Publications

I frequently write posts about publishing over at our Belle Point Press Substack. My other work is listed below.

Zine on literary publishing forthcoming from Microcosm

Nonfiction:

• Literary Publishing Can Be a Brave New World: On Vision, Business, and Audience (Lit Mag News Substack)
• “Not Beyond Help,” (Fare Forward, Summer 2023)
• “Grief through a Glass, Darkly: Mourning with The Darjeeling Limited and The Patient“ (Image Journal, Summer 2023)
• “Single-Vehicle Accidents,” (Louisiana Literature, Spring 2023)
• “The Soup Kitchen Fathers” (Slag Glass City, February 2023)
• “Johnny Cash, Pray for Me” (Oxford American: Music Issue Winter 2022)
• “Drink to the Dregs, Polish John” (The Other Journal, Fall 2022)
• “The This-ness of This Place: Introducing Belle Point Press and Mid/South Anthology“ (Front Porch Republic, September 2022)
• “Considering Conversion through the Life of Edith Stein” (Busted Halo, August 2022)
• “(Up)rooted Sin in Katherine Anne Porter’s Noon Wine“ (Genealogies of Modernity, June 2022)
• “What reading with children has taught me” (Radiant Magazine: Our Sunday Visitor, May 2022)
• “Watching, Waiting, and Lent-ing with Walker Percy” (Church Life Journal, April 2022)
• “How Bishop Fulton Sheen Changed How I View Lent” (Busted Halo, March 2022)
• “Place and Character in True Grit“ (Ploughshares Blog, March 2022)
• “Demystifying Soup Kitchen Relief during WWI” (Genealogies of Modernity, January 2022)
• “Community Service: How You Can Act on Catholic Social Teaching Every Day” (Busted Halo, January 2022)
• “Only Ever Faithful Friend” (Fare Forward, December 2021)
• “Sonnets in Advent with Dunstan Thompson” (Front Porch Republic, December 2021)
• “Will the Real Catholic Writers Please Stand Up?” (Dappled Things Blog, December 2021)
• Response to Russell Moore’s “Integrity and the Future of the Church” (Plough Quarterly, Winter 2022)
• “Conversions on the Page and on the Screen” and “Converting Conversions” (Genealogies of Modernity, November-December 2021)
• “The Generosity of Less: Learning from St. Clare this Advent” (Busted Halo, November 2021)
• “Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Terror of Faith-filled Doubt” (Dappled Things Blog, November 2021)
• “Seeking (Fictional) Converts at the End of the World” (Dappled Things Blog, September 2021)
• “Held in the Hands of Tradition” (Dappled Things Blog, July 2021)
• “God Didn’t Save Me—You Did” (Ruminate’s The Waking, November 2019)
• “On Reading Flannery to my Baby” (Dappled Things Blog, September 2019)
• “Charles Olson, [my] whirld saviour” (The Worcester Journal, Summer 2015) (as Casie Trotter)
• “Following Charles Olson to Connecticut” (UCONN Archives and Special Collections Blog Summer 2015) (as Casie Trotter)

Poetry:

• Three Arkansas poems (Arkansas Review, December 2022)
• “Baby” (Ekstasis, online and in print Fall 2022)
• “Death Has too Many Names These Days” (The Windhover, Fall 2022)
• “After a Mardi Gras Day” (Small Orange Journal, Spring 2022) *Honorable Mention, Emerging Woman Poet Honor*
• “Baseball with Birds” (Amethyst Review, May 2022)
• “Nude” (Jarfly, May 2022)
• “Mother” (Fare Forward, April 2022)
• “Razorback Buddha (Anecdote of the Hog)” (Susurrus, April 2022)
• “Played up to heaven” (Fathom Mag, March 2022)
• “Metal Poppies (Date at the World War I Museum)” (Magpie Lit, March 2022)
• “Johnny Cash, Pray for Me,” “Soup Kitchen,” and “Wearing the Sun” (three poems, Agape Review, February 2022)
• “Not a Holocaust Poem” (Ekstasis, January 2022)
• “Biblical Proportions” (Ekstasis, November 2021)
• “The Morning After The Wreck” (Heart of Flesh, Fall 2021)
• “Bonfires” (Earth & Altar, November 2021)
• “Only Say the Word” and “Dreams in the Mourning” (Dappled Things, Mary, Queen of Angels 2019)
• “Cain’s” (This Land, Fall 2015) (as Casie Trotter)

Book Reviews/Interviews:

• Other reviews…I should always be writing more reviews.
• Review: A Living is Not a Life by Alan Berecka (Presence Journal, 2023)
• “Form from Dust: An Interview with Benjamin Myers” (Whale Road Review, March 2023)
• “Ripples of Grace in Works of Mercy“ (Front Porch Republic, February 2023)
• “Ephemera with Roots: Les Murray’s Last Poems” (EcoTheo Review, November 2022)
• The Selected Letters of John Berryman (Christianity & Literature, June 2022)
• “Revering All Things on Soil-Stained Knees: A Review of Home Beneath the Church by Lauren Davis” (Portland Review, June 2022)
• “‘it’s all so incredible:’ Darren C. Demaree’s a child walks in the dark” (Jarfly, May 2022)
• “Motherhood as Sacrament: A Review of Maya Sinha’s The City Mother“ (Front Porch Republic, February 2022)
• “Book Review: As Earth Without Water“ (Psaltery & Lyre, December 2021)