Short Stories
“Sorrow Corner,” a speculative short story published in The Missouri Review, Summer 2023 issue.
Winner of A Pushcart Prize and available in the Pushcart Prize Anthology 2025
Novellas
Nude, A Novella provided for the Gemma Open Door Foundation for Adult Literacy, 2012
Albert Butler wished once to be an artist, but scandal destroyed his life. Now old and sick, he takes us back through his troubled childhood, England’s blitz, and two passionate and destructive affairs. We see his life as an autobiography of nudes. Returning to his former London haunts, he confronts old friends who have never forgiven him his sins, and after making his confession to a defrocked priest, sets out on a journey along the Thames that will bring him to the final and naked truth about himself.
The Writer, a novella, The Gettysburg Review, Autumn 1995
Winner of The Gettysburg Review Fiction Award for the Best Story of 1995
Benjamin, a novella, The Gettysburg Review, Autumn 1993
Winner of The Gettysburg Review Fiction Award for the Best Story of 1993
Nonfiction
“A Lift of Its Own.” Craft essay in The Writer’s Chronicle Magazine, February 2026
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“Vagabond Saints,” an essay in The Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 2025
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“Respecting Mystery,” an essay in QU literary Magazine, Summer 2023
My Poet, Poetry Magazine, July/August 2007
A Field Guide to Poetry Readings, Poetry June/July 2004
Interviews, selection
Naeem Murr 