Yukon Science Fiction Writer

Fiction

• “Bondsmen,” (forthcoming) Metazen, 2009
• “How Magnificent is the Universal Donor,” (forthcoming) Evolve, Hades Publications, 2010.
• “American Blue at Home,” (forthcoming) The Leonardo Variations, ed. Jeff Vandermeer, 2010
• “Where the Sled Dogs Run,” Queer Wolf, Queered Fiction, 2009.
• “The Moon Over Tokyo Through Leaves in the Fall,”  Fantasy magazine, September 2009.
• “Believing in the Dog,” What’s Up Yukon?, November 13, 2008.
• “Bear With Me,” Tesseracts Eleven: Canadian Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy, November 2007
• “Brazos,” Strange Horizons, July 3 2007
• “Why the Poets Were Banned from the City,” OnSpec, Spring, 2007.
• “Old Lions,” Redivider, Spring 2005.
• “Lemmings in the Third Year,” Tesseracts 9: Canadian Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy, May 2005. *(see awards)
• “Exit Slowly, Pursued By Bears,” Urban Coyote, Fall 2003.
• “My Children in a Small Graveyard,” Out of Service: A Yukon Magazine of Art and Literature, Vol. 2, Fall 2002.

Articles—Journal

• “Caching in on Adventure,” Yukon: North of Ordinary, Summer 2009
• “Donning Our Coat,” Yukon: North of Ordinary, Fall 2008
• “Rare Yukon Plants,” Yukon: North of Ordinary, Summer 2008.
• “Portrait of the Artist as a Bear: Jazz, Nietzsche and the Animal Mask.” Mosaic, “The Animal II” (March 2007)
• “Whitman and Teddy Roosevelt: An Unpublished Whitman Manuscript at Sagamore
  Hill” (with Sherry Ceniza and Ed Folsom) Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, Volume
  23, 1/2, Summer/Fall 2005.
• “An Interview with Madeleine L’Engle,” The Mark, Vol 3, Spring 1997.
• “The Bootheel Project: An Artist’s Picture,” Missouri Folklore Society Journal, Vols.
  15-16, 1993-94.

NonFiction for Radio

• “Yukon 2058,” (5 part series, radio fictional narrative) for CBC North about life in the Yukon fifty years from now. Dec 8-12, 2008.
• “Leaving America,” (7 part memoir series, radio essays) for CBC North about
  my immigration journey from Texas to the Yukon Territory, Jun 2008
• “Adopting my Mother,” (5-part memoir series, radio essays) CBC North, June 2003
• Three Essays for Sept 11th memorial, CBC North Radio Memorial program, Sept.
  11, 2002

Cartooning

• Polar Bonds, comic strip in the Yukon News, April 2003–Dec 2003
• Captain Bly, self-published book of comic strips which had previously appeared in The Maneater (1992-1994), 1994

Works in Progress

• Coming Out of America: a memoir of my immigration to the Yukon Territory: my 4000 mile road trip through the US and Canada, interviewing Americans and Canadians along the road, becomes a backdrop for talking about faith, immigration, Canada and the nature of national and personal identity.
• Witness for their Evolution: When Animals Speak in Literature (collection of articles on talking animals in 20th Century Literature)
• “Straight from the Gorilla’s Mouth: Aping Authorial Voice in Quinn’s Ishmael.”
• “Speaking of Grief: Primate Language acquisition and expressions of grief in Malamud’s God’s Grace”

Awards

• “Believing in the Dog,” First Place Winner, PSAC Whitehorse Regional Pride Committee Short Story Contest, Nov. 2008
• Tesseracts Nine wins Aurora Award for Best Work in English (other)
• Tesseracts Nine, the anthology containing “Lemmings,” listed on ForeWord
  Magazine’s Book of the Year list, 2005.
• Honourable Mention, Fountain Award, Speculative Literature Foundation, for “Lemmings in the Third Year,” from Tesseracts Nine, 2005.
• Distinguished Young Alumni Award, Wayland Baptist University, 2005
• Honourable Mention, John Haines Award, poetry, “At the Foot of the Bed in
  Korea,” Jan 2003
• Fulbright Fellowship to Canada, 2001-2002
• George T. Prigmore Graduate English Scholarship, Texas Tech University, 2001
• William Bryan Gates Award for Doctoral Students, Texas Tech University, 2000
• The Milton Center Post-Graduate Fellowship Award, 1996-1997

Conference Papers Presented

• “ ‘The Bear Did Not Reply’: Manufacturing Consent and Animal Speech in Marian Engel’s Bear,” (forthcoming) Canadian Film and Literature, RMMLA, Reno, October 2008.
• Chair of Canadian Film and Literature, RMMLA, Reno, 2008
• Chair of The Question of the Animal in Literature and Culture, RMMLA, Reno 2008.
• “Akela’s Curriculum: Kipling, Baden-Powell and Animal Teachers in the Cub Scouts,” RMMLA conference, Calgary, October 6 2007.
• Moderator, “Where Genre and Non-Genre Meet: Texas Writers on Texas Writing,” AWP conference, Austin, March 2006.
• Panelist, “Celebrating Robert E. Howard in his Centennial Year,” AWP conference, Austin, March 8-12, 2006.
• “Evolution, with Occasional Gun: ‘Uplifted’ Animals, Violence and Moral Responsibility in Lethem’s Gun, with Occasional Music” 19th Annual conference, Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, November, 2005
• “The Portrait of the Artist as a Bear: Using Nietzsche to understand the fantasy elements in Rafi Zabor’s The Bear Comes Home.” Southwest/Texas Pop Culture Association Conference, Albuquerque, NM, March, 2001.
• “The Bear as Religious Figure: an examination of the narrative use of the bear in 20th Century Literature.” University of Missouri-Columbia English Graduate Student Conference, February 2000.
• “Cultural Assimilation: Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis and the discourse of Indian Captivity narratives.” Texas Tech Graduate English Conference, February, 2000.
• “Out of the Shadows of Watership Down: bringing Shardik to new audiences” Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Conference, Albuquerque, NM, February 2000.
• “In the Shadows of Watership Down: a reception study of Adam’s Shardik in light of timing, previous works and children’s literature” Hubcon III, Texas Tech University, October, 1999.