A surreal dramatic novel set in 1980 south Louisiana, SONG OF BLACKBIRDS chronicles the last days of eccentric Luther Livingston and his effect – in life and death – on the people he loved. (Shortlisted for 2007 Faulkner-Wisdom Novel Award, current status: seeking publisher)

WAIT. is a hallucinatory retelling of the Odysseus myth, which relates the domestic adventures of Penny LeBlanc, Penelope's flawed modern counterpart, after her husband Odell is drafted to Vietnam in 1969. (Winner, 2007 Evans Harrington Grant for a Novel in Progress, current status: seeking a publisher)