Creative Work

Fiction and poetry.

Flight

A novel manuscript · 80,000 words · Under agent review

Flight is a work of literary fiction about risk and resistance, light and dark energies — and the barriers people create to preserve their comfortable, ziplocked lives.

Structured in six sections that correspond to spiritual dates and martyrs, the novel dramatizes two months in the life of a woman who works in an exotic bird store. Her best friend is a circus contortionist. She has three love interests: a bashful policeman, an egomaniacal astrophysicist, and a distant fiancé. At the center of her story is Maddie, a yellow-collared macaw.

Gavin Keulks talking across a table, an open notepad and pen in front of him — Workshopping the mss.

Poems

“Trappists” and “Houdini.” The Antigonish Review 153 (Summer 2008): 76–79.
“Retreating.” The Merton Journal 15.1 (Eastertide 2008): 12–13. thomasmertonsociety.org (PDF)
“The Shower (for Thomas Merton).” The Merton Journal 10.2 (Advent 2003): 13–14. Read by the editor at the annual meeting of the Thomas Merton Society of Great Britain and Ireland. thomasmertonsociety.org (PDF)

Creative Nonfiction

“Remembrance of Mentorship Past—or, Marlow at the Shuffleboard.” Aldous Huxley: Modern Satirical Novelist of Ideas. Eds. Peter Firchow and Bernfried Nugel. Human Potentialities, vol. 8. LIT Verlag, 2006. xi–xvi.