I was deeply honored in January 2025 when Press 53 nominated me for a Pushcart Prize. The nomination was for a short story called...

It's official! THE TRAIN TO SANTA FE, my third novel, will be released by the amazing Regal House Publishing on August 26, 2026. I'm...

Snakes of St. Augustine was released by Regal House Publishing on September 12, 2023. (Order here.) Reviews can be found here: Southern...

Check out my review of Carla Rachel Sameth's darkly humorous collection of pandemic-era poems, What is Left. The review appears on the...

I'm honored and thrilled to work with Regal House Publishing (RHP) -- an independent, traditional publisher with a stellar reputation for...

WASHOUT -- The sea turtle eggs, round and pale as golf balls, gaped from the side of the dune where the overheated, angry ocean had...

Jake Wolff recently won the Internet. Wolff, a creative writing professor, editor and director of The Florida Review, and author of The...

2020 unleashed a global pandemic, wildfires, hurricanes, and many bad DIY haircuts, but on Oct. 17, a nice thing happened. I won a gold...

My friend Alan as a young boy, standing on his uncle's shoulders in Brazil, ready to leap into his future, with many cousins in the...

Is it a freshwater pond? If so, is the water stagnant and murky, or clear, with light dancing on its surface? Maybe the body of water is...

Whenever I’m learning a new skill – let’s say, how to properly document a sea turtle nest, surf tiny waves, or make toast without burning...

“It’s just that my protagonist doesn’t want her brother to die,” I told a traveling companion at a café in Kathmandu. “I think it might...

The struggle was real. After reading my forthcoming novel, City in a Forest , an editor pointed out that one of my characters seemed to...

In my third novel, Seeing Gethin, my protagonist’s brother is crazy about snakes—brown, red, spotted, striped, harmless, venomous, or...