Publications

Poetry Chapbook:

• Feeding the Dead, Porkbelly Press (2017)

Poetry:

• “La Isla de las Munecas, Xochimilco, Mexico” – Newfound
• “Promise Land” – Ruminate
• “Soldiers in San Salvador,” “Communion,” “When Asked Why I Believe in Ghosts,” “Salt Girl,” “Shadow,” “Seance,” “Stations of the Cross”   –Psaltery & Lyre
• “Zombie Girl” – Penduline
• “Sleepover” – Cactus Heart
• “Meeting John Darnielle in St. Louis,” “Winecoff Hotel Fire, Atlanta, Georgia, 1946” – Exit 7
• “On the Fourth Floor, Waverly Hills Sanatorium,” “Schrodinger’s Urn” – Still: the Journal
• “Grief, Some Questions,” “Play, Waverly Hills Sanatorium,” “Stick Horse” – Permafrost
• “Six Flags” – Zone 3
• “Hunters” – Sugared Water, Myth + Magic
• “Feeding the Dead,” “Hellhound, Lost,” “Inside the chapel” – BlazeVOX
• “A Haunted House Disclaimer” – Fruita Pulp
• “Tuberculosis in Numbers,” “Halloween 2012, Waverly Hills Sanatorium” – Rogue Agent
• “Return to Pages Lane, Louisville, Kentucky” – Stirring: A Literary Collection
• “Trespassing” – museum of americana
• “The Ones Who Came Before” – Nonbinary Review
• “Outside the Haunted House, A Dancing Doll” and “Tarantula Fever” – So to Speak blog
• “How to Know If Your House is Haunted and What to Do” – Apex Magazine
• “Butterfly Girl” and “The Pack” –Glint
• “When a Father is Dying” – Rust+Moth
• “Night Tour of Waverly Hills Sanatorium” – Tahoma Literary Magazine
• “Angel in the House” – Presence
• “Butterfly Girl” – Fiolet & Wing: An Anthology of Domestic Fabulist Poetry
• “Woodshop Scene” – South Dakota Review
• “Blood” – Moon City Review
• “She Waits Outside Your House” and “Lost in a Hell Dimension” – Capsule Stories, Autumn Gloom
• “The Night of Brett Kavanaugh’s Hearing” – Glass: A Journal of Poetry
• “Urban Legend” and “The Warm-Up Girls” – Canthius
• “Stippled” – Thimble Literary Magazine
• “Ode to My Thirties Rebellion” – Whale Road Review
• “After Watching the Babadook,” “New Year,” “Before the Worst,” “How to Make a Monster” – Circle Show
• “Bitten” – The Fieldstone Review
• “The Devil’s Blueprints” – Lammergeier
• “Nice” – Flora Fiction
• “Break Room Gossip” and “In My Dreams I Find Them Dead” – Spoon Knife 5 – Liminal

Fiction-

• “Naming Those You’ve Never Met” – Psychopomp

Nonfiction- 

• “Bluebeard’s Robot Wives: Reexamining Patriarchy and Privacy in Alex Garland’s Ex Machina,” 2016 Southwest Popular/American Culture Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico
• “They’re All Going to Laugh at You: Finding Voice Through Horror and Poetry,” So To Speak blog
• “Not So Silent Hill or I Am the Reaper” – Moonchild Magazine

Contests-

• Winner of the 2014 Piney Dark Horror Contest, Poetry “Piper,” “Demons,” and “Antiques Roadshow: Human Bone Bench”
• Winner of the 2014 Lost Tower Publications Witching Hour Competition, Poem “Dead Girl”
• Winner of the 2015 Devilfish Review Kraken Awards, Poem “Hyena Girl”
• Honorable Mention, 2015 Kraken Awards, Poem “Teething”
• Winner of the 2015 Poetry Super Highway Contest, Poem “Goldilocks”
• Runner-Up and Semi-Finalist, Blue Lyra Review 2015 Shortish Poems Contest, “Found” and “The Pack”
• Poem, “Hunters,” nominated for 2015 Pushcart Prize by Sugared Water
• Poem, “When A Father is Dying” nominated for 2016 Pushcart Prize by Rust+Moth
• Poem, “Engine Girl,” nominated for 2016 Pushcart Prize by ELJ Editions

Interviews-

• Pints and Cupcakes – https://pintsandcupcakes.wordpress.com/2015/04/22/m-brett-gaffney-the-interview/
• Permafrost, “A Damn Good Simile” – http://permafrostmag.com/2015/11/04/interview-with-brett-gaffney
• Gwendolyn Kiste – http://www.gwendolynkiste.com/Blog/sweet-as-gingerbread-interview-with-m-brett-gaffney/

Editor-

• Co-Editor – Gingerbread House Literary Magazine
• 2016 Poetry Super Highway Contest Judge
• 2019 Piney Dark Horror Contest Judge