I live in the Columbia River Gorge, one of the most beautiful places anywhere. My day job is at the local public library. I started writing quite young, and submitted my first story to a magazine when I was 14 years old. Nowadays I write poems, stories, novels, and a little non-fiction. I’m married to fellow writer Kim Antieau. We met at a writer’s workshop quite a few moons ago and got married a year later. We’ve been deliriously happy for many years now. My advice to any would be writers: Don’t do it! It’s a crazy life. But if you absolutely must enter this nutty profession, here’s three things that just might help you out: 1. Write regularly (every day is good). 2. Read constantly. 3. Get a job. Seriously.
Complete Bibliography
Books • Short Stories • Poems • Blogs • Essays • Reviews • Articles
Books
Claypot Dreamstance
Short Stories
“The Voices” Penumbra (forthcoming)
“Ray” Space and Time (forthcoming)
“Property Lines” Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, March 2012
“The Gambler’s Tale” Green Snake Publishing, March 11, 2012
“How the Clouds Became Domesticated” Green Snake Publishing, March 4, 2012
“Under the Mask” Green Snake Publishing, February 26, 2012
“Before the Birds” Green Snake Publishing, February 19, 2012
“The Restless Wanderer” Green Snake Publishing, February 12, 2012
“Hail Mary” Green Snake Publishing, February 5, 2012
“The Crying Stone” Green Snake Publishing, January 26, 2012
“The Infinite Garden” Green Snake Publishing, January 21, 2012
“Marble Angels” Green Snake Publishing, January 14, 2012
“The Kick” Green Snake Publishing, January 7, 2012
“The Universe of Death” Green Snake Publishing, January 2, 2012
“Weedhead” Pulp Empire, 2011 • Reprinted as an ebook by Green Snake Publishing, 2012
“The Last Last Meal” Green Snake Publishing, December 4, 2011
“The Overtaker” Green Snake Publishing, November 27, 2011
“To Make a Puppet of Me” Green Snake Publishing, November 20, 2011
“The King’s Tale” Green Snake Publishing, November 13, 2011
“The Corrosive Properties of Dream States” Green Snake Publishing, November 6, 2011
“The Spirit in the Ink” Green Snake Publishing, October 30, 2011
“The Night Alex Almost Flew Over Old Lady Grayson’s Place” Green Snake Publishing, October 23, 2011
“They Taste Like Chicken” Green Snake Publishing, October 16, 2011
“Killing Time” Green Snake Publishing, October 9, 2011
“Faith” Green Snake Publishing, October 3, 2011
“The Clex Are Our Friends” Daily Science Fiction, June 14, 2011 • Reprinted as an ebook by Green Snake Publishing (2011)
“What They Want” Poe Little Thing (2011)
“An Unnatural History of Scarecrows” Bewere the Night 2011
“Faith” Daily Science Fiction, November 1, 2010 • Reprinted as an ebook by Green Snake Publishing (2011)
“28 Ways to Look at Illness” annalemma.com, August 2010
“Moleskin“ qarrtsiluni, August 2010
“My Administration” Green Snake Publishing, June 21, 2011
“The Untied States of America” Interzone 228, May/June 2010 • Reprinted as an ebook by Green Snake Publishing (2010)
“How the Owl Learned That Being Wise Isn’t Everything” Emerald Tales, April 2010, v. 2, no. 2 • Reprinted as an ebook by Green Snake Publishing (2010)
“Cold Comfort” sfreader.com, March 2010 • Reprinted as an ebook by Green Snake Publishing (2010)
“Parallel Moons” Space and Time, #110, Spring 2010 • Reprinted as an ebook by Green Snake Publishing (2010)
“The Lost Day“ Full of Crow, January 2010 • Reprinted as an ebook by Green Snake Publishing (2010)
“Will” Ballista, #7, Autumn/Winter 2009 • Reprinted as an ebook by Green Snake Publishing (2010)
“Winding Broomcorn” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 2009 • Reprinted: Fiction #13, 2011, as “Un Balais à l’ancienne” French translation by Thomas Demarcq • Reprinted as an ebook by Green Snake Publishing (2010)
“Pulling Strings: A Quantum Story Cycle“ qarrtsiluni, August 2008
“Red Shift” qarrtsiluni, July 2008
“Remembrance of Things to Come” Space and Time, #88, Summer 1998 • Reprinted as an ebook by Green Snake Publishing (2011)
“Dead Letters” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July 1995 • Reprinted: Fiction #7, 2008, as “Lettres de l’au-delà” French translation by Sophie Janod • Reprinted as an ebook by Green Snake Publishing (2011)
“Frames” Asimov’s Science Fiction, July 1995
“Mother” Pulphouse: A Fiction Magazine, #19, 1995
“Assistance” Space and Time, #85, Spring 1995 • Reprinted as an ebook by Green Snake Publishing (2011)
“Leaves” Pulphouse: A Fiction Magazine, Sept/Oct 1992
“Creases“ Pulphouse: A Fiction Magazine, July 1992
“Fear of Lucille” Pulphouse: A Weekly Magazine, June 1, 1991
“The Printer of Island Castle” Space and Time, #77, Winter 1990 • Reprinted: Nova SF, September 1998, as “Il Tipografo del Castello dell’isola” Italian translation by Manuela McMillen • Reprinted as an ebook by Green Snake Publishing (2011)
“The Fatal Colon” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1990 • Reprinted: Oi, Robot, ed. by Edward Ferman, 1995
“The Chromosome Future” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1990 • Reprinted: Oi, Robot, ed. by Edward Ferman, 1995
“This is the Title of This Story” Pulphouse Report #49, February 1988 • Reprinted: ISMS #13, 1991
“Up Above the World So High” The Clarion Awards, ed. by Damon Knight, 1984 • Reprinted: Nova SF, October 1991, as “In Alto, in Cima al Mondo” Italian translation by Stefano Carducci • Reprinted as an ebook by Green Snake Publishing (2010)
“In the Library” Space and Time #66, Summer 1984 • Reprinted as an ebook by Green Snake Publishing (2010)
Poems
“What if Words Had Guardian Angels” Journal of Mythic Arts, Winter 2006 • Reprinted from: Fantasy Life, 2004
“Blue: The Autobiography” Haz Mat Review, Fall 2006
“The Real Scoop About Pixies“ Journal of Mythic Arts, Summer/Autumn 2006
“Yip, Yip, Yip“ Journal of Mythic Arts, Summer 2006 • Reposted from: Animal Life, 2004
“Economy” Asimov’s Science Fiction, July 2005
“Compulsion” The Hat #6, Spring 2005
“Honey Moon” Asimov’s Science Fiction, March 2005 • Reprinted: Love Life, 2005
“Lessons” Out of Line, ed. by Sam Longmire, 2005
“It’s All a Matter of Perspective” Drexel Online Journal, 2004
“The Day the Earth Stood Still” Tales of the Unanticipated #25, Aug 2004 – July 2005
“The Ethics of Terraforming” Tales of the Unanticipated #25, Aug 2004 – July 2005
“Settled on the Sky” Journal of Mythic Arts, Spring 2005 •Reprinted from: Fantasy Life, 2004
“When a Tree Goes on Vacation” Tree Magic: Nature’s Antennas, ed. by Jackie Hofer, 2005
“House Keys are Dedicted Monogamists” The Southeast Examiner, February 2005 • Reprinted from: Fantasy Life, 2004
“Omnivores” Asimov’s Science Fiction, February 2005
“The Alien Liked to Cook” Asimov’s Science Fiction, December 2004
“World Traveler” Switched-On Gutenberg v. 6 #2, 2004
“Last Words” Aries #19, 2004
“Ignite” Pearl #33, Spring/Summer 2004
“Held Hostage” California Quarterly v. 30 #2, 2004
“Bigfoot” Journal of Mythic Arts, Summer 2004 • Reprinted: Animal Life, 2004
“My Bicycle” Asimov’s Science Fiction, August 2004 • Reprinted: Fantasy Life, 2004
“The Ultimate Truth” Into the Teeth of the Wind v. 4 #2-4, 2004 • Reprinted: Fantasy Life, 2004
“The Reluctant Storyteller” Into the Teeth of the Wind v. 4 #2-4, 2004
“Twenty-One Years Later“ Into the Teeth of the Wind v. 4 #2-4, 2004 • Reprinted: Love Life, 2005
“Nausea and Pain” Into the Teeth of the Wind v. 4 #2-4, 2004
“Caretakers” Dreams and Nightmares #66, September 2003
“Big Idea“ Asimov’s Science Fiction, June 2004
“We Are All Ghosts” The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Spring 2004 • Reprinted: Fantasy Life, 2004
“No Punchline” The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Spring 2004
“Field Study” The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Spring 2004
“Reindeer Presence” Journal of Mythic Arts, Winter 2004 • Reprinted: Animal Life, 2004
“Seek” Curbside Review, March 2004
“To See the Future” Hawai’i Review #60, Winter 2003
“The Best Hour” Hawai’i Review #60, Winter 2003
“Postcards” Asimov’s Science Fiction, Apr/May 2004
“Snow” Iodine Poetry Journal, Spring/Summer 2004
“After a Classmate in Grade Seven Called Me a Wop“ International Poetry Review, Fall 2003
“What’s Holding You Up” The Café Review #15, Winter 2004
“All the Names for Snow” The Café Review #15, Winter 2004
“Timing is Everything” Asimov’s Science Fiction, February 2004
“I’ve Always Wanted to Heal” Free Verse #70, January 2004 • Reprinted: Love Life, 2005
“Light Falls” Free Verse #70, January 2004
“The Geologist’s Wish” Wavelength #8, Winter 2003-2004
“Super Hero Takes the Month Off” Wavelength #8, Winter 2003-2004 • Reprinted: Fantasy Life, 2004
“The Stones Have Moved in the Night to Some Hidden Music” Wavelength #8, Winter 2003-2004
“At the Dump” The Silt Reader #5 2003
“Come Unique Cay Shun” Star*Line, Jul/Aug 2003
“Unlikely to Happen Any Time Soon” Asimov’s Science Fiction, January 2004 • Reprinted: Fantasy Life, 2004
“Lunar Fate” Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #13, November 2003 • Reprinted: Fantasy Life, 2004 • Reposted: Journal of Mythic Arts, Farewell Issue, 2008
“Book Mark” Redactions #2, Fall 2003
“When I Was” The Journal of Mythic Arts, Autumn 2003 • Reprinted: Animal Life, 2004
“Bands of Sunlight” Frantic Egg #7, September 2003
“Dogwood Blossoms” Frantic Egg #7, September 2003
“While Considering the Possibility of Using the Columbia River Gorge as the Setting for an Epic Fantasy” Mythic Delirium #9, Summer/Fall 2003 • Reprinted: Fantasy Life, 2004
“Doll, Still Living” Margie #2, 2004 • Reprinted: Fantasy Life, 2004
“Immigrant’s Lament” Confluence #14, 2003
“Champion Pedestrian” Nuthouse #71, Summer 2003
“She’s Eve: A Walking Poem” Snake Nation Review #16, 2003 • Reposted: Journal of Mythic Arts, Autumn 2003 • Reprinted: Animal Life, 2004
“When I Die“ Snake Nation Review #16, 2003 • Reprinted: Fantasy Life, 2004
“Missing Fingers“ 4th Street, May/Jun 2003 • Reprinted: Animal Life, 2004
“Just Before Sleep Shift on the Starship” Hadrosaur Tales #16, 2003
“Time’s Apologist” Into the Teeth of the Wind v. 3, #3, 2003
“Connected To” Into the Teeth of the Wind v. 3, #3, 2003
“The Sheriff Left a Message on Our Voice Mail” The Amherst Review #31, 2003
“The Only Proof You Need That People Try to Help People in Trouble Even if They are Strangers” Edgz #5, Winter/Spring 2003
“The First Living Skyscraper Copes With an Earthquake” Asimov’s Science Fiction, June 2003
“The Power of Myth” Asimov’s Science Fiction, June 2003 • Reprinted: Animal Life, 2004
“12 Things a Man Should Do After Dying” Nuthouse #70, Spring 2003 • Reprinted: Fantasy Life, 2004
“What Happened When I Tried Out My New Time Machine“ Space and Time #97, Spring 2003
“Early January Migration on the Coast Looking West” Windfall, Spring 2003
“The Life of a Meteor Storm” Windfall, Spring 2003
“When I Made a Painting of the Mountain” Windfall, Spring 2003
“Seaside Lei” Light #39, Winter 2002-2003
“Symphony for Cantilever” Dreams and Nightmares #64, January 2003
“True Story” Elysian Fields Quarterly: The Baseball Review, Winter 2003
“Dinner and Dancing” Rosebud #25, 2002 • Reprinted: Animal Life, 2004
“In Another World” Star*Line Nov/Dec 2002 • Reprinted: Love Life, 2005
“Returning to an Old Cliff Dwelling” Möbius, the Poetry Magazine, Fall & Winter 2002
“Resisting the Patriarchy” Möbius, the Poetry Magazine, Fall & Winter 2002 • Reprinted: Love Life, 2005
“Choosing Sides” Nerve Cowboy #14, Fall 2002 • Reprinted: Love Life, 2005
“Burdens of the Past” Art:Mag #25, 2002
“Five O’clock Shadow“ Art:Mag #25, 2002
“Suicide Note” Dreams and Nightmares #63, September 2002 • Reprinted: Poets Against the War, ed. by Sam Hamill, 2003 • Reprinted: Breaking Waves, ed. by Phyllis Irene Radford and Tiffany Trent, 2010
“When Someone Tells You Their Relative Just Died” Poetry Motel #30, 2002
“Plato’s Menagerie” Edgz #4, Summer/Fall 2002 • Reprinted: Animal Life, 2004
“Shaky Encounter” The Aardvark Adventurer, Summer/Fall 2002
“The Consequences of Life” The Green Hills Literary Lantern #13, 2002
“Maybe If I Took Them Off, I’d Be Happier” The Green Hills Literary Lantern #13, 2002
“A Field Guide to the Phosphenes” Full Unit Hookup #2, Summer 2002 • Reprinted: Fantasy Life, 2004
“Remembering My Walk” Frantic Egg #6, 2002
“The Unexpected Unexplained“ Asimov’s Science Fiction, Oct/Nov 2002 • Reprinted: Fantasy Life, 2004
“The World is a Strange Place” Confluence #13, 2002 • Reprinted: Fantasy Life, 2004
“What a Friend Told Me About the Men in Her Family” 4th Street, Jul/Aug 2002 • Reprinted: Animal Life, 2004
“Awakening to Dusk” Aries #9, 2002
“Serenade” The Aardvark Adventurer, Spring 2002
“Eternal Feasts” The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Spring 2002
“Delusion of Power” The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Spring 2002
“DNA” The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Spring 2002
“Passing Storm” Lynx Eye, Spring 2002
“You Can’t Know Because You Haven’t Been Sick” Rattle, Summer 2002
“Ark” Asimov’s Science Fiction, July 2002
“Undertaker” Asimov’s Science Fiction, July 2002
“Why Go?” Asimov’s Science Fiction, June 2002
“Elementary” Asimov’s Science Fiction, June 2002
“Looking Back” Asimov’s Science Fiction, May 2002
“Wondering What They Are Up To in the Middle of the Night” Asimov’s Science Fiction, May 2002 • Reprinted: Fantasy Life, 2004 • Reposted: Journal of Mythic Arts, Summer/Autumn 2006
“On Learning that Owls Hunt by Starlight” The Rockford Review, Winter 2002 • Reprinted: Animal Life, 2004
“The Great Divide” Asimov’s Science Fiction, April 2002 • Reprinted: Fantasy Life, 2004
“Creepy Crawlie” Tucumcari Literary Review
“Battlefield” Tucumcari Literary Review #117, February 2002
“Earth, Air, Water, and Fire” Dreams and Nightmares #61, January 2002
“A Brief History of Gravity” Dreams and Nightmares #61, January 2002
“Your Draft” Tucumcari Literary Review #116, Jan/Feb 2002
“There are Many Languages I don’t Understand” Albatross #13, 2001
“Birds of a Feather” Albatross #13, 2001
“Security” Into the Teeth of the Wind v. II, #2-3, 2001 • Reprinted: Love Live, 2005
“Homing Instinct” Tucumcari Literary Review #114, Sept/Oct 2001
“Iron Gallery” Aries #8, 2001
“A Gathering of Marbles” Black Warrior Review, Fall/Winter 2001
“Dyes of the Tweak” Light #33, Summer 2001
“Capsule” Midwest Poetry Review, August 2001
“A Disturbance in the Field” Snowy Egret, Spring 2001 • Reprinted: Animal Life, 2004
“Mark” Dreams and Nightmares #59, May 2001 • Reprinted: The 2002 Rhysling Anthology, ed. by Linda Addison, 2002 • Reprinted: Fantasy Life, 2004
“Night Sonnet” Tucumcari Literary Review #112, Jul/Aug 2001
“Wish You Were Here” The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Autumn 2001
“Heavy Decisions” The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Autumn 2001
“The Time I Bagged a Junker” Chase Park v. 1 #2, 2001
“What Happens When You Wait“ Chase Park v. 1 #2, 2001
“Mind Reader“ The Aardvark Adventurer, Fall 2001
“High and Low” Möbius, the Poetry Magazine, Fall-Winter 2001
“Wonder” The Rockford Review, Autumn 2001
“Big Bang” Star*Line Sept/Oct 2001
“Final Journey” Midwest Poetry Review, April 2001 • Reprinted: Animal Life, 2004
“Evidence” Midwest Poetry Review, April 2001 • Reprinted: Animal Life, 2004
“Chameleon” Möbius, the Poetry Magazine, Spring-Summer 2001
“Cosmic Cinquains” Tucumcari Literary Review #110, April 2001
“Up at 4 a.m.” Tucumcari Literary Review #109, Mar/Apr 2001
Blogs
Essay
“Why I Still Have Not Written My Flatland Story” The New York Review of Science Fiction, February 2001 • Reprinted as an ebook by Green Snake Publishing (2010)
Reviews
“CRANK! #3” Tangent, Jul/Aug 1994
“Fantasy & Science Fiction June 1994” Tangent, May/Jun 1994
“Space and Time #83” Tangent, Mar/Apr 1994
“CRANK! #2” Tangent, Mar/Apr 1994
“CRANK! #1” Tangent II, Jan/Feb 1994
Articles
“Beams and Dreams” Ruralite, September 1997
“A Botanical Celebrity” Ruralite, August 1997
Reprinted: Ruralite, March 1998
“Back to the Wild” Ruralite, July 1997
“A Devotion to Perfection” Ruralite, June 1997
“For the Love of Language” Ruralite, May 1997
“Mural Honors Volunteers” Ruralite, April 1997
“The House of Stone” Ruralite, March 1997
“A Place to Call Home” Ruralite, February 1997
“The Farming Game” Ruralite, January 1997
Reprinted: Ruralite, March 1997 as “Game Inventor Puts Fun in Farming”
“The Magic of Mt. Adams” Ruralite, December 1996
“Love at First Sight” Ruralite, November 1996
“On Top of the World” Ruralite, October 1996
“Painting with Needle and Thread” Ruralite, September 1996
“Master Gardening” Ruralite, August 1996
“Home Sweet Home” Ruralite, July 1996
“Putting Timber Valley on the Map” Ruralite, June 1996
“Tradition” Ruralite, May 1996
“History” Ruralite, April 1996
“Memories and Wildflowers” Ruralite, March 1996
“Martha and Stetson” Ruralite, February 1995
Reprinted: Ruralite, October 1996
“Renewed Spirit Brings Artist Back” Ruralite, January 1996
“Hairy Cows” Ruralite, December 1995
“Getting the Job Done” Ruralite, November 1995
“Past, Present and Future” Ruralite, October 1995
“Home Sweet Home” Ruralite, September 1995
Reprinted: Ruralite, April 1996, as “Joseph Drohan’s Houses are for the Birds” abridged
“Answering a Divine Calling” Ruralite, July 1995
“A Noteworthy Obsession” Ruralite, June 1995
“Picnicking With the Pioneers” Ruralite, May 1995
“Pete Graves Sings His Tales” Ruralite, April 1995
“Bingen’s Bike Man Fixeth” Ruralite, March 1995
“Making Fantasy a Reality” Ruralite, February 1995
“Running the River” Ruralite, January 1995
“Making a Difference in the Northwest” Ruralite, December 1994
“Here Comes Mrs. Horsepower” Ruralite, November 1994
“Center Stage in Trout Lake” Ruralite, October 1994
Reprinted: Ruralite, January 1997, as “Off, Off, Off, Broadway”
“Stewards of Nature” Ruralite, September 1994
Reprinted: Ruralite, June 1995 as “Where Children and Horses Come Together” abridged
“Ready at a Moment’s Notice When Disaster Strikes” Ruralite, August 1994
“Sandy Thomson is Ready to Play Some Golf” Ruralite, August 1994
“Making Drawing Come to Life” Ruralite, July 1994
“Author Profile: Kim Antieau” Tangent, May/Jun 1994
“Gadget Man” Ruralite, June 1994
“Carving the Rock of Ages” Ruralite, May 1994
“Up to His Neck in Ties” Ruralite, April 1994
Reprinted: Ruralite, June 1996, as “Collecting Bug has Michael Lamoreaux by the Neck”
“The Art of the Blade” Ruralite, March 1994
“Down to Earth” Ruralite, February 1994
“I Learned to Feel the Air” Yakama Nation Review, January 28, 1994
Reprinted: The White Salmon Enterprise, March 10, 1994, as “Palmer Perceives a Celilo II”
“Whoop-n-Holler Museum” Ruralite, January 1994
Reprinted: Ruralite, November 1994, as “Something to Whoop and Holler About”
“A Testament to Time” Ruralite, December 1993
“Potter” Ruralite, November 1993
“Power to the People: The Early Years of the PUD in Klickitat County” Ruralite, October 1993
“Mission with Vision” Ruralite, September 1993
“Cultivating the Power of the Wind” Ruralite, September 1993
“Guardians of the Past” Ruralite, August 1993
“Dennis and Bonnie’s Labor of Love” Ruralite, July 1993
“Mary’s Masterpieces” Ruralite, June 1993
“Forward Into the Past” Ruralite, May 1993
“Life Work” Ruralite, April 1993
Reprinted: Ruralite, April 1994, as “Capturing a Way of Life”
“Living With Leprechauns” Ruralite, March 1993
“Sam Hill’s Gift” Ruralite, February 1993
“Happy to Live in the Past” Ruralite, January 1993
“He’s Been Workin’ On the Railroad” Ruralite, November 1992
“Odyssey of the Mind” Ruralite, October 1992
“The Wizard of Wood” Ruralite, September 1992
“Big Fans of Little Horses” Ruralite, August 1992
Reprinted: Ruralite, September 1992 as “Small Packages for Big Dreams”abridged
“Singing of Changes” Ruralite, July 1992
“Cold Wind, Hard Land, Tough Tree” Ruralite, June 1992
“The Accidental Artist” Ruralite, May 1992
“The Hoisingtons’ Llovely Llamas” Ruralite, April 1992
“A Musical Vision” Ruralite, March 1992
“Friends are the Frosting on the Cake” Ruralite, February 1992
“Curt Olson, Musher” Ruralite, January 1992
“Wayne Byers’ Brooms” Ruralite, December 1991
“Jack’s Animal Crackers” Ruralite, November 1991
“Blue Heron Environmental Center” Ruralite, October 1991
“Willem is a Wonder” Ruralite, September 1991
“Time Machine” Ruralite, August 1991
“Rachel Gunkel: Still Playing with Mud” Ruralite, July 1991
“Chuck’s Wood Shop” Ruralite, June 1991
“A Couple of Wayside Journalists” Ruralite, May 1991
“John Blake Knows Bread” Ruralite, April 1991
Reprinted: Ruralite, October 1997, as “No Two Loaves Alike”
“Windward Foundation ‘A Family of Choice’” Ruralite, March 1991
“Outstanding Art” Ruralite, February 1991
“For the Love of Plants” Ruralite, January 1991
“Writing Lifeline” Ruralite, December 1990
