Published Work

Novels
  • Turnback Ridge: Torrey House Press, 2022
  • Dead of Winter: Salt Publishing, UK (May 2016)
  • The Dark Lantern: published in the U.S. and Canada in paperback with Three Rivers Press (2009); in hardback with Crown (2008); in Australia and New Zealand with Scribe (2008); and in Italy as Il Casa dei Segreti with Newton Compton (hardback 2009/paperback 2011)
  • Cold Country: Duckworth, UK (2002). Also distributed in the US and Canada
Short Stories and flash fiction
  • FORTHCOMING: “Wake” in Bennington Review issue sixteen
  • “Gravity” Clackamas Literary Review Vol. 30, May 2026
  • “Afterlife” Flash Fiction Magazine 1st May 2026
  • “Trapdoor” San Pedro River Review Vol. 18 no. 1 spring 2026
  • “One Night in Winter” Bayou Magazine Issue 80 Feb 2026
  • “Ceremony of Farewell” AntipodeanSF Issue 328 Feb 2026 (also featured on the AntiSF Radio Show #702 Broederstroom, 14 June 2026)
  • “Devil’s Teeth” Litro Magazine (UK) 19 Oct, 2025
  • “Carried Away” The Phare Summer issue 11 Aug 2025
  • “Sordid Little World” X-R-A-Y Lit Mag 19 June 2025
  • “Ablaze” Vestal Review #65 13 Dec 2024
  • “The Purge, 1944” Flash Fiction Magazine 9 Aug 2024
  • “Petrified” (flash) Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women 34.2 winter/spring 2024
  • “Adrift” (flash) Atticus Review 15 April 2024
  • “Necessary Measures” (flash) in  Best Small Fictions Anthology 2023. Previously published in Litro Online: #FlashFriday (UK) 2nd Sept 2022.
  • “Flight”: Moss Magazine Vol 8, Oct 2023
  • “The Old Ways” Fictive Dream, 20 Oct 2023
  • “If you can see the sea, the sea can see you” Scribes*MICRO*Fiction Issue 33 15 Sept 2023
  • “Harvest” 365 Tomorrows (flash) 21 April 2023
  • “Windfall” Raritan: A Quarterly Review fall 2022
  • “Cuckoo” Pembroke Magazine #54 summer 2022 (also named one of top 50 stories in 2021 BBC National Short Story Contest)
  • “Ocean City, 1949” Bayou #75 Jan 2022
  • “Spoiled” The Waking: Ruminate Online 9th Feb 2021
  • “Broken” 101 Words, 15 Oct 2020
  • “Rasslabsia” JMWW 7th October 2020
  • “Huldremose” Copper Nickel, #31 & 32, fall 2020
  • “Release” New Limestone Review, 12th May, 2020
  • “Mr. Sweet-Pie” Gargoyle #71, Fall 2019: Pushcart nomination
  • “Timbuktu” Aurealis #120 (Chimaera Publications, Australia) May, 2019
  • “Dazzle” Litro Online: #FlashFriday (UK) September 2018
  • “A Grievous Burden” Crimewave 13: Bad Light, May 2018
  • “Gone” Nothing Short Of: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story. Ed. Grant Faulkner et al.. Outpost 19 Books, spring 2018.
  • “Williamsville” The Best American Mystery Stories 2017 Ed. John Sandford. (Previously published in Alaska Quarterly Review vol. 33 nos. 1 & 2 spring/summer 2016.)
  • “On Pilson Rock” Southwest Review Vol. 102 No. 1, April 2017
  • “Dirt” CALYX: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women Vol. 29.1 March 2016
  • “The Joke” Copper Nickel #22, March 2016
  • “I’m Coming to That” Juked February 2016
  • “My Promotion” Cleaver Magazine Issue No. 11 September 2015. Finalist for Queen’s Ferry Press The Best Small Fictions 2016. Guest editor: Stuart Dybek.
  • Dead of Winter excerpt in Alaska Sampler 2015, Running Fox Press, March 2015
  • “Beast” Gargoyle #62, February 2015
  • “Revenant” Mondays are Murder @ Akashic Press website, November 2014
  • “The Billet” Memorious: A Journal of New Verse and Fiction, Issue 22, summer 2014
  • “Lagniappe” Los Angeles Review Issue #14, November 2013
  • “Sunk” Redivider 11.1, fall/winter 2013 (nominated by Redivider for Pushcart 2013)
  • “His Good Fortune” Fiction Southeast, fall 2013
  • “North” Conte Vol 9 issue 1, 2013
  • “A Man for Hire” Quarter After Eight: A Journal of Innovative Writing issue #19 (issue devoted to work by mentors and their mentees), summer 2013
  • “Gone.” 100 Word Story, May 2013
  • “The Wild” BBC Radio 4 Opening Lines series (national broadcast of story 20 July 2012, plus audio podcast, audio publication, and on-line publication of story).
  • “Sourpuss.” The Brooklyn Review. Summer 2012.
  • “Waltzing.” The Long Story No. 30, December 2011.
  • “Instructions for Disposal of Dangerous Materials.” Used Furniture Review 7 December, 2011.
  • “At Rest.” Dirty Napkin #4.4 September 2011. (Publication plus audio recording.)
  • “Beset.” Bound Off: Literary Audio Podcast. September 2011. Nominated by Bound Off editors for the Million Writers Award.
  • “Nothing To Be Ashamed Of.” Word Riot. June 2011.
  • “The House at Hexworthy.” Bartleby Snopes June 2011.
  • “A Long and Distinguished Career.” Camera Obscura Journal of Literature and Photography Vol. 3 Summer/Fall 2011.
  • “A Disgrace.” Per Contra: The International Journal of the Arts, Literature and Ideas (spring 2011).
  • “A Small Loss.” New Orphic Review, Fall 2006.
  • “Heartbreak at the New Greek Café.” Hawaii Review 1994, issue 43.
  • “The Bruising.” Double-Entendre. Summer 1994.
  • “The Fish Corpse.” Unthank. Norwich, UK: Centre for Creative and Performing Arts, 1989.
Non-Fiction:
  • FORTHCOMING: “A Solitary Crane” EPOCH Magazine
  • “The world idling by” Flash Frontier (New Zealand) Dec 2024
  • “Dirty Laundry” The Tusculum Review Vol. 23, 2023
  • “A Vaster World” New World Writing, 4 April 2023
  • Invited contributor for February 2023 for Wrangell Mountains Center writers’ blog. Four blog entries on writing and literature: “You, the Writer” “Marking Time” “The Power of Three” “I Don’t Remember That Chinese Restaurant”
  • “New York No” Mslexia (UK) issue 88, Dec 2020
  • “Swamped” The Real Story (UK), 30th Oct 2020
  • “The Case of the Vampire Student” in The Chronicle of Higher Education Advice section 8 May 2013, http://chronicle.com/article/The-Case-of-the-Vampire/139099/
  • “Skirmish.” Redivider: A Journal of New Literature and Art 9.2 spring 2012.
  • “Translation”: (i) BLIP Magazine Summer 2011. (ii) BLIP magazine Summer 2011 (Kindle edition): BLIP Publishing, 18 August 2011 Invited contributor for May 2011 for Alaskan writers’ blog 49writers (www.49writers.blogspot.com).
  • Four blog entries on writing and literature: “On Running” “The End of the Story” “Messing With Books” “Becoming Unstuck”
  • “On the Chena River, January 2008.” Camas: The Nature of the West vol. 18 #3, Winter 2010.
  • “Lured to the Land of the Free.” Guardian (UK) 8 Feb. 1994.
  • “Coming Out of Winter.” Gulf Islands Guardian (July 1994).
  • “Living in Eden.” Santa Clara Review 81.2 (1994): 168-170.
Poetry
  • “Scattered” in Consequence Magazine Vol. 18.1 May 2026
  • “Boulevard du Temple” in Unbroken Magazine spring 2026
  • “So much earth.” Rosebud magazine #52, spring 2012.
Song Lyrics/Performances of Work
  • Winter Journeys: Songs for Orchestra and Chorus.  Lyrics (& narrative 2025): Gerri Brightwell, music Dr. James Michael Bicigo:
    • Premier of “Songs of a Winter’s Journey”with  narrative 12 December 2025 by the Red Deer Chamber Singers and Central Alberta Chamber Orchestra at Gaetz Memorial United Church, Red Deer, AB (performance also 14 December 2025 in Ponoka United Church, Ponoka, AB
    • Premier performance of “Holiday Memories” movement by Summer Music Academy, Academy Choir, 20 June, 2008.
    • Premier of “Songs of a Pioneer” sung by Danica Clark Hoffart, Chantal Boos and Sharon Braun as part of Sometimes in Winter at the Lacombe Performing Arts Centre, 21 Nov 2019, Lacombe, Alberta, Canada.
    • Premier of Movement Seven, 30th September, 2007, by the Rostern Community College Choir and Saskatoon Youth Orchestra in Saskatchewan, Canada. Entry in the ASCAP Rudolph Nissan Competition, Nov. 2007.
    • Premier performance of “Lost Dog” movement by Summer Music Academy Concert Choir, 12 June, 2008.
    • Premier performance of “The Old Whale Road: and “Angel of Snow” movements by Summer Music Academy Concert Choir, 20 June, 2008
    • Premier performance of “Holiday Memories” movement by Summer Music Academy, Academy Choir, 20 June, 2008.
Book reviews
  • Review of Roy Ness’s Rutting Season (novel) in The Northern Review #46, December 2017.
  • Review of Ian Burney’s Poison, Detection and the Victorian Imagination. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2007. Journal of British Studies, vol. 47, n. 2, April 2008.
Literary Criticism
  • “Hunted Down,” “A Manchester Marriage,” “A Scandal in Bohemia.” Companion to the British Short Story and Short Fiction. Ed. Andrew Maunder. Facts on File, 2006.
  • “The Case of the Household Spy: Public Service and Domestic Service in Hayward’s ‘The Mysterious Countess.’” CLUES: A Journal of Detection. Spring 2005.
  • “Charting the Nebula: Gender, Language and Power in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening.” Women & Language 18.2 (1995): 37-41.
  • “Flags and Filters: The Influence of Colour in Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook.” The Doris Lessing Newsletter 16.1 (1994): 3+.
Composition, Second-language Acquisition, and Pedagogy