Articles
"My 1968"
​Sports Literate Magazine, Fall 2018

A personal essay about what it was like chasing a national record during one tumultous year a half century ago.
"How Hungarians Launched America's Greatest Track Era"
Running Times Magazine, January, 2014

A feature article about the great coach Mihaly Igloi and the revolution he brought to American distance running in the 1960s.


​"Write Your Race"
Running Times Magazine, December 2014 

An article about how writing can help you with the mental game of distance running.
"The Brotherhood"
from Runners on Running, 2010

Jeff Bailey, a top Chicago-area high school runner, was looking forward to a big summer of training before his senior year. Then he was diagnosed with testicular cancer, and thus began his long battle to beat cancer and race in the state track meet. 

Short Stories



​"Her Name, Followed by an Asterisk​"
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature, 2018

Although the new girl was pretty, she was, at first, just another slow freshman on our team. Then she got freakishly fast, and things went really out of control.
"The Big Snow"
Northwest Indiana Literary Journal,
December 2017

Mom believed in wrestling, and so did I. But then our family was body-slammed by the greatest storm in history.