Books
Cajun South Brown Folk (Belle Point Press, Forthcoming)
Atchafalaya Darling: Stories (Belle Point Press, 2024)
Histories Of Memories (Belle Point Press, 2023)
The Muu-Antiques (Malarkey Books, 2023)
Tentacles Numbing (Thirty West Publishing House, 2022)
Cirrus Stratus (Spuyten Duyvil, 2022)
Spectacles (Word West, 2021)
Iron Oxide (Assure Press, 2021)
Pretend I Am Someone You Like (Livingston Press, 2018)
Mute (Tolsun Books, 2018)
Anklet And Other Stories (Golden Antelope Press, 2017)
The Seagull And The Urn (HarperCollins India, 2013)
i am here And You Are Gone (Winner of the 2010 OW Press Contest, Outsider Writers Press)
Fiction
“Tools For An Excavation,” Stoneboat Literary Journal (2024)
“Perhaps A Butterfly,” Isele Magazine (2024)
“Four Oranges,” Gooseberry Pie (2024)
“The Light Of The Voice,” Ghost Parachute (2024)
“Valet Parking,” Inkfish Magazine (2024)
“Wren Or Robin,” Call Me [Brackets] (2024)
“A Bit Of The Night,” Wensum Literary Magazine (2024)
“Monsoon Mosaic,” Lightning Strikes: An Anthology Of Flash Fiction By Fifty Indian Writers (Dhauli Books, 2024)
“A Familiar Frottoir,” Scrawl Place (2024)
“A Brief History Of Situation Comedies,” Bluestem (2023)
“A Shine Of The Tin,” Hex Literary (2023)
“A Menu For Tomorrow,” Roi Fainéant (2023)
“A Few Of Their Favorite Things (Novel Excerpt From The Muu-Antiques),” Scrawl Place (2023)
“By The Pond Back Home,” Poverty House (2023)
“Opelousas Electric,” Palooka (2023)
“Peanut Butter,” Gone Lawn (2023)
“Atchafalaya Darling,” Arkansas Review (Volume 53, Issue 1, 2022)
“Galileo’s World,” Jabberwock Review (43.1, 2022)
“The Rock And The River,” The Ex-Puritan (2022)
“Frog Creek Crow,” Belle Point (2022)
“A Vermilion Sad Song,” Louisiana Literature (39.1, 2022)
“The Song Of The Bark,” Vol. 1 Brooklyn (2022)
“Redfish,” Cowboy Jamboree (Fall, 2022)
“I’ll Never Know,” Trampset (2022)
“Cajundia,” Cold Signal (2022)
“Signs Of Communication,” Bright Flash Literary Review (2022)
“A Slight Tremor,” Complete Sentence (2022)
“A Lament For My Apparition,” Cloves Literary (2022)
“Dream Blizzard,” The Dillydoun Review (2022)
“Moon And Mantle,” The Bureau Dispatch (2022)
“Skulls Of Light,” MORIA (2021)
“Her Garden Her Earth,” Middle House Review (2021)
“A Brief Introduction To Memory,” Reservoir Road (2021)
“Pretty Day,” Flash Boulevard (2021)
“A Delicate Clef,” Flash Boulevard (2021)
“Fission And Fusion,” Flash Boulevard (2021)
“Days Of Sunlit Marigolds,” Flash Boulevard (2021)
“Solar Drifts,” Nurture (2021)
“Yonder Years Ago,” Fractured Lit (2021)
“A Catalytic Tilt,” Fractured Lit (2021)
“Such Velocity,” Fractured Lit (2021)
“A Distance Of Thunder,” Fractured Lit (2021)
“Photospheric Magnifications,” Crack The Spine (2020)
“m • a,” The Art Of Everyone (2020)
“Future Memories Of Love,” The Art Of Everyone (2020)
“Kinetic Electrons,” The Art Of Everyone (2020)
“Acorns Of Memories,” Truffle Literary Magazine (2020)
“Candles And Petals,” Bull (2020)
“Rickshaw Wrench And Spoke,” The Remnant Archive (2020)
“Remember Nothing,” New Sinews (2020)
“Like Hummingbirds,” X-R-A-Y (2020)
“$1000 To Lose,” (mac)ro(mic) (2020)
“Musica Universalis And The Pythagorean Love Song,” Terse (2020)
“Chapel Of Ghosts,” Tiny Molecules (2020)
“Gabriel García Márquez’s Notes From Mardi Gras,” McSweeney’s Internet Tendency (2019)
“Upon A Sunny Day At Noon,” Milk Candy Review (2019)
“Pancakes And Light,” Milk Candy Review (2019)
“The Learning Game,” Jellyfish Review (2019)
“Rush Hour,” Six Sentences (2018)
“The Laughing Hyena,” New Delta Review (2018)
“Invincible,” Lost Balloon (2018)
“Your First Friday Night At The Movies,” Bending Genres (2018)
“Samosa,” The Current Magazine (2017)
“The Bullies,” Necessary Fiction (2017)
“What Do You See When You Shave (Upon Sitting Next To A Stranger At The DMV),” Fiction Southeast (2016)
“Charcoal Oceans,” Big Lucks (2015)
“Sink,” Word Riot (2014)
“Years Ago Years Later,” Runaway Dish (Volume 3, 2014)
“The Last Sigh Of Bear,” Gingerbread House Literary Magazine (2014)
“Crawfish And A Drawing By Barn,” Deep South Magazine (2014)
“The Storm Was Coming,” Deep South Magazine (2014)
“Went The Bite,” Puerto Del Sol (Volume 48, Number 1, 2013)
“Sisters,” The &Now Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing (2013)
“Mud,” Uncanny Valley (Issue 0002, 2013)
“Gone Went The Rabbit,” Uncanny Valley (Issue 0002, 2013)
“Truck,” New Orleans Review (Issue 38.1, 2012)
“The Wandering Goat,” Redivider (2011)
“The sisters…” [ C. ] (Mud Luscious Press Stamp Stories Anthology, 2011)
“A Good Wash,” Wigleaf (2011)
“Pepper And The Sun,” NANO Fiction (2011)
“Tongue, Tongue, Tongue,” Rougarou (2011)
“The Good Dead Dog,” Rougarou (2011)
“Rodeo,” Rougarou (2011)
“Pecan,” Used Furniture Review (2011)
“The Book Of Plays,” Mad Hatters’ Review (2011)
“XXXXXXXXXXXX,” Deep South Magazine (2010)
“Quiche,” Lies/Isle (2010)
“The Passing Of Anna Louise,” Drunken Boat (2010)
“The Palate Of Argento Magenta The Painter,” Everyday Genius (2010)
“Star And Quack,” The Scrambler (2010)
“Gavin’s Proposal,” Stymie Magazine (2010)
“The Music Of Psychology And The Schizophrenic,” Splinter Generation (2010)
“Samosa,” The Ranfurly Review (2009)
“This Is My Head,” The Coachella Review (2009)
“At The Bus Stop,” H_NGM_N (2009)
“The Egg Famine And The Man In Love,” The Medulla Review (2009)
“Thieves,” Muscadine Lines (2009)
“In The Mornings,” Sein Und Werden (2009)
“Eight Hours Later,” The Dead Mule School Of Southern Literature (2009)
“Our Skin,” Willows Wept Review (2009)
“A Brief Encounter In The Museum,” Paperwall (2009)
“A Map Of The House,” Abjective (2009)
“Parlez-Vous,” Dogzplot (2009)
“Where Are You,” Bartleby Snopes (2009)
“Re: Query–J.Ped,” Word Riot (2008)
“Don’t Go To Sleep,” DiddleDog (2008)
“Tagore’s Kiss,” Two Hawks Quarterly (2008)
“The Boatman’s Home,” Café Irreal (2008)
“I Think,” The Meadow (2008)
“The Possible Events Of Yestermorrow, It May Have Happened, I Might Promise,” Shelf Life Magazine (Issue 2, 2008)
“Empty Chair,” Gertrude Press (2008)
“1-0,” Verdad Magazine (2007)
“Backyard,” The Meadow (2007)
“Backyard,” The Quiet Feather (2006)
“300 Rupees,” The Chickasaw Plum (2006)
Poetry
“A Louisiana Sestina,” New Verse Review (Forthcoming)
“A Kolkatan Uncle Duplex,” MoonLit Getaway (Forthcoming)
“Us Cajun South Brown Folk,” The Emerson Review (Volume 53, 2024)
“The Bed Of Spanish Lake,” Louisiana Literature (41.2, 2024)
“Seasons Of The Mind,” Louisiana Literature (41.2, 2024)
“Abecedarian For The Sacred Roux,” Dust Poetry Magazine (2024)
“Mist Over Meadow,” Poetry South (Forthcoming)
“Bayou Bengali Recipe,” Poetry South (Forthcoming)
“Louisiana Longitudes And Latitudes,” Where Meadows (2024)
“The Corner Table Of The World,” Where Meadows (2024)
“Mullet Memories,” Stanchion (Issue 17, 2024)
“Descendants” Porch Literary Magazine (2024)
“Dhoti Blaze,” LEON Literary Review (Forthcoming)
“Twirling Dandelions,” Stone Circle Review (2024)
“A Rabbit Under The Sun,” The Chakkar (2024)
“Kolkata Crawfish Claws,” The Chakkar (2024)
“Two Dinner Tables,” The Chakkar (2024)
“Only The Cow Knew,” Susurrus (2024)
“Down Smede Road,” Susurrus (2024)
“The Lost Saris Of Crawfish Season,” The Eunoia Review (2024)
“An Evening Like Dawn Ghazal,” Victory Flamingo Magazine (Forthcoming)
“Chandelier Palaces,” Wasteland Review (2024)
“Tiresias Up The Bayou,” Wasteland Review (2024)
“Plastic Rivers,” Centaur (2024)
“An Ocean Between Markets,” Prose Poems (Issue 4, 2024)
“Acadiana Rickshaws,” Prose Poems (Issue 4, 2024)
“Soft Marble Dirt,” Night Heron Barks (2023)
“Soaked In Lightning,” Trampoline (Issue 20, 2023)
“Mel’s Diner,” Red Ogre Review (2023)
“A Day Dripped Day,” Cicada (2023)
“Ladders,” South Broadway Ghost Society (2023)
“The Dance of the Wayfarer,” IceFloe (2022)
“Just A Bit,” The Burning Hearth (2021)
“A Slight Resonance And Reflection,” Claw & Blossom (2021)
“Morning Raga,” Journal Of Expressive Writing (2021)
“Wild Wild Wild,” Clover & White (2020)
“Maddened Skies,” Mineral (2020)
“The Magnus Effect,” Stymie (2020)
“We Walk Away Like Nothing,” Emerge Literary Journal (2020)
“River Streams,” Emerge Literary Journal (2020)
“Wander Throughout,” Parentheses Journal (2020)
“Know No Better,” Citron Review (2020)
“Bones,” Citron Review (2020)
“The Only Way We Know,” Cypress: A Poetry Journal (2020)
“Except For The Laughing Mouse,” Trouvaille Review (2020)
“Path Of The Petals,” Atlas And Alice (2020)
“The Eroding Iron Of Memories Replenished,” The McNeese Review: Boudin Online (2020)
“Harnessed Above The Earth,” Menacing Hedge (2019)
“The Rabbit’s Entrance,” Menacing Hedge (2019)
“The Circus Crazy,” The Little White Poetry Journal (2009)
“The Pond Does Not Ripple,” Poetic Voices Without Borders 2
(Anthology, Gival Press, 2009)
“To Take Away,” Magma Poetry (Issue 36, 2006)
Nonfiction
“Playlist For Atchafalaya Darling,” Largehearted Boy (2024)
“Notable Books Read In 2024,” Heavy Feather Review (Forthcoming, 2024)
“Chasing Royalty,” Wig-Wag (2024)
“Eat Life And Hunger,” Teach. Write. (Forthcoming, 2025)
“Running Through My Head,” Cable Street (2024)
“Thanksgiving Pizza,” Cable Street (2024)
“So Happy,” Stereo Stories (2024)
“Spectrums Of A Universe,” Fiery Scribe Review (2024)
“Kolkata Chameleon,” The Hooghly Review (2024)
“A Friend In Muu,” The Malarker (2023)
“In The Shadow Of A Bird,” Janus Literary (2023)
“Say Hi,” Reckon Review (2022)
“Poets On Craft,” Cultural Daily (2022)
“It Goes Like This,” Ligeia (2022)
“Harmonic Oscillations,” Twin Pies Literary Magazine (2022)
“An Echo Full Of Thunder: An Introduction To Kate Chopin’s The Storm,” Scratch (2022)
“A Sound Of Dew,” Chaotic Merge (2022)
“Golden Fields,” JMWW (2021)
“A Vague Recollection From 111 Liberty Avenue,” Scrawl Place (2021)
“A Kolkata Dream,” New World Writing (2021)
“Excerpts From My Memory,” Schuylkill Valley Journal (2021)
“Listen To Track #10,” HAD (2021)
“When Once I Was Gone,” Semicolon Literary Magazine (2020)
“Elliott Smith,” The Big Other (Drawings, 2019)
“Molly Gaudry’s Desire: A Haunting,” Necessary Fiction (2019)
“Shelfie Series: On Trips to Barnes & Noble, Books of Wizardry, and the Joy of Rediscovery,” The Coil Magazine (2018)
“A Story Behind The Stories: On Writing Anklet & Other Stories,” Deep South Magazine (2017)
“Lies Full Of Truths: Rob Roberge’s Liar,” The Lit Pub (2016)
“I Want To See The Music Of Your Dreams,” The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review (2015)
“On The Giving Tree,” Drawn from Memory: Reflections on the Art of Illustration (2014)
“Brian Allen Carr’s Vampire Conditions,” American Book Review (2013)
“Edna,” Letters With Character (2010)
“No, I Won’t Go Out With You,” Shelf Life Magazine (Issue 4, 2008)
Anthologies
“Mel’s Diner,” Why Did The Ogre Cross The Road? (Red Ogre Review Books, 2024)
“The Palate Of Argento Magenta The Painter,” Flash Fusion: An Anthology Of Flash Fiction And Conversations On Craft With Writers Of South Asian Heritage (Dahlia Books, 2024)
“Fission And Fusion,” Flash Fusion: An Anthology Of Flash Fiction And Conversations On Craft With Writers Of South Asian Heritage (Dahlia Books, 2024)
“Acorns Of Memories,” Flash Fusion: An Anthology Of Flash Fiction And Conversations On Craft With Writers Of South Asian Heritage (Dahlia Books, 2024)
“Monsoon Mosaic,” Lightning Strikes: An Anthology Of Flash Fiction By Fifty Indian Writers (Dhauli Books, 2024)
“Say Hi,” The Best Small Fictions Anthology (2023)
“Frog Creek Crow,” Belle Point Mid/South Anthology (2022)
“The Dance of the Wayfarer,” IceFloe Love And Other Affinities Anthology (2022)
“Acorns Of Memories,” The Best Small Fictions Anthology (2021)
“Your First Friday Night At The Movies,” The Bending Genres Anthology 2018–2019 (2020)
“The Laughing Hyena,” The Best Small Fictions Anthology (2019)
“Sisters,” The &Now Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing (2013)
“The sisters…” [ C. ] (Mud Luscious Press Stamp Stories Anthology, 2011)
“The Egg Famine And The Man In Love,” The Medulla Review: Volume 1 Anthology (2010)
“The Pond Does Not Ripple,” Poetic Voices Without Borders 2 (2009)
“Anklet,” Kartika Review: Inaugural Year Anthology (2008)
Readings and Interviews
Zest: Q & A With The Citron Review (Interview, 2024)
Atchafalaya Darling With X-R-A-Y (Interview, 2024)
Speaking Of Marvels (Interview, 2024)
12 Or 20 Questions (Interview, 2024)
Vancouver Flash Fiction (Interview, 2023)
A Conversation (Interview, 2022)
Apparel For Authors (Interview, 2022)
Micro Podcast (Reading, 2021)
Interview With Judith Meriwether, Apres Midi Afternoon Classics, KRVS (Interview, 2019)
Two Questions, An Interview With Milk Candy Review (Interview, 2019)
Apparel For Authors (Interview, 2019)
Louisiana Book Festival, Featured Author, Innovative Fiction (Reading And Interview, 2018)
An Interview With Antioch University-Los Angeles MFA Creative Writing Program (Interview, 2018)
Finding Magic In Kolkata, An Interview With The Current Magazine (Interview, 2017)
Delightful Book Reviews (Interview, 2015)
Ernest J. Gaines Center Reading Series (Reading, 2013)
Bahrisons Booksellers Interview (Interview, 2013)
One Note (Interview, 2012)
On Reading (Interview, 2011)
Splintered Thoughts (Interview And Reading, 2010)
Recognition
“Only The Cow Knew,” Nominated for The Best Of The Net, 2025
“Only The Cow Knew,” Nominated for The Pushcart Prize, 2024
“Us Cajun South Brown Folk,” Nominated for The Pushcart Prize, 2024
“Valet Parking,” Nominated for The Pushcart Prize, 2024
Guest Contest Judge, The Wavelengths Chapbook Contest, 2024
“In The Shadow Of A Bird,” Nominated for The Best Of The Net, 2024
“Say Hi,” Best Small Fictions Anthology 2023 (Alternating Current Press, Anthology, 2023)
“A Sound Of Dew,” Nominated for the Pushcart Prize, 2023
“Chapter 16,” Excerpt From Tentacles Numbing, Nominated for the Pushcart Prize, 2023
“A Lament For My Apparition,” Nominated for The Best Of The Net, 2023
“Lost Centuries,” Nominated for The Pushcart Prize, 2022
“Solar Drifts,” Nominated for the Best Microfiction Anthology, 2022
“A Brief Introduction To Memory,” Nominated for the Best Microfiction Anthology, 2022
“Acorns Of Memories,” Best Small Fictions Anthology 2021 (Sonder Press, Anthology, 2021)
“Her Garden Her Earth,” Nominated for The Best Of The Net, 2021
“Bones,” Nominated for The Best Of The Net, 2020
“Know No Better,” Nominated for The Best Of The Net, 2020
“The Rabbit’s Entrance,” Nominated for The Best Of The Net, 2020
“Wander Throughout,” Nominated for the 2021 Orison Anthology, 2020
“Upon A Sunny Day At Noon,” Nominated for The Pushcart Prize, 2019
“The Laughing Hyena,” Best Small Fictions Anthology 2019 (Sonder Press, Anthology), 2019
“The Good Dead Dog,” Nominated for The Best Of The Net, 2013
“Sisters,” The &Now Awards 2: Best Innovative Writing (&Now Books, Anthology), 2013
i am here And You Are Gone, Winner of the OW Press Fiction Chapbook Contest, 2010
“Eight Hours Later,” Nominated for The Best Of The Net, 2009
Lemon Juice (chapbook manuscript), Finalist for The Spire Press Prose Chapbook Contest, 2009
“The Boatman’s Home,” The storySouth Million Writers Award Notable Stories, 2008