Short Fiction

“The Becoming” Exacting Clam (2021)

“The World As We Know It” Squestrum (2021)

“The World As We Know It” december (2019)

“Bohemian Rhapsody” Italian Americana (2018)

“Tony the Tiger” Phantom Drift (2018)

“The Rush of Water” Pithead Chapel (2018)

“Seven Rules for Surviving a Zombie Apocalypse While Running a Private Zoo” Switchgrass Review (2017)

“Rapture of the Deep” Cahoodadoodaling (2017)

“The Twi-Lite” Iron Horse Literary Review Trifecta (2017) e-single

“Incarnations” Permafrost (2016)

“Blue Sky and Pig Boy” Painted Bride Quarterly (2013) (as Carla Spataro)

“Stalkerrazzi” Mason's Road (2011)

“What I did on my Summer Vacation by Simon Willcox, Jr.” 4' 33" (2011) online audio magazine

“Tweak” 322 Review (2010)

“The Opposite of Winter” 322 Review (2010)

“What I did on my Summer Vacation by Simon Willcox, Jr.” 322 Review (2010)

“The Vegetable at Sunset” The Baltimore Review (2010)

“Sleeping Bear” Parlor (2007-2008)

“The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” Wild River Review (2006)

“Bent and Blue” Xconnect: Writers of the Information Age (2006)

“The Boy with a Fishing Pole” Hackwriters (2002)

Short Fiction – Anthologies

“Ad Me Redeo” Healing Visions (Matter Press 2023)

“Incarnations” Taboos & Transgressions: Stories of Wrongdoings (Madville Publishing 2021)

“Bent and Blue” 50 Over 50 (PS Books 2016)

“Swimming, Singing, Standing” Extraordinary Gifts (PS Books 2014)

“The Vegetable at Sunset” Another Breath (PS Books/RC Press 2014)

“And I am Once Again with You” Forgotten Philadelphia, Art and Writing Inspired by Philadelphia Heritage Sites (PS Books, 2012)

Poetry

“Trinacria,” and “Santa Lucia” Ovunque Siamo: New Italian-American Writing (2018)

Librettos and Musical Collaborations

With Mark Weiser, composer, libretto for: The Stronger Child

With Richard Belcastro, composer, spoken libretto for: Snow Drop

(Text title, “Snow Drop”)

With Richard Belcastro, composer, spoken word text for: Conflicting Impulses

(Text title, “The Thin Blue Line of Respect”)

Awards - Writing

Nomination, “Best of the Net” for “Rapture of the Deep” Cahoodadoodaling • 2018

Finalist, Curt Johnson Prose Awards, December Magazine (Judge Anne Tyler) • 2018

Finalist, Larry Brown Short Story Award, Pithead Chapel • 2018

Finalist, Sequestrum Reprint Award • 2017

Honorable Mention, Switchgrass Review Coastal Wellness Prize • 2017

First Place Winner, Iron Horse Literary Review Fiction Trifecta • 2017

Pushcart Prize Nomination for “Incarnations” Permafrost • 2016

Nominated for AWP’s George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community

Service in Literature • 2015

Finalist, Mason’s Road Fiction Contest (Judge Sarah Manguso) • 2011

Nomination, Story South Million Writer’s Award Parlor Journal • 2008

Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship for Fiction • 2005

Writing Aloud, Interact Theatre Company, Philadelphia • 2003-2004, 2006

Philadelphia City Paper Fiction Contest, 2nd Place • 2004

Philadelphia City Paper Fiction Contest, finalist • 2003

Articles

“An Introduction to Reading Aloud” Writers on Writing guest Blog Post (2014)
http://firstdaypress.org/writers-on-writing-an-introduction-to-reading-aloud/

“The Top Three Reasons Why Your Stories are Not Getting Published” Philadelphia Stories 3:3 (2006): 17.

“Ten Basic Rules for Polishing Short Fiction” Writers Conference at Penn 2 (2006): 373-378.