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BOOKS:
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“Skull Kingdoms: An Imaginary Omnibus” Poetry/Hybrid, Unsolicited Press. 2024. Forthcoming
“Centrifugal: Unstories” Short Story Collection, Whiskey Tit Press. 2024.
“Wiki of Infinite Sorrows”-KERNPUNKT. 2021. Finalist for Big Other's 2021 Reader's Choice Award & Book Award for Fiction
“Dear Wolfmother” - PARTS I & 2, Serialized Digital Novel, Heavy Feather Review. 2019 [https://heavyfeatherreview.org/portfolio/burnside/]
“Rules to Win the Game,” Novel, Spuyten Duyvil. 2018
“Postludes,” Hybrid Fiction, Poetry, & Digital Literature Collection, KERNPUNKT Press February, 2017. Small Press Distribution Handpicked Selection
CHAPBOOKS:
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“Here Is a Little Book to Comfort You During These Unusually Dark Times” Hybrid, Selcouth Station Press. 2022
“Escapologies,” Red Bird Chapbooks, 2013
“Infinity’s Jukebox,” Passenger Side Books, 2013 [no longer in print]
SELECTED WORK OR INTERVIEWS APPEARING IN LITERARY MAGAZINES:
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2023
"Rockinghorse Daydream Called Yes" Poem, Los Angeles Review. Forthcoming
“Limbic” Prose Poem, Sweet: A Literary Journal. Forthcoming
“Wherewithal” Prose Poem, McNeese Review. Forthcoming
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2022
“Darksliding” Short Story, Cheat River Review
“Karmic” Prose Poem, Five South
“Fable” Prose Poem, Nurture Literary Journal
“Bellwether” Prose Poem, Berlin Lit
“A Tooth is a Tree” Poem, The Meadow
"Popquiz" + "Heather" Prose Poems, Unlikely Stories Mark V
“Perpetuum’s Sonata” Fiction. Cream City Review
“No Exit: A Gallery of Existential Horrors” Nonfiction, Post Road
“Transmigration of the Soul: a Cheat Sheet” Story, Phantom Drift Limited
“Hungers | Hunches| Hunts | Haunts” + “True Story” Stories, The Pinch
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2021
“An Advent Calendar to Assay the Dolorously Heartsick” Hybrid, Meow Meow Pow Pow. “Technologies of Sorrow” Poem, The Shore
“Attention All Poets!!!” Prose Poem, Sledgehammer
“The Artist of the Ugly” Story, Contrary
“Not a Prose Poem” Prose Poem, Unbroken Journal
“Ramshackle Heavens” Prose Poem, Ice Floe Press: Pandemic Anthology
“Reliquaries of the Loveless” Story, Hominum
“Ghost Story” Story, Hobart After Dark
“Encore” Story, BULL
“Infinity Paradise Oblivion Cubicle” Story, Trampset
“Digital Dreaming in Analog” Story, Heavy Feather Review
“Starskins” Story, Hobart
“Caustics: A Love Story” Story, Always Crashing
2020
“Three Prayers” Poems, Rejection Letters
“I cut my hand on a flower sharp with absurdity” Prose Poem, Giallo Lit
“¤ Clockwork Melancholies ¤” Flash Fairy Tale, GASHER Journal
“Young Escher Reconsiders the Human Heart as a Series of Tessellations Unspooling Toward Eternity” + “All of Tomorrow’s Rust is Electric,” Prose Poems, No Contact
“∂ Tetherlings ∂”, “₾ Pilgrimage ₾,” Flash Fairy Tales, Lammergeier
“Postlunar Lovesong” Poem, Pithead Chapel
“The Prognosticators” Short Story, Okay Donkey
“Meditations on an Echo in a Cave – Part I: A Brief History of the Coffee / Tea Break in Nintendo’s Mother Series, Writing as Getting Lost, Bombs, Wolves, Wax Jesus, & The Art of Pretending to Pray” Nonfiction, Grimoire
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2019
“Secondhand Heavens,” Story, Cartridge Lit
“Moments After My Wife Informs Me from the Passenger Seat That Lightning is Merely a Bundle of Negatively Charged Ions but What We Famously Know as Lightning Is Actually
Just the Positive Flash of Afterlight Crawling Its Way Wounded Back Up the Sky,” Prose
Poem, The Hunger
“Story of a Dollhouse,” Poem, 8 Poems
“Interview with Josh Denslow,” Interview, Lit Reactor
“Parting Letter,” Nonfiction, Brevity blog
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2018
“Rules to Win the Game,” Novel, Spuyten Duyvil
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2017
“A Topography for Cataclysmic Dreamers,” Mixed Media Collaboration, 7X7
“The Architecture of Emotion,” Interview with A.A. Balaskovits, Cartridge Lit
“Brief Index of All My Past Lives Leading Up to You,” Poem, Maudlin House
“Postludes: An Interview with Matthew Burnside,” Interview with Koh Xin Tian, Ploughshares blog
“On Postludes,” Interview with Lauren Prastien, Michigan Quarterly Review
“An(other) Interview…,” Interview with Sarena Ulibarri. Spec Fiction blog
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2016
“The World is Flat” Poem, JMWW, Exquisite Duet
“Spies” Story, Day One
“Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost” Poem, Cartridge Lit
“Totidem Verbis” Digital Poem in Inklewriter [obsolete now, sadly, but I loved it], Permafrost
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2015
“In Search Of: A Sandbox Novel” Interactive Novel-in-Progress, Best American Experimental Writing 2016
“Six Books to Light the Way Through the Darkest Night(s) of Your Soul” Blog post,
Ploughshares
“Reading as Intoxicant, Part II: Ten Books That Are Basically Drugs” Blog post,
Ploughshares
“Reading as Intoxicant, Part I: Neurochemical Qualities of the Modern Manic Page Peeler” Blog post, Ploughshares
“My Literary Zombie Apocalypse Dream Team” Blog post, Ploughshares
“Interactivity and the Game-ification of Books” Blog post, Ploughshares
“Five Literary Games” Blog post, Ploughshares
“The Virtue of Stillness” Blog post, Ploughshares
“An Incredibly Brief Introduction to New Media Lit” Blog Post, Ploughshares
“Is Anyone Reading Your Blog Posts?: Building a Literary Community in the Age of Facebook” Blog post, Ploughshares
“Stories You Can Touch” Blog post, Ploughshares
“Carefully Curated Catastrophes” Blog post, PANK
“In Search Of: A New Media Crash Course” Blog post. PANK
“Bestiary” Fiction, Los Angeles Review Issue 17, April 2015 [Issue out of print]
“Postludes” Fiction, Gingerbread House
“The Devil (and God) in the Details” Nonfiction, Passages North Blog
“Rules to Win the Game” Fiction, MARY: A Journal of New Writing, spring 2015 [reprint]
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2014
“On Bitterness” Nonfiction, Passages North Blog. July 25
“As We Speak Pink is Pissing in the Mouth of Tyranny,” Poetry, Black Heart Magazine. June
“Twelve Classic Poems Rewritten By Twelve Classic Video Games,” Poetry, Cartridge Lit.
"Directing James Franco," Nonfiction, DIAGRAM. Issue 14.2.
“Anti-Midnight in the Kingdom of Yes” + “Consequence of Splitting the Atom,” Poetry,
OmniVerse [reprint]. ZombieVerse: Resurrection Issue / originally appeared in < kill author
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2013
“Oblivion’s Fugue,” Fiction, Revolution House [reprint]. Volume 3.3. December
“Novel Excerpt from In Search Of” + “Interview with Matthew Burnside,” Fiction, Interview,
Squalorly
“My Kingdom for a Placebo,” Fiction, Schlock Magazine
“The Zombie Apocalypse Will Be Televised?” + “Anatomy of a Clockwork Cock” + “Four Ways to Drown a Cloud,” Poetry, Literary Orphans
"Careening Down the Highway in a Stolen Bumper Car, Slappy Sullivan Has His Last Laugh" + "The Puppy Apocalypse Will Not Be Televised" + "At the Sour Patch Kids' Birthday Party," Fiction, Black Heart Magazine
"For Kevin," Fiction, Apt
"For Mom," Fiction, Necessary Fiction
"For Dad," Fiction, Monkeybicycle
"Horoscapes," Poetry, Menacing Hedge
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2012
"Chronology of a Black Hole,” Poetry, Ilk. Issue 6
"11 More Inflexible Rules for Upstart Writers," Nonfiction, PANK Blog
"For Heather," Fiction, Bartleby Snopes. Issue 9
"Romance: Beyond Thunderdome," + "Death Metal Music Box," Poetry, Used Gravitrons.
Issue 9
"Cosmonauts/nots/knots," Fiction, Ninth Letter. Debut Online Issue
"Primer for Imaginary Theft," Poetry, Unshod Quills
"Only the Gods Know What Steve Buscemi is Capable Of," Fiction, Untoward. Volume 2, Issue 12
"Totems for New Combustible Life," Poetry, OF ZOOS. Issue 1.2
"The Internet Brushes Her Teeth with Candy Skulls," Poetry Collaboration, co-written with
Nathan Blake, OF ZOOS. Issue 1.2
"Futures," Fiction, LITnIMAGE
"On the Failure of Language to Comfort You Following the Death of Your Pet Rock, Pebble Without a Cause," Poetry, The Northville Review. September 4
"Manifesto in Autopilot," Nonfiction, The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review
"For Kylie," Fiction, Jersey Devil Press
"A Brief/Infinite Summer of Playing House," Poetry, Gargoyle
"The City She Sings Noir, Softly First & Then Without Mercy," Poetry, A-Minor
"Dear Poem," Poetry, The Fiddleback
"11 Inflexible Rules for Upstart Writers," Nonfiction, PANK Blog
"Escapology," Fiction, NAP. 2.10
"A Good Mandible is Hard to Find," Poetry, Birdfeast. Issue 3. Summer
"Ahmed Builds a Miniature Trebuchet Out of Milk Cartons and Popsicle Sticks, Aims it at Nobody," Poetry, elimae
"Yul Brynner Doesn't Give a Motherfuck" + "No Orgasm Will Ever Make Me Feel the Way Morgan Freeman's Voice Sounds" + "Trapped in Gary Busey's House, One Text Left" Poetry, Dinosaur Bees. Issue 4
"How to Build a Human Child from Spare Parts," Poetry, Used Furniture Review. February 3
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2011
"Revival," Fiction, Juked. November 15
"Literary Short Story: A Mad Lib," Fiction, PANK. Issue 6
"Emily on Fire, Waltzing, Waiting for the Rain," Poetry, Ginosko, Issue 11
"Biography," Fiction, decomP
"Procession of the Dogface Lepers," Fiction, Gloom Cupboard. Issue 128
"Ballad of a Bumblebee Trapped in Honey," Fiction, Contrary, Summer Issue
"Hey, got a light?" Fiction, Pulp Metal Magazine
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2010
"Cautionary Notes on a Blood-Splashed Sneaker Sole, Size 6½," Poetry, PANK
"Be a Minecatcher" + "Meditations of the Nameless Infinite" Poetry, Neon Magazine, UK.
Issue 23, Spring
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2009
"Dog Death Requiem," Fiction, Concho River Review. Vol. XXIII, Spring
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