NONFICTION
Nonfiction
My nonfiction explores war, memory, place, identity and the ways experience follows us across time. My essays and literary journalism have appeared in Twisted Tongue Press, Collateral Journal, The Line Literary Review, Hippocampus Magazine, Iron & Air, BULL, Hobart, The War Horse, Split Lip and River Teeth.
- Ditties – Twisted Tongue Press · November 11, 2025
- To the Newbie Green River Guide – Collateral Journal · May 1, 2025
- One More Betrayal – The Line Literary Review · September 15, 2021
- Salsa Night – Hippocampus Magazine · March 8, 2021
- Gauges – Iron & Air Magazine Issue 41
- Splinters – BULL · May 17, 2019
- Béisbol – Hobart · April 16, 2019
- Kinematic – Construction Lit · March 18, 2019
- Losing Trust – The War Horse · February 28, 2018
- Cup of Stars – Split Lip · February 15, 2018
- Afghan Roses – River Teeth: Beautiful Things · January 22, 2018
- Tell Me a Story – Collateral Journal · November 15, 2016
Kinematic was an essay co-written with Matt Young in the now defunct Construction Lit Magazine. The reflective essay was about running in Vermont and how it reminded us of running in the Marine Corps. It was nominated for Sundress's Best of the Net in 2019.
Splinters was named a finalist in the 2018 Jeff Sharlet Memorial Award for Veterans. Francisco was one of a small group of 17 finalists selected from 499 entries to the contest held by The Iowa Review.
