniversary,” “Magic Rabbits,” and “The Year in Review.” Exeter, UK: Stride Magazine, 27 April 2010.
  • “leonids.” microcosms, 21 April 2010.
  • “alien tourists.” microcosms, 1 April 2010.
  • “Rex Sestina.” West Kirby, Wirral, UK: Orbis Quarterly International Literary Journal, Issue 150, Winter/Spring 2010, pp.70-71. ISSN 0300-4425.
  • “winter downpour.” Cedar Rapids, IA: Scifaikuest. February 2010 print edition.
  • “casino lights.” tinywords, Issue 9.1, 24 February 2010.
  • “Back of the Drawer.” Four and Twenty: Short Form Poetry, Four and Twenty of the Week, 23 February 2010.
  • “The Family Culicidae” and “The Need for a Secure Airway.” Four and Twenty: Short Form Poetry, February 2010.
  • “A Kind of Honey.” Alba, #20, January 2010.
  • “Werepenguin.” The 2009 Dwarf Stars Anthology: The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Short Poetry of 2008. Deborah P Kolodji and Stephen M. Wilson, eds. Covina, CA: Science Fiction Poetry Association, 2010. p.9. (No ISBN.)
  • “The Butterfly Factory,” “Charon’s Midlife Crisis” and “The Gesture Almost Happening.” Oakland, CA: 42 Magazine, Summer 2009.
  • “Thirteen Scifaiku for Blackbirds.” Strange Horizons, 12 October 2009.
  • “Self-Sufficiency.” My Poem Rocks, 6 July 2009.
  • “Cicadas.” Oakland, CA: 42 Magazine, Spring 2009.
  • “Thaw.” Amaze: The Cinquain Journal, Spring 2009 (Volume 7, No. 1).
  • “The Hum of Mosquitoes.” Tails from Poetic Oceans, 15 April 2009.
  • “The Grave Marker.” Every Day Poets, 9 April 2009.
  • “Northern Lights.” Astropoetica, Spring 2009.
  • “The Hotel.” Riddle Fence, Winter 2009, Issue #3, p.55.
  • “Eligibility for Citizenship,” “The Trendelenburg Position” and “We’ll Call Them Martyrs.” Clockwise Cat, Issue 13, March 2009.
  • “The Hitch in Yr Getalong.” My Poem Rocks, 22 March 2009.
  • “Evolution.” Mise En Poem, 22 March 2009.
  • “Hiccups.” My Poem Rocks, 22 February 2009.
  • “matter and anti-matter.” Cedar Rapids, IA: Scifaikuest, February 2009 online edition.
  • “afternoon heat.” Cedar Rapids, IA: Scifaikuest, February 2009 print edition, p.10. ISSN 1558-9730.
  • “Cunt,” “Deaths on Other Planets,” “Guest Room,” “North Shore, Lake Superior” and “Throwing Signs.” Concelebratory Shoehorn Review, 1 February 2009.
  • “Crack the Whip Prohibited.” My Poem Rocks, 19 January 2009.
  • “Homing Instincts.” Alba, Issue #18, December 2008.
  • “Angels We Have Heard On High.” Big Toe Review, December 2008.
  • “winter wind through.” Roadrunner Haiku Journal, November 2008 Issue VIII:4.
  • “travel to old age,” “the moon’s astonished,” “sunsail opens wide” and “the planet’s end is here.” Nashville, TN: Poetry, Literature and Libraries, Things Japanese in Tennessee, Version 3.0, Japan-America Society of Tennessee (JASTN). Produced by Duthie Learning. September 2008.
  • “Larix laricina Anaphora.” Alba, #17, June 2008.
  • “Variations on Pablo Neruda.” Umbrella: A Journal of Poetry and Kindred Prose, Summer 2008.
  • “Bodies Make Poor Lenses” and “Vertigo.” Astropoetica, Volume 6.2, Spring 2008. ISSN 1559-6052.
  • “Deaths on Other Planets.” New York, NY: Asimov’s Science Fiction. Vol. 32, Nos. 4 & 5 (Whole Nos. 387 & 388), April/May 2008, p.237. ISSN 1065-2698. Winner of the Asimov’s Readers’ Awards for Best Poem of 2008. (Phrases from “Deaths on Other Planets” have been added to F.J. Bergmann’s Fully Automatic Plot Generator.)
  • “Werepenguin.” Strange Horizons, 10 March 2008.
  • “Venusian Girls Are Better.” Coyote Wild, January 2008 Vol 2 Issue 1.
  • “The Aviary.” Chizine, Issue #35, January – March 2008.
  • “Calendar of Dreams” (corrected version; originally published issue 182). Richmond, VA and Leeds, UK: Stand Magazine, Volume 7(4) 2007, Issue 184, pp.73-74. ISSN 0038-9366.
  • “Glorybower,” “The Ghost Road” and “Long Weekend.” Concelebratory Shoehorn Review, September 1, 2007.
  • “Footprints Drying on the Stairs.” New Hampshire Poet Showcase, From NH Poet Laureate, Pat Fargnoli.
  • “Spring in Rutherford County.” Tuscaloosa, AL: Dreams and Nightmares, No.77, p.8. ISSN 0897-0238.
  • “Charon’s Midlife Crisis.” Beloit, WI: The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Vol. 8, No. 1, Spring 2007, p.18. ISSN 8755-8785.
  • “Calendar of Dreams” and “The Villain In The Piece.” Richmond, VA and Leeds, UK: Stand Magazine, Volume 7(2) 2007, Issue 182, pp.56-57. ISSN 0038-9366.
  • “Last Will and Testament.” Chizine, Issue 31, January-March 2007.
  • “The Undead in Hospital.” Alba, #14, January 2007.
  • “Personal.” Big Toe Review, Summer 2006.
  • “Evenings at Brownlow Park” and “Public Gardens.” Alba, #13, July 2006.
  • “The Bather.” Strange Horizons, 3 July 2006.
  • “Cherries for Buttons.” Strange Horizons, 27 February 2006.
  • “Muffler Men Revisited.” andwerve, February 2006.
  • “Auto Biographies,” “God Bless This Twenty Dollar Bill,” “The King’s Ransom,” “The Kiss,” “Mirror Points,” “Old Sailors Become Seagulls,” “Snorkeling,” “Throwing Signs” and “What Sharp Teeth You Have.” The Allotment: New Lyric Poets. Andy Brown, ed. Devon, UK: Stride Books, 2006. pp.105-113. ISBN 190502407X.
  • “Re Member Ies.” flashquake: an online journal of flash literature, Fall 2005.
  • “Sister, I’m Telling You,” “Waiting to Happen” and “We’re Still Girls.” Beloit, WI: The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Vol.7, No.3, Autumn 2005, pp.2-4.
  • “The Greening.” Strange Horizons, 17 October 2005.
  • “Wrinkles.” Salon.com, in “The body beat goes on,” August 23, 2005.
  • “Everyman” and “Muffler Men and Uniroyal Girls.” Big Toe Review, July 2005.
  • “Settler’s Song.” Strange Horizons, 25 July 2005.
  • “The Translator.” Ultraverse E-Zine of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Vol. 2, No. 5, July 2005.
  • “First Contact.” Strange Horizons, 13 June 2005.
  • “The Rabbit in the Mirror” and “Vertigo.” Maquette Magazine, March 2005.
  • “The Rainy Season.” Strange Horizons, 21 March 2005. First Place winner of their 2005 Readers’ Choice Awards for Poetry.
  • “Surface Properties.” Strange Horizons, 31 January 2005.
  • “5 a.m. on the Northwest Arm.” To Find Us: Words and Images of Halifax. Edited by Sue MacLeod. Halifax, NS: Halifax Regional Municipality, 2005. p. 16. ISBN 0-9687262-3-2.
  • “Mirror Points.” Best of Strange Horizons 2. Kelli Carlson, ed. Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2004. ISBN 1590210379.
  • “Guest Room.” Vancouver, BC: Room of One’s Own, Vol. 27, No. 2. ISSN 0316-1609.
  • “Here.” Antigonish, NS: The Antigonish Review, No. 135, Autumn 2003, p.106. ISSN 003-5662.
  • “Cunt.” Montreal, QC: Vallum, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2003, p.17. ISSN 1496-5178.
  • “With Every Step.” Sydney, NS: Pottersfield Portfolio, Vol. 22, No. 3, Winter/Spring 2003, p.55. ISSN 0226-0840.
  • “No Words.” Strange Horizons, 3 February 2003.
  • “Backroads,” “Eight Ways To Think About Happiness,” “Home,” “Re Member Ies” and “Remains.” Reactions 4: New Poetry. Esther Morgan, ed. Norfolk, UK: University of East Anglia, School of English and American Studies, Pen & Inc Press, 2003. pp.141-144. ISBN 1-902913-18-3.
  • “Mirror Points.” Strange Horizons, 23 December 2002.
  • “Silverfish Poem.” Calgary, AB: Prairie Journal, Issue 38, 2002, p.12. ISSN 0827-2921.
  • “Silence.” Wirral, UK: Orbis Quarterly Literary International Journal, No. 122, August 2002, p.59. ISSN 0300-4425.
  • “Auto Biographies” and “Personal.” Fredericton, NB: The Fiddlehead, No. 212, Summer 2002, pp.82-83. ISSN 015-0630.
  • “Variations on Pablo Neruda.” Antigonish, NS: The Antigonish Review, No. 129, Spring 2002, p.81. ISSN 003-5662.
  • “Remains.” Calgary, AB: Dandelion, Vol. 27, No. 2, 2002. ISSN 0383-9575.
  • “How to Speak with a Silent Body.” White Wall Review, 2001.
  • “What Sharp Teeth You Have.” Kingston, ON: Quarry, Vol. 46, No. 3, Summer 2001, pp.26-28. ISSN 0033-5266.
  • “Crow Allegro.” Winnipeg, MB: Contemporary Verse 2, Vol. 23, No. 3, Winter 2001, p.26. ISSN 0831-9502.
  • “Nemesis.” San Francisco, CA: Prosodia: The New College of California Poetics Journal, Vol. X, 2001, pp.66-67. ISSN 1524-5365.
  • “Traveler’s Anecdote,” “Home” and “Vertigo.” Church Point, NS: Feux chalins: Littératures des Maritimes, No. 5, 2000, pp.47-49. ISSN 1201-6020.
  • “love letters.” New Westminster, BC: Event, Vol. 29, No 2, Summer 2000, p.28. ISSN 0315-03770.
  • “The Angel of Pathology” and “5 a.m. on the coast.” Antigonish, NS: The Antigonish Review, No. 121, Spring 2000, pp.79-80. ISSN 0003-5661.
  • “When he used mother as a swear word you should have known.” Vancouver, BC: Canadian Literature, No. 164, Spring 2000, p. 80. ISSN 0008-4360.
  • “Three Flying Dreams and One Love Story,” “The Gallery” and “Archaeology.” Truro, NS: The Amethyst Review, Vol. 7, No. 2, Winter 1999, pp.52-54. ISSN 1192-2478.
  • “Things that Happened in My Absence.” Sydney, NS: Pottersfield Portfolio, Vol. 19, No. 3, Summer 1999, p.45. ISSN 0226-0840.
  • “Crow Allegro.” Ottawa, ON: Litwit Review, Spring 1999, p.8. ISSN 1488-1918.
  • “Weight Loss.” Calgary, AB: Dandelion, Vol. 25, No. 2, 1999, p.147. ISSN 0383-9575.
  • “Vignette from Quebec Major Juniors.” Ice: new writing on hockey. Dale Jacobs, ed. Edmonton, AB: Spotted Cow Press, 1999. pp.31-32. ISBN 0-9694665-4-4.
  • “The Angel between the Sheets.” Regina, SK: Grain, Vol. 26, No. 1, Summer 1998, p.49. ISSN 0315-7423.
  • “How to Write a Canadian Poem.” Truro, NS: The Amethyst Review, Vol. 5, No. 2, Winter 1997, pp.23-24. ISSN 1192-2478.
  • “Eight Ways to Think About Happiness” and “North Shore, Lake Superior.” Antigonish, NS: The Antigonish Review, No. 113, Spring 1998, pp.143-144. ISSN 0003-5661.
  • “Enough” and “The Tongue is Nothing.” Church Point, NS: Feux chalins: Littératures des Maritimes, No. 2, 1996, pp.28,74-75. ISSN 1201-6020.

    Non-fiction, Interviews & Other Materials

  • “Gorgeous but Not Florid,” interview on Prospectus: A Literary Offering blog, 24 July 2020.
  • “SHELFIES: Joanne Merriam of Upper Rubber Boot.” Bill Kieffer, Underground Book Reviews, 15 May 2017.
  • “More Than Medicine in Malindi, Kenya.” Mass Eye & Ear Global Surgery and Health blog, 19 January 2017.
  • “More Than Medicine in Kampala and Kijabe, Kenya.” Mass Eye & Ear Global Surgery and Health blog, 7 November 2016.
  • “Joanne Merriam: Publisher, Upper Rubber Boot Books.” Loren Kleinman (blog), 28 July 2013.
  • “‘Literary’ Poetry.” Locus Online Roundtable, 4 June 2012.
  • “Flash Interview: Uniquely Crafting the Craft, a Few Writing Questions for Joanne Merriam.” Flash Fiction, 21 May 2012.
  • “Report from the Field – e-publisher Joanne Merriam.” Eastword, the newsletter of the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia, March/April 2012, p.19.
  • “Got Your Back Door.” The Raging Face, January 28, 2008.
  • “Got Your Back Door.” Sydney, NS: Pottersfield Portfolio (Vol. 23, No. 2, Winter/Spring 2004) pp. 81 – 84. ISSN 0226-0840.
  • “Reading, ‘riting and ‘rithmatic.” Eastword, the bi-monthly newsletter of the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia, March/April 2003, pp. 5-6.
  • 2003 Nova Scotia Gambling Prevalence Study, uncredited editor, Addiction Services, Nova Scotia Department of Health, 2003.
  • “Complementary Elements: Élémental, paintings by Wayne Boucher and sculptures and masks by Claude Chaloux.” Visual Arts News: The Magazine of Visual Arts Nova Scotia (Vol. 25, No. 2, Summer 2002) pp. 20 – 21. ISSN 004-0512.
  • “Caught in the Web.” Bi-monthly column, Eastword, July/August 1998 to January/February 2002.
  • “Tips for Beginning Writers on Finding and Approaching a Publisher.” Eastword, the bi-monthly newsletter of the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia, November/December 1997.

    Scientific Publications

Landeen KC, Esianor B, Stevens MN, Fernando S, Merriam J, Kreth K, Whigham AS, Haynes D, Eavey R. Online Otolaryngology: A Comprehensive Model for Medical Student Engagement in the Virtual Era and Beyond. Ear Nose Throat J. 2023 Nov; 102(11): 739-741. doi: 10.1177/01455613211029748. Epub 2021 Jul 5. PMID: 34218707.

Photograph of potbelly seahorses appears in: Schmitt S. Care, Gender, and Survival: The Curious Case of the Seahorse. RCC Perspectives, 1, 83–90.

Appearances

  • Friday, October 30, 2020: Panelist, “Change Management: Never Waste a Good Crisis! How Vanderbilt Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery is connecting to our Residency and Fellowship Applicants” with Dr. David Haynes, moderator and panelists Brandon Esianor, Madelyn N. Stevens, Shanik Fernando, Kelly Landeen, Gaelyn Garrett, Amy Whigham, Rick Chandra, Elizabeth Perkins, and Kim Kreth. Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Micro MBA Leadership Training Program, Nashville, TN.
  • Thursday, 28 September 2017: Invited reader, with Dan Hoy and Sheree Renée Thomas. In-store reading celebrating the release of The Terraformers by Dan Hoy. Third Man Records Storefront, Nashville, TN.
  • Sunday, 26 March 2017: Panelist, Making & Breaking Gender Roles in SpecFic. MidSouthCon 35, Memphis, TN.
  • Sunday, 26 March 2017: Panelist, Publishing with Small Press. MidSouthCon 35, Memphis, TN.
  • Saturday, 25 March 2017: Moderator, Write What You Don’t Know. MidSouthCon 35, Memphis, TN.
  • Saturday, 25 March 2017: Pro Row. MidSouthCon 35, Memphis, TN.
  • Sunday, 20 March 2016: Panelist, The Bard Lives! MidSouthCon 34, Memphis, TN.
  • Sunday, 20 March 2016: Panelist, Do I Really Need An Editor? MidSouthCon 34, Memphis, TN.
  • Saturday, 19 March 2016: Pro Row. MidSouthCon 34, Memphis, TN.
  • Saturday, 19 March 2016: Panelist, The Pitch. MidSouthCon 34, Memphis, TN.
  • Friday, 18 March 2016: Panelist, Dystopias, Zombies, and Apocalypses. MidSouthCon 34, Memphis, TN.
  • Saturday, 20 June 2015: Panelist, Finding & Querying a Publisher. Hypericon, Nashville, TN.
  • Friday, 19 June 2015: Panelist, Defining Genres in Speculative Fiction. Hypericon, Nashville, TN.
  • Sunday, 22 March 2015: Panelist, Fire Up Your Fiction with Inciting Events. MidSouthCon, Memphis, TN.
  • Saturday, 21 March 2015: Pro Row. MidSouthCon, Memphis, TN.
  • Saturday, 21 March 2015: Panelist, Finding your Voice. MidSouthCon, Memphis, TN.
  • Friday, 20 March 2015: Panelist, Creating Platform. MidSouthCon, Memphis, TN.
  • Friday, 20 March 2015: Moderator, Aliens and The Others. MidSouthCon, Memphis, TN.
  • Sunday, 15 June 2014. Panelist, Small Press and Indie Publishing Panel. Hypericon, Nashville, TN.
  • Saturday, 14 June 2014. Participant, Authors Roundtable. Hypericon, Nashville, TN.
  • Saturday, 1 June 2013. Introductions (as publisher) for Chet Weise, Tessa Mellas and Maggie Smith reading from Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days, Conference Center, Main Library First Floor, Nashville Main Public Library, 615 Church Street, Nashville, TN.
  • Saturday, 1 June 2013. Introductions (as publisher) for Chet Weise, Tessa Mellas and Maggie Smith reading from Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days, East Side Story, 1108 Woodland Street, Unit B, Nashville, TN.
  • Thursday, 7 March 2013. AWP Release Party (as publisher) for Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days, McGreevy’s Pub, Boston, MA.
  • Saturday, 24 March 2012. Featured with Mary Alexandra Agner (The Scientific Method; The Doors of the Body) and Peg Duthie (Measured Extravagance), Science, Sonnets, and Speculation, West Reading Room, Main Branch, Nashville Public Library, 615 Church Street, Nashville, TN 37219.
  • Saturday, 6 March 2010. Panel discussion and fiction and poetry readings. 2010: A Space Oddity, Shelby Hall, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL.
  • Friday, 11 May 2007. Featured poet, followed by an open mic. The Poets Corner, Unitarian Universalist Church, White Wing School Chapel, 58 Lowell St, Nashua, NH.
  • Friday, 16 September 2005. Featured reader, preceded by a reading by fiction writer Aronne McCoy and followed by an open mic. Linebaugh Public Library, 105 West Vine Street, Murfreesboro, TN.

Awards & Honours

  • Featured poet, Scifaikuest August 2025 print edition.
  • Honourable Mention, Imaginarium 2013: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing, for “The Candy Aisle.”
  • “Auto Biographies,” Winner of the July 2012 Goodreads Poetry Contest, 30 June 2012.
  • Nominee, for “Love in the Time of Alien Invasion,” 2012 Rhysling Poetry Award in the short poem category.
  • Nominee, for “Tender Aliens,” 2012 Rhysling Poetry Award in the long poem category.
  • Winner of the 10-10-10 Poetry Contest, an online readers’ choice-type award, with “Hamiltons.”
  • Nominated for the 2009 Dwarf Stars Award and included in The 2009 Dwarf Stars Anthology: The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Short Poetry of 2008 with “Werepenguin.”
  • Winner, “Deaths on Other Planets,” Asimov’s Science Fiction‘s Readers’ Awards for Best Poem of 2008.
  • First Place winner, “The Rainy Season,” Strange Horizons 2005 Readers’ Choice Awards for Poetry.
  • Third Place winner, “Walking Hibernation,” Strange Horizons 2004 Readers’ Choice Awards for Fiction.

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