Published Fiction
Winner of the 11-one-of-a-kind-word story contest in Raconteur [web]
"Ten Days" in Hypertext Review [print]
"As Predictable as a Heartbeat" (novel excerpt) in Litro [web]
"Siren Song" inWords After Dark: A Lyrics, Lit & Liquor Anthology [print]
"India" in Bookanista [web]
"Testify" in Runaway Parade: An Anthology [print] & Runaway Parade [web, now defunct]
"The Choice" in Runaway Parade & Storyteller [web, now defunct]
"illuminated destruction" + writer's statement about the story in Fringe [web, now defunct]
"vacancy" in Slush Pile [web]
"The Way of Words" in The Dirty Napkin [web, now defunct]
"Bloodsport" in Broken Pencil, Indie Writers’ Deathmatch Semi-Finalist [print & web]
"Slow" in Cavalier Literary Couture [web]
Published Nonfiction
"My Own Nirvana" in Vol.1 Brooklyn [web]
"How Zelda Saved Me: The Inspiration, Feminism, and Empowerment of Hyrule" in Entropy [web, now defunct]
"words on his death and other related things" in Sonora Review [print]
"Fragile" in Liars' League and performed by an actor at KGB Bar [web, with voice recording of actor]
"A Break" in Chicago Literati [web, now defunct]
"What it Takes" in First Encounters with One's Own Femininity [web]
Published Poetry
"Anything Else" in American Writers Review 2022: The End or the Beginning published by San Fedele Press [print]
"A death. A dream." (page 139) in The Blue Mountain Review [web & print]
"Hart Island" in Pangyrus (In Sickness and In Health section) + a micro-essay about the origins of the poem [web]
"strings" in The Night Heron Barks [web, with voice recording]
"before the music stops" in Passengers Journal [web, featured work]
"How to Take a Bath" in District Lit's "How To" issue [web]
"Threshold" in In Isolation, a poetry anthology published by Alternative Field & Avenue 50 Studio [print]
"Sold!" & "Godspeed" in Words After Dark: A Lyrics, Lit & Liquor Anthology published by Lucid River Press [print]
Other...
"Extreme Choices: An Interview with Scott Alexander Hess" in English Kills Review [web]
"Am Phu Cave" in Atlas Obscura [web]
Concert Review: Legendary Pink Dots at Knitting Factory originally in BRM and now on LPD website [web]