Publications

2010

February 2010: Winner of Salt Publishing’s Crashaw Prize. A collection is due by the end of 2010.

February 2010: “Castles” published in Conte.

2009

October 2009: Four poems translated and published in Eclipse, the literary magazine of Zaragoza University. Translations by Jessica Aliaga Lavrijsen.

September 2009: “Darkness on the Edge of Toast” published in The American Poetry Review.

June 2009: Invited to speak and read at Cambridge University ’s “America Week.”

June 2009: Editor: The Golden Hour Book Vol. II. Featuring “The Apartment”, “Open the Connections,” and “Waiting for the Ocean”.

February 2009: “We Could Sing Along With The Band” and “Falling, Nos. 18, 39 and 266″ published in Read This #15.

February 2009: “My Hundred-Year-Old Ghost” and “Winter (I Cannot Remember A Single Breakfast) published by Tontine.

2008

November 2008: Looking For Lockerbie published by Syracuse University Press.  Looking For Lockerbie

November 2008: Article on being Reader in Residence featured in The Skinny

November 2008: Editor: Stolen Stories Anthology Published by Forest Publications.

November 2008: “Everyone Always Talking About Jesus” and “Retrieving the Dead” published in Northwords Now. The whole issue is available for download here.

July 2008: “They Tore the Bridge Down a Year Later” published in Northwords Now. The issue is available for download here. (Inverness)

May 2008: A collection of poems published in New Leaf 24 (Breman, Germany)

May 2008: “It is Summer and in Connecticut the Grill is Grilling”, “Falling #147” and “They Will Go On” published in New Writing Scotland #26.

2007

November 2007: Three Poems published in V: An Anthology of International Writing From Edinburgh (Edinburgh University Press)

October 2007: Long-listed for the 2007 Bridport Prize

August 2007: a collection of poems published in New Leaf 23 (Breman, Germany.)New Leaf 24

July 2007: “Gasoline” placed 3rd in the Ver Poets Open Poetry Competition

June 2007: Four poems published in The Golden Hour Book an anthology from Forest Publications.

2005

September 2005 – 2007: Book Reviewer for The Skinny an Edinburgh and Glasgow listings magazine.

2004

June 2004 – 2007: Editor in Chief of SUBMIT. The Forest literary magazine.

April 2004: Continental Airline’s In-Flight Magazine publishes piece on Oslo.

2003

July 2003: The Boston Globe publishes a travel feature on the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

July 2003: The Sunday Herald (Glasgow) published a travel feature on Scots Fest which toured Bosnia in the Spring.

April 2003: Attended the Mostar International Festival as a poet and journalist.

2002

August 2002: I Hate Myself, I’m a Genius, I Ruin Everything (I’m So Lonely) is released byRyan Album Cover - 400x400
Forest Records – an experiment in spoken word put to music by local artists.

June 2002 – Present: Editor in Chief of CIA NIGHTS (Edinburgh) a bi-weekly collage of news, satires and literature.

August 2002 – April 2004: Contributor to The Sunday Herald (Glasgow) including a travel Bosnia, coverage of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the death of Warren Zevon.

April 2002: Article on Belfast published in Black and White Magazine. (Sydney)

2002: Editor of Smallfry Magazine the independent literary magazine of Edinburgh.

2001

2001 – 2008: Poetry Editor at www.Ducts.org. (New York City)

November 2001: Short story, The Porch published in Smallfry Magazine.