This thesis is a poetry manuscript that circles around the concept of lexical gaps in our language: words that we should have but currently lack. I am particularly interested in writing into those gaps from the perspective ...

Professionals is a collection of seven short stories about obsession, longing, and the calamities left in the wake of people chasing greatness grand and small. It centers characters fighting to outdo their ideas of ...

Saint Gary is a full-length poetry manuscript of documentary poetics centered on the 2011 horror story of the Ammons Family Haunting in Gary, Indiana. Utilizing court documents, hospital records, maps, and first-hand ...

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"The Late Greats" is a linked short story collection and part one of a novel titled "Holidays," which is set in the same world as the stories. The stories in this thesis comprise what the writer Russell Banks has called a ...

Women and Children First is the story of the coastal Massachusetts town Nashquitten, and the ways a girl’s murder reverberates through the community. Told through the eyes of several women and girls of the town, these ...