NONFICTION
Historiola!
History Substack, 2022-present
The Salt Lake Tribune
Utah Eats Reporter, January 2022-December 2022
sltrib.com
St. Louis Magazine
Culture Editor, 2005-2018
stlmag.com
St. Louis Brews: The History of Brewing in the Gateway City (2nd Ed., Reedy Press, 2015), by Henry Herbst, Donald Roussin, Kevin Kious and Stefene Russell
The Curator: “Swn y Chwedlonol (The Legendary Sound)“
Otis Nebula: “A Tour of Industry With the Holy Ghost”
52nd City Magazine Kick-Ass Awards
The first Kick Ass Awards was held in January, 2004, in Austin, TX, and was founded by writer Spike Gillespie. It was adapted for St. Louis that fall by Thomas Crone and Stefene Russell. Over the next few years, KAA winning alumnae Andrea Avery, Brandyn Jones and Ann Haubrich joined the core group of organizers for the event. Between 2005-08, the effort was part of the late culture and literature magazine 52nd City.
POETRY
Bayou, Managing Editor, 2023-present
52nd City
Poetry Editor, 2002-2008
47 Incantatory Essays (Spartan Press, 2019)
The Possum Codex (Otis Nebula, 2015)
(watch the book trailers here!)
Inferna (Intagliata Press, 2013)
Go South for Animal Index (2007)
Naming the Monsters: On writing Go South
The Whys and Hows of Scoring Go South
Some video excerpts of the Go South film adaptation, at The South Side of Luck blog
Hybrid poetics at HiLowBrow, 2022
Poems at Otis Nebula:
Issue 19 (2025)
Issue 13 (2018)
Issue 10 (2015)
Issue 3 (2011)
Readings:
Silver Room, September 2025
Gold Room, August 2025
Poetry Behind the Walls: A Special Performance at Angola (New Orleans Poetry Festival), April 2025
HEARDing Cats Collective, Poetry in 5-D, April 2025
Gold Room, January 2025
Rubber Flower Poetry Hour Summer Series, August 2024
Twisted River Poetry @ Arabi Lighthouse, May 2024
Polyphonic Swamp Sonics (New Orleans Poetry Festival), April 2024
The Splice Poetry Series, March 2024
Gold Room, November 2023
Subvert and Delight, New Orleans Poetry Festival, April 2023
W/ Jim McGowin & Pavilion Sextet @ Jack’s Joint, November 2022
HEARDing Cats Collective, Four Points to Infinity, 2021
HEARDing Cats Collective, HerSelf, May 2020
HEARDing Cats Collective, Tower of Babel, 2019
HEARDing Cats Collective, out of the blue, 2017
FILMS
The Backward Swing (unreleased)
Plan 10 From Outer Space (1995; re-release March 2016)
Chloe’s Blanket (1998)
The Bunglers (2003)
Blind Cat Black (2007)
Delightful Water Universe (2008)
Go South for Animal Index (2013)
Welcome to the Rubber Room (2017)
Echo People (2021)
COMMUNITY
New Orleans Poetry Festival Board (2024-present)
KDHX FM Community Advisory Board (2018-2021)
2018 Laumeier Sculpture Park Poet-in-Residence
2018 Poet Laureate Task Force, City of St. Louis
New Music Circle Board (2017-2021)
Poetry Scores (2003-2020) PoSco is a St. Louis-based nonprofit arts organization dedicated to translating poetry into other media, including music, visual art and film. Samples of projects can be found on SoundCloud.
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