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Published Writing

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Dragon Lady: Chimera Poems, Spartan Press, 2026

Secret Love for Hearts: Poems, Flying Ketchup Press, 2025

Davey Jay Tiger & the Pickleball Team, Chicken N Pickle, Picture Book, 2023

Night Blooming: Poems to Read at Twilight. Limited Edition, Flying Ketchup Press, 2022

Pray Like a Woman, NonFiction Memoir, Light Shine Books, 2022

Apple the Cat, Reconciliation Services, Picture Book, 2022

Tomie Q. Barbeque, Flying Ketchup Kids, Picture Book, 2022

Puss ‘N Boötes: Dark Poems, Flying Ketchup Press, 2020

Kinlight: Homegrown Heirloom Poems. Flying Ketchup Press, KC, MO 2017, 2019.

Tea with Alice: Heirloom Poems. Flying Ketchup Press, KC, MO 2019. 

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Short Fiction Editor

​Universe in a Bottle, Flying Ketchup Press 2023

This Job's Murder: Carole Lynn Jones, Flying Ketchup Press 2022

Stay With Me, Wisconsin, 2022 top 100 Kirkus Reviews

Tales from the Deep, Flying Ketchup Press 2021

Tales From The Dream Zone, Flying Ketchup Press 2020

Tales From the Goldilocks Zone, Flying Ketchup Press 2019

Picture Book Editor

The Dancing Chopsticks, Mary Ann Ordinario, Ian Reverente, Picture Book, ABC Books 2023, published in Khmer language by Room to Read Cambodia in October 2024. THE DANCING CHOPSTICKS into four languages! Hindi-Chinese, Urdu-Chinese, and Filipino-Chinese.

Bulul, Mary Ann Ordinario, BEST READS 2021 Philippines 7th National Children’s Book Awards 2022 and Manila International Book Fair.

Flour Sack Girl, Nina Bricko, flying ketchup kids, 2023

Hitch a Ride on the Color Express, Danielle D. Williams, Flying Ketchup Press, 2021

Apple the Cat, Polly McCann, Danielle D. Williams, Flying Ketchup Press, 2020

What's That Sound?  LeAnne Litka, Flying Ketchup Press. 2020.

Don't Take My Colors Away, Mary Ann Ordinario, Picture Book, ABC Books, 2021

Home is Where the Heart Is, Mary Ann Ordinario, Picture Book, ABC Books, 2020

The Song of the Gmelina Tree by Mary Ann Ordinario, Picture book, ABC Books, 2019

Poetry Editor

Wonder, Cheryl Delcour, Pinch of Salt Press, 2024

I Remember Myself, Mary Silwance, Salt & Fig Press, 2024

I am the River, Carole Lynn Richards, Pinch of Salt Press, 2024

Courageous Light: Musings of a Healer by Matt Turner, BeLoveHealing Press, 2024

Clarities of Thunder: The Selected Poems of Jeffrey Rudick, Pinch of Salt Press, 2024

Kismet: Poems by Lily Chesgreen Salt & Fig Press, 2023

Fight the Good Fight: of Faith by Cyndi Lee Lovely, Pinch of Salt Press, 2022

Venice Comes Clean by Victoria Garton, The Pen & Palette Press, 2022

Inside the Woods: MCC Maplewoods Literary Journal, Summer 2022

Sprouts: Meditations edited by Polly McCann & Ashley Burnham, Light Shine Books 2023

Path of Birds: Poets on the Rise, edited by Polly Alice McCann & Samantha Malay, Salt & Fig Press, 2023

Night Forest: Folk Poetry & Story, Salt & Fig Books, 2023

Little Fish: Tiny Meditations on Freedom by Beth Gulley, Pinch of Salt Press, 2022

The Very Edge: Poems In English, Spanish, and French, Araceli Esparza and Polly Alice McCann, Flying Ketchup Press, 2021

Poems in Glass, Hasna Sal, Flying Ketchup Press, 2021

Blue City Poets: Kansas City, Flying Ketchup Press, 2019

Knew: The Chapbook, TL Sanders, Flying Ketchup Press, 2020

Knew: The Poetic Screenplay, TL Sanders, Flying Ketchup Press, 2019

Road Map, Kevin Callahan, Flying Ketchup Press, 2019

Sweetened Condensed, Rebecca Grabill, Flying Ketchup Press, 2019

Wolf Pack: Penn Valley Community College Literary Journal, Flying Ketchup Press. 2018

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