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Books

Poetry collections:

  • Strange Wisdoms of the Dead, Wildside Press, 2005 (contents) (back cover) (blurbs) (dedication)
  • Disturbing Muses, Prime Books, 2005 (contents) (blurb) (review)
  • Petting the Time Shark and Other Poems, DNA Publications, 2003 (contents) (blurbs) (reviews)
  • Defacing the Moon and Other Poems, DNA Publications, 2000 (contents) (blurbs) (reviews)

    As editor:

  • MYTHIC, Mythic Delirium Books (contents) (review)

    As editor, with Roger Dutcher:

  • The Alchemy of Stars: Rhysling Award Winners Showcase, Science Fiction Poetry Association, 2005 (contents)

    As editor, with Bud Webster:

  • The Science Fiction Poetry Handbook by Suzette Haden Elgin, Sam's Dot Publishing, 2005 (contents)

    As editor, with Anita Allen:

  • The Lexicographer's Love Song and Other Poems by Ian Watson, DNA Publications, 2001 (contents) (reviews)
  • New Dominions: Fantasy Stories by Virginia Writers, Allen & Allen Productions, 1995 (contents) (reviews)


    Stories

  • The Music of Bremen Farm, Cabinet des Fées, Vol. 1, Issue 1, 2006
  • And then a millstone came along..., Cabinat des Fées, Online Issue 2, 2006
  • An Invitation Via E-mail, Weird Tales (forthcoming)
  • Strange Wisdoms of the Dead (with Charles M. Saplak), H.P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror, Vol. 1, Issue 3, Summer 2005 (forthcoming)
  • Dee-Dee and the Dumpy Dancers (with Ian Watson), Interzone, Issue 197, March/April 2005 (reviews)
  • A Ghost of Christmas Future, The Roanoke Times, Dec. 25, 2004
  • One Shoe Left, Macabre, Issue 3, 2004 (review)
  • Humpty, Flesh & Blood, Issue 9, 2002
  • Stolen Souls, Altair, Issue 3, Feb. 1999 (review)
  • Let There Be Darkness, Penny Dreadful, Issue 6, Winter 1998; The Bible of Hell, 2001
  • That Which Devours, White Knuckles, Issue 8, Summer 1998
  • Ancient Taboos, New Dominions, 1995
  • The Girl or the Goddess?, The Fractal, Issue 4, Spring 1995
  • A Cannibal's Cornucopia, Heliocentric Net, Vol. 3, Issue 4, Autumn 1994


    Articles

  • Interview: Jane Yolen, Strange Horizons, Nov. 14, 2005
  • Speculative Poetry: A Symposium (Part One) (with Matt Cheney, Alan DeNiro and Theodora Goss), Strange Horizons, May 2, 2005
  • Speculative Poetry: A Symposium (Part Two) (with Matt Cheney, Alan DeNiro and Theodora Goss), Strange Horizons, May 9, 2005
  • Found Poetry, Horror Writer's Association Newsletter, Vol. 16 Issue 56, March 2005
  • Strange Harvest, Illumen, Vol. 1, Issue 1, Autumn 2004


    Poems

    Anthology appearances:

    The 2006 Rhysling Anthology, Science Fiction Poetry Association

  • The Strip Search [from Strange Horizons, Oct. 3, 2005]
  • TimeFlood (with Ian Watson) [from Asimov's Science Fiction, Vol. 29, No. 2, Feb. 2005]
  • Chagall's Lamp [from Strange Horizons, March 7, 2005]
  • Picasso's Rapture [from Strange Horizons, June 6, 2005]
  • Thanomorphosis (with W. Gregory Stewart) [from The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Vol. 7, No. 3, Autumn 2005]
  • Rattlebox (with David C. Kopaska-Merkel) [from Strange Horizons, May 30, 2005 ]

    Change, Not One of Us, 2006

  • Tithonus, on the Shore of Ocean

    The Alchemy of Stars: Rhysling Award Winners Showcase, Science Fiction Poetry Association

  • Epochs in Exile: A Fantasy Trilogy (with Charles M. Saplak) [from Eotu Ezine, Feb. 2002]

    The 2005 Rhysling Anthology (hardcover edition) Prime Books

  • The Asteroid Painter [from Dreams and Nightmares, Issue 67, June 2004]
  • The Best of All Probable Worlds [from Dreams and Nightmares, Issue 66, March 2004]
  • The Night Watchman Dreams His Rounds at the REM Sleep Factory [from Dreams and Nightmares, Issue 69, Dec. 2004]
  • Strange Cargo [from Strange Horizons, Dec. 3, 2004]

    Wondrous Web Worlds, Vol. 5, Sam's Dot Publishing

  • The Visitor [from Aoife's Kiss (online version) June 2004]

    The 2005 Rhysling Anthology, Science Fiction Poetry Association

  • The Asteroid Painter [from Dreams and Nightmares, Issue 67, June 2004]
  • The Best of All Probable Worlds [from Dreams and Nightmares, Issue 66, March 2004]
  • The Night Watchman Dreams His Rounds at the REM Sleep Factory [from Dreams and Nightmares, Issue 69, Dec. 2004]
  • Strange Cargo [from Strange Horizons, Dec. 3, 2004]

    Nebula Awards Showcase 2005, Jack Dann, Ed., Roc, 2005

  • Epochs in Exile: A Fantasy Trilogy (with Charles M. Saplak) [from Eotu Ezine, Feb. 2002]

    Epitaphs, Padwolf Publishing, 2004

  • Mother [from Epitaph, Issue 3, 1997]

    The 2004 Rhysling Anthology, Science Fiction Poetry Association

  • Death of the Father [from Petting the Time Shark, 2003]
  • How I Will Outwit the Time Thieves, [from Strange Horizons, Dec. 2003]

    The 2003 Rhysling Anthology, Science Fiction Poetry Association

  • Epochs in Exile: A Fantasy Trilogy (with Charles M. Saplak) [from Eotu Ezine, Feb. 2002]
  • A Ghost Story [from Weird Tales, Issue 327, Spring 2002]
  • A Million Layers Removed [from Tales of the Unanticipated, Issue 23, April 2002-April 2003]

    The Best of Dreams of Decadence, Roc, 2003

  • The Romantic Age [from Dreams of Decadence, Issue 2, Spring/Summer 1996]

    The 2002 Rhysling Anthology, Science Fiction Poetry Association

  • And All Dust Part of the Dreamer (with Charles M. Saplak) [from Dreams & Nightmares, Issue 60, Sept. 2001]
  • Saturn Devours His Children [from Star*Line, Vol. 24, Issue 2, March/April 2001]

    The 2001 Rhysling Anthology, Science Fiction Poetry Association

  • Planeta do Favela [from Defacing the Moon, 2000]

    The Bible of Hell, Pendragonian Publications, 2001

  • His True Epitaph [from Penny Dreadful, Issue 6, Winter 1998]
  • The Box, Descending [from Penny Dreadful, Issue 11, Autumn 1999]
  • Prophecy: a fragment [from Heliocentric Net, Vol. 4, Issue 1, Winter 1995]

    The 1998 Rhysling Anthology, Science Fiction Poetry Association

  • Gears [from Space & Time, Issue 87, Summer 1997]

    Stigmata, Heliocentric Net/BAST Media, 1997

  • L'arbre des larves

    Revelations, Malevolence Publications, 1996

  • At the End


    Poems

    Magazine appearances:

    Absolute Magnitude

  • Waiting for the Tow, Issue 13, Spring 2000

    Abyss & Apex

  • Black Holes Hold Their Breath
  • the telePath Co. soothes a user, Issue 6, Nov./Dec. 2003

    Albedo One

  • Seventy Times Seven (with Ian Watson) Issue 27, May 2003

    Altair

  • Assembling Zembla, Issue 5, Feb. 2000

    Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine

  • bananotech Issue 19, June/July 2005

    Aoife's Kiss

  • spiderkiss, Dec. 2005 (print version)
  • Catching Shadows, Sept. 2004 (on-line version)
  • Moon's Gold, Sept. 2004 (print version)
  • Snuffing the Dragon, June 2004 (print version)
  • The Visitor, June 2004 (on-line version)

    Asimov's Science Fiction

  • Cosmic Ego, Vol. 29, No. 11, Dec. 2005
  • TimeFlood (with Ian Watson), Vol. 29, No. 2, Feb. 2005

    Astropoetica

  • Watching the Pot, Vol. 3, Issue 1, Winter 2005

    Between Kisses

  • Appendage, Vol. 2, No. 4, April 2004
  • Rolling to the Bottom, Vol. 3, No. 1, June 2004

    Curbside Review

  • Ceilidh, March 2003
  • Jars, Aug. 2002

    Creatio Ex Nihilo

  • Salsa For Microchips: A Monologue, Vol. 1, No. 7, Aug. 1997

    Dreams and Nightmares

  • Klee's Garden (forthcoming)
  • The Night Watchman Dreams His Rounds at the REM Sleep Factory, Issue 69, Dec. 2004
  • The Asteroid Painter, Issue 67, June 2004
  • The Windows Breathe, Issue 67, June 2004
  • The Best of All Probable Worlds, Issue 66, March 2004
  • The Thing in the Gutter, Issue 64, Jan. 2003 (review)
  • No One, Issue 62, May 2002
  • And All Dust Part of the Dreamer (with Charles M. Saplak), Issue 60, Sept. 2001
  • Poe as Minimalist, Issue 45, Aug. 1995

    Dreams of Decadence

  • Bloodspell: A Sestina (with Anita Allen) (forthcoming)
  • Questions, Issue 15, Autumn 2001
  • Poe's Last Kiss, Issue 8, Spring 1999
  • Epilogue: The Roses, Issue 8, Spring 1999
  • Dark Descent, Issue 6, Spring 1998
  • Mist, Issue 6, Spring 1998
  • In London, the Hunters, Issue 6, Spring 1998
  • Shelley, at the End, Issue 4, Summer 1997
  • Truly Cursed, Issue 4, Summer 1997
  • Sundown, Issue 2, Spring/Summer 1996
  • Summoned, Issue 2, Spring/Summer 1996
  • The Visit, Issue 2, Spring/Summer 1996
  • Kinship, Issue 2, Spring/Summer 1996
  • The Romantic Age, Issue 2, Spring/Summer 1996

    Eotu Ezine

  • Inc., Dec. 2003
  • Midnight Rendezvous, Boston, June 2003
  • guerrillavid inc., Feb. 2003
  • Epochs in Exile: A Fantasy Trilogy (with Charles M. Saplak), Feb. 2002

    Epitaph

  • Mother, Issue 3, 1997

    The Fractal

  • Billion-Year Half-Life, Issue 4, Spring 1995

    frisson

  • Host, Issue 11, Autumn 1998
  • high strung, Issue 9, Spring 1998
  • mise en scène, Issue 7, Autumn 1997
  • Calico of Pain, Issue 5, Spring 1997
  • Walls and Whispers, Issue 3, Autumn 1996

    Goblin Fruit

  • Sisyphus Walks, Issue 1, April 2006 (audio)

    H.P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror

  • The Shadow Train (forthcoming)
  • Bags (forthcoming)
  • The Nightmare Avatar's Nightmare (with Christina Sng) (forthcoming)
  • Ghosts in the Machine, Vol. 1, Issue 2, Spring 2005
  • Zombie Luck, Vol. 1, Issue 2, Spring 2005

    Heliocentric Net

  • Plague, Vol. 5, Issue 1, Annual 1996
  • In a Past Life, I am a Warlock's Severed Head, Vol. 4, Issue 3, Summer 1995
  • Prophecy: a fragment, Vol. 4, Issue 1, Winter 1995

    Illumen

  • Wealth Without Flesh, Vol.2, Issue 1, Autumn 2005
  • RetroVirus, Vol.1, Issue 2, Spring 2005
  • Messages, Vol. 1, Issue 1, Autumn 2004 2004
  • Propitiating Cthulhu (with Ian Watson), Vol. 1, Issue 1, Autumn 2004

    Jabberwocky

  • Tanguy's Pebble (forthcoming)
  • The Psychic Above Burritoville, Issue 2, 2006
  • The Clairvoyant, Between Dark and Dream, Issue 1, 2005

    Lone Star Stories

  • Practical Zombies, Issue 14, April 1, 2006

    Macabre

  • They Cut Down the Unseelie Tree, Issue 3, 2004
  • The Interview, Issue 2, May 2003
  • In a Past Life, I Am a Warlock's Severed Head, Issue 1, Oct. 2002
  • Downtown, Noon, Issue 1, Oct. 2002

    The Magazine of Speculative Poetry

  • Thanomorphosis (with W. Gregory Stewart), Vol. 7, No. 3, Autumn 2005
  • Funeral Pie, Vol. 5, Issue 3, Spring 2002

    Malevolence

  • At the Oasis, Issue 7, Winter 1998
  • Patricide, Issue 7, Winter 1998
  • I Watched a Movie, Issue 4, Winter 1997
  • Behind Glass, Issue 4, Winter 1997
  • Third Shift at the Plasteel Spider Factory, Issue 3, Aug. 1996
  • The Interview, Issue 3, Aug. 1996

    Not One of Us

  • Aranea (with Sonya Taaffe), Issue 34, Sept. 2005
  • The Eyewish Station, Issue 34, Sept. 2005

    Outer Darkness

  • Shadows' Solstice, Issue 9, Autumn 1996

    The Pedestal Magazine

  • Miró's Mirror, Issue 24, Nov. 2004

    Penny Dreadful

  • The Box, Descending, Issue 11, Autumn 1999
  • Beneath the Tiles, Issue 9, Winter 1999
  • An Evening Stroll, Issue 7, Midsummer 1998
  • Perfect Bound, Issue 7, Midsummer 1998
  • His True Epitaph, Issue 6, Winter 1998
  • Lessons, Issue 6, Winter 1998

    Penumbric

  • Godbody (with Christina Sng), Vol. 3, Issue 1, June 2004

    Pirate Writings

  • Enigmus Rex, Vol. 5, No. 4, Issue 16, 1998
  • Vision, Vol. 4, No. 3, Issue 11, 1996

    Santa Clara Review

  • Morse Code, Vol. 92 No. 2, Spring/Summer 2005

    Scavenger's Newsletter

  • Mars Rock Scat, Issue 167, Jan. 1998
  • Defacing the Moon, Issue 160, June 1997
  • Watching the Pot, Issue 157, March 1997

    Science Fiction Poetry Review

  • Angel and Ogre, April 2002
  • Ogren Crossing, April 2002
  • Dreamshore, April 2002

    Space & Time

  • The Unseelie Tree, Issue 99, Spring 2005
  • Three Meditations, Issue 90, Fall 1999
  • Gears, Issue 87, Summer 1997

    Star*Line

  • The Terrible Beauty of a Severed Neck, Vol 28, Issue 5, Sept./Oct. 2005
  • desolvation, Vol 28, Issue 4, July/Aug. 2005
  • The Elders, Vol 28, Issue 2, March/April 2005
  • Asunder (with Christina Sng), Vol 28, Issue 1, Jan./Feb. 2005
  • The Night Gardeners, Vol 28, Issue 1, Jan./Feb. 2005
  • Escher's Bed, Vol 27, Issue 2, March/April 2004
  • Transformations (with Christina Sng), Vol 27, Issue 1, Jan./Feb. 2004
  • Columbia, Vol 26, Issue 2, March/April 2003
  • Apotheosis, Vol 26, Issue 2, March/April 2003
  • A Curtain of Stars, Vol. 25, Issue 5, Sept./Oct. 2002
  • Inverted Universe (with Ian Watson), Vol. 25, Issue 1, Jan./Feb. 2002
  • Saturn Devours His Children, Vol. 24, Issue 2, March/April 2001

    Strange Horizons

  • lis pendens (forthcoming)
  • The Journey to Kailash, Jan. 23, 2006
  • The Strip Search, Oct. 3, 2005
  • Picasso's Rapture, June 6, 2005
  • Rattlebox (with David C. Kopaska-Merkel), May 30, 2005
  • Chagall's Lamp, March 7, 2005
  • Strange Cargo, Dec. 3, 2004
  • Space War, June 14, 2004
  • How I Will Outwit the Time Thieves, Dec. 22, 2003
  • Pulse, Sept. 22, 2003
  • Mrs. Rigsby's Fatecast, Sept. 1, 2003
  • Metarebellion, Nov. 4, 2002
  • Seventh Coming (with Ian Watson), Oct. 14, 2002

    The Sword Review

  • Lunar Harems (forthcoming)

    Talebones

  • Secret Infernos, Issue 31, Winter 2005
  • The End of the Affair, Issue 25, Fall 2002
  • Disaster at the BrainBankTM ATM, Issue 13, Fall 1998
  • Munchausen vs. the Aliens, Issue 11, Spring 1998

    Tales of the Unanticipated

  • The Captive Pleads With the Memory Carver, Issue 26, Oct. 2005-July 2006
  • Everything in Its Place, Issue 25, Aug. 2004-July 2005
  • Petting the Time Shark, Issue 23, April 2002-April 2003
  • A Million Layers Removed, Issue 23, April 2002-April 2003
  • Ectoppliances, Issue 21, April 2000-April 2001
  • Starpunk, Issue 20, Aug. 1999-April 2000
  • Incident at Infinity's Border (with Charles M. Saplak), Issue 20, Aug. 1999-April 2000
  • Cyberspace Singularity, Issue 19, Aug. 1998-July 1999
  • On the Brink of Hyperspace, Issue 18, Fall/Winter/Spring 1997/1998
  • Phase Shift, Issue 17, Winter/Spring/Summer 1997
  • Moment, Issue 16, Spring/Summer/Fall 1996
  • Momentum, Issue 16, Spring/Summer/Fall 1996

    Transversions

  • Sojourn on Barsoom, Issue 10, 1999

    Weird Tales

  • Template for a Fairy Tale (with Charles M. Saplak) (forthcoming)
  • Bizarremost Bazaar, Issue 333, Sept./Oct. 2003
  • A Ghost Story, Issue 327, Spring 2002

    Wicked Hollow

  • Music Lesions (A Duet), Issue 9, Nov. 2005