Trampoline Games
It’s the summer of 1986 and all is not well among the sharply defined suburbs of Salt Lake City. A 12-year-old boy arrives in a land of “mountains, Mormons, crickets” to find baffling prejudice, but also intoxicating freedom, lust, moments of heaven and, in the end, a terrible violence.

The Moth Orchid
When a hereditary form of early onset dementia begins to ravage a woman’s mind, she embarks on a desperate quest into her past in hopes of finding answers. Set against the noir backdrop of a sub-zero Alaskan winter, The Moth Orchid is a gripping tale of one woman’s struggle with the inevitability of oblivion.

Permafrost

In 1998, the writer and poet Kent Fielding and I co-edited volume 20 of the University of Alaska Fairbanks' literary journal, Permafrost. Fielding is a key member of the Kentucky Literary Renaissance and co-founder of White Fields Press with the poet Ron Whitehead. His lit-world and Beat connections (which are listed on the journal's acknowledgement page) produced much of this extraordinary publication. With some editorial direction from Lawrence Ferlinghetti himself, the journal included work by Andy Warhol, Allen Ginsberg, Jean Genet, Thomas Merton, Peter Orlovsky, E.Ethelbert Miller, Jim Wayne Miller, and David Dodd Lee — much of it previously unpublished. Read the entire journal HERE.