I have a short story and a poem published in Fables Online Magazine, as well as a poem in the Rose and Thorn Ezine's summer issue. Last Fall I was asked to contribute to their guest blog for the week of November 4-10. You can view that (and the poem) here.
NEWS: My poem in Rose and Thorn, "Ug's Sonnet" for short, was nominated by the journal to be in the Best of the Net anthology. This doesn't necessarily mean it will make it in, but I'm happy they thought it worthwhile!
I have given papers at the Graduate Medievalists at Berkeley conference on Epistemological Horizons in the Middle Ages and at the SASS (Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies) conferences in LA, Portland, Oxford, Mississippi, and Augustana College.
My SASS 2004 paper on the hidden "Cursed Treasure Narrative" in Gisla saga can be viewed here: page 1.
My first Field Paper for my PhD was originally presented in a shorter form at the SASS 2005 conference. In it I explore the Old Norse poem Volundarkvida and its unique combination of a fairy-tale narrative and a heroic lay. It may be viewed here.
My second field paper, based off of my 2007 SASS paper, is on Skaldic Ekphrasis (my dissertation topic) and may be viewed here.
My SASS 2006 paper explores the Figure of the Viking in the sagas and its use in the construction of a specifically Icelandic identity. You can view it here. My third field paper, which is an expanded version of the Viking paper, may be found here.
For the moment I have a class paper on Old Icelandic Religious poetry online. You can view that here.
I belong to a local writers group called SCUM, which you can read about by clicking here. Many of our members are published in the CBA market, including Christy Award winners John Olson (Oxygen, The Fifth Man, Adrenaline) and Randy Ingermanson (Oxygen, The Fifth Man, Transgression, Who Wrote the Bible Code) and our interests range from children's fiction, to poetry, to historical fiction, to science fiction and fantasy, to short literary fiction. One of our members, John Renning, passed away in 2003. We are very sad about his leaving us, but grateful for the time we had with him. We hope to get a collection of his poetry (from humorous to spiritual) self-published and available. If it works out, I will have more information about that here in the future. Unfortunately, his children's fantasy novel featuring the cat Butterbritches, a favorite of all of us SCUMlings, has been left unfinished.
You can also find out about my own writing on my SCUM page, or follow this link to Fables Online E-zine to read my story (in the Scandinavian section of the Crown and Thistle Inn) or my poem in the poetry archives. My story, "The giant and the cathedral", was to be published in the e-zine's best of collection in 2005, but the website hasn't been updated since Winter 2004, and I'm assuming that the collection will never come out. My poem "Neolithic Luddite" can be read at the Rose and Thorn Ezine, as well as my guest blog for Nov 4-10, 2007.
I have started working on a recommended reading page, in case any one is interested. It will start out pretty small, as I don't have much time to work on it. In fact, I haven't worked on it for at least 5 years, and would advice that you instead join me at www.goodreads.com.
