Writings

Publications

Books

• Vacua Vita
  Essays in Philosophy, Culture, and Literature
  800 pages. The Heavy Contortionist, 2024

• Sum: A Lyric Parody
  Poetry
  195 pages. The Heavy Contortionist, 2024

• Genius & Irrelevance
  Novel
  1438 pages. Currently submitted for publication (2025)

Stories

• Mercy is Not Movement & Demolition Man
  Action, Spectacle, September 2025

• Psalm (After the Animals)
  Bath Flash Fiction Award (Second Place), July 2025

• Autopsy of a Lamp
  The Penn Review, Forthcoming

• Adaptive Restoration
  Midcult, Forthcoming

• Municipal Ghostline
  vernacular., November 2025

• Blue Holds
  Night Picnic Press, Forthcoming

• Inventory Before Prayer
  trampset, December 2025

• Fools That Will Laugh on Earth, Most Weep in Hell
  Unlikely Stories, August 2025

• Where the Skybox Tears
  Cartridge Lit, July 2025

• The Mouth Under the Sink
  Overgrowth Press, June 2025

• The Temperature of Undone Vows
  Chewers, August 2025

Poems

• The Bit that Broke the Launch
  The Call Center, Forthcoming

• Electrotonic Decay in the Trophic Web and 3 other poems
  Clade Song, October 2025

• 5 Sestinas from The Book of Capacitors
  Collaborature, September-November 2025

• 2 Poems from The Book of Capacitors
  Unlikely Stories, August 2025

• 10 Poems from The Book of Capacitors
  Chewers, August-October 2025

Essays

• The Cabinet of Moods
  Blind Field: A Journal of Cultural Inquiry, Forthcoming

Any available copies can be found at  https://www.theheavycontortionist.com/. I am currently completing my first novel, Genius & Irrelevance.