Published
Books
In the Warmth of the Shade
Journals & Contests
- Poets and Patrons 67th Poetry Contest 2023 / Formal Verse 2nd Place Honorable Mention, On Forgetting.
- Morning Chai (won the Budilovsky Literary Award), Prairie Light Review, Issue 45, Fall 2022
- Yours Truly, Prairie Light Review, Issue 45, Fall 2022
- Won the Lighting of the Fire Poetry Contest sponsored by Highland Park Poetry and the Ravinia Neighbors Association. Recited winning poem at the Centennial Celebration of the Ravinia Village House in Highland Park on November 22, 2013. Read my blog post on this award
Unpublished
Poetry
- Suhail’s Kite
- A 59-stanza story in verse (illustrations in progress)
Fiction
- Tyrants
- 53,000 words, fiction/drama/suspense novella, (Query Letter)
- Kindred
- 55,000 words, fiction/drama novella, (Query Letter)
In Progress
Creative Non-Fiction
- Memoirs of a Twentieth Century Master Mariner
- Nautical non-fiction
Other (Older) Writings
- Rivulets 27: Writings from the Naperville Writers Group
- five of my poems were accepted for publication
- Society of Classical Poets Journal 2014 (Annual Journal, Volume 2)
- five of my poems were accepted for publication
- Society of Classical Poets Annual Journal, Vol. 1 2013
- four of my poems were accepted for publication