Recent Publications
For-Profit Punishment: Life inside a Florida taxpayer-funded rehab center
“A months-long investigation by the Florida Trident, involving interviews with a dozen former employees and residents, found that Keeton House, despite receiving millions in taxpayers’ money, operates with little governmental oversight. All those interviewed described drug use, sexual misconduct, and retaliation against whistleblowers at the facility, raising questions about Florida’s growing reliance on privatized “treatment” programs to replace incarceration. “
Now You See me
Dead girls, missing girls, and the ones in between.
Originally published at the New Limestone Review with the University of Kentucky.
Malum Malus
An essay about the nurturing of mothers, that of food, and the dysfunction between the two.
First place winner in the Spring 2024 Blue Mesa Review’s Contest Issue judged by Sarah Gerard.
The one you feed
An essay about grief and suffering.
First Place Winner in Southward Essay Competition 2024 through Munster Lit.
A 2-minute radio essay on WFSU about the many times I have had to perform CPR—and the terrible responsibility of bringing a life back from the dead.
A 2-minute radio essay on WFSU about the death of one life and the divination of another.