Memoir All Screwed Up won 2009-2010 Emerging Writers’ Fellowship from The Writer’s Center in Maryland.
Poetry manuscript Blind Date with Cavafy won Third Annual Marsh Hawk Poetry Prize, judged by Denise Duhamel and won the 2008 Thom Gunn Gay Male Poetry Award.
Creative Non-Fiction from Northwest Review shortlisted for 2003 Best American Non-Required Reading, edited by Dave Eggers.
The Weary World Rejoices, (forthcoming October 2011)
Blind Date with Cavafy, Marsh Hawk Press, February 2007 Winner of the 2006 Marsh Hawk Poetry Prize, judged by Denise Duhamel Reviewed favorably by Atlanta-Journal Constitution, Art Voice, Quarterly West, Mid-American Review, Salt Lake City Weekly, Luna Winner of the 2008 Thom Gunn Award in Gay Male Poetry
BOOKS OF CREATIVE NON-FICTION
All Screwed Up, Benu Press, 2009, Winner of the 2008 Benu Press Creative Non-Fiction Social Justice and Equity Award, judged by Peggy Schumaker
Reviewed favorably by The East Bay Area Reporte, Lambda Literary Reviewr
CREATIVE NON-FICTION
“You’ve Got to Read This,” Mississippi Review (on-line), Fall 2009
“Field Trip,” Santa Clara Review, Spring/Summer 2006
“On Friendship and the Ethics of Contemporary Poetry Criticism,” Western Humanities Review, Spring 2006
“A Safe Haven,” The Sun, January 2006
“Are You There, Judy? It’s Me Steve,” Quarterly West, Winter 2005
“Gratitude,” Mid-American Review, Fall 2004
“Untouchable,” nidus, Fall 2004
“Bringing Back the Dead,” turnrow, Summer 2004
“The Quarry,” “Champions,” The Sun, May 2004
“Bowling,” Brevity, Spring 2004
“Prom,” “The Hypnotist,” “Siskel and Ebert,” “Church,” Alaska Quarterly Review, Fall-Winter 2003
“Umbilical Cords,” “First Murder Attempt, “Plastic Halloween Costumes,” “Dirty Harry,” “Second Murder Attempt,” “Suicide Note,” “Self-Pity,” “A Little Retarded, A Little Gay,” Puerto del Sol, Spring 2003
“Hipless Lew the Meterreader,” “The Gay-Bashing,” Another Chicago Magazine, Number 42
“High School Reunion,” “Cruising with Mother,” Cimarron Review, Spring 2003
“Desperate for Attention,” North American Review, November-December 2002, Vol. 287, No.6
“The Pulitzer,” “My Dad, The Bum,” “Truth or Dare,” “Greek Mafia Connections,” “Bill Collection Agency,” Northwest Review, XXX-2, 2002
“Ten Anecdotes about the Destruction of Books,” Mid-American Review, Vol. 22, No. 1 “Inspiration,” Painted Bride Quarterly, Autumn 2001
“On Gay Chatrooms, Teaching College, and Good Grammar,” Cimarron Review, Summer 2001
“On Love, Sex, and Thom Gunn,” Another Chicago Magazine, Number 38
POETRY
“Think of a Knock as Something Other than Simple, Useless, Etiquette,” Barn Owl Review, 2009
“Ode to Agorphobia,” “I’m Working on a script now for Jerry Bruckheimer,” OCHO, 2009
“Upon Imagining the Field Where Matthew Shepard Was Murdered, “Ode to Matthew Shepard,” “Ode to My Lover,” “Ode to Judy Shepard,,” “Shoelaces,” No Tell Motel, 2008
“I Get My Politics from the Flinstones,” Tar River Poetry, 2007
“I Am Known as Walt Whitman,’ Triquarterly, 2007
“Russia is big and so is China,” Triquarterly, 2007
“Do Tell,” Green Mountains Review, 2007
“Ode to Crystal Meth,” Web del Sol, Spring 2007
“Fun,” Cimarron Review, Fall 2006
“Synesthesia,” Cimarron Review, Fall 2006
“I Hate You, Too, Catullus,” 32 Poems, Winter 2005
“The Ghost of Joice Heth on the Truth and the Trees,” American Letters and Commentary, 2005
“Homosexuality is Not a Theme,” Barrow Street, Summer 2004
“Self-Portrait,” Spork, Summer 2004
“Blind Date with Cavafy,” Berkeley Poetry Review, Issue 33, 2001
“Clearing the Air,” Berkeley Poetry Review, Issue 33, 2001
“After Watching George Romero’s ‘The Night of the Living Dead,’” Bottomfish, 1999
“The Sterility of Love,” Flyway Literary Review, Winter 1998-1999
“Upon Discussing Whether We Should Condescend to Sci-Fi Writers,” Mid-American Review, Fall 1998
“Miss La La,” Mid-American Review, Fall 1998
COLLABORATIVE WORK
“Doctor’s Note” and “Secret Ingredients” with Phil E. Young, Sugarhouse Review, 2010
SHORT STORY
“We’re Pregnant,” Fall 2007
PLAYS
“Eva C.,” Full Production, University of Utah’s Lab Theatre, Feb. 27-Mar.2, 2003 Funded by the University of Utah’s theatre department
Reviewed in the Feb. 27 issue of Red Magazine, a weekly alternative arts periodical
“Eva C.,” Staged Reading, Salt Lake Acting Company, May 2, 2002
Academic Positions
Professor of Creative Writing, SUNY Brockport, Brockport, New York, Fall 2018
Associate Professor of Creative Writing, SUNY Brockport, Brockport, New York, Fall 2010
Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, SUNY Brockport, Brockport, New York, Fall 2004