Selected Creative Work

“Ars Poetica for West Tennessee.” Wildness Journal, vol. 39, 20 Sept. 2025, https://readwildness.com/39/scruton-tennessee.

Polyphony for Hallucinated Voices. Ben Tinterstices Editions, 2025.

“Trans Tarot Reading.” Pleiades, vol. 44, no. 1, Spring 2024, pp. 281.

“Letter for __________.” Carve Magazine, Fall 2023, pp. 61.

“All I Think of Is What I Look Like in Your Dreams.” Autofocus, 18 Sept. 2023, https://www.autofocuslit.com/mag/in-your-dreams.

“Across the Country We Watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” The Cincinnati Review, vol. 20, no. 2, 2023, pp. 183-84.

“Ars Poetica as Escape Route.” The Cincinnati Review, vol. 20, no. 2, 2023, pp. 185-86.

“My Camera Roll Shows Trees that Aren’t Standing Anymore.” Wildness Journal, no. 31, 28 Aug. 2023, https://readwildness.com/31/scruton-trees.

“Séance.” Quarterly West, vol. 106, 1 July 2022, https://www.quarterlywest.com/issue-106-scruton.

“In Transfemme Quarantine.” Shenandoah, vol. 71, no. 2, 20 June 2022.

“Harbingers.” CutBank Literary Journal, 12 Nov. 2021.

“Winter Solstice, 2019.” The Hunger, 1 June 2020.

“Ghost Keeps Trying to Sing Love Songs.” Foglifter, vol. 5, no. 1, 2020, pp. 37-38.

“Town Called Fireflies.” Barrow Street, 2020, pp. 98.

“Morphology 3.” Juked, vol. 17, 2020, pp. 42-44.

“Ghost Contemplates the Shape They Found on the X-Ray.” The Journal, vol. 44, no. 1, 2020, pp. 89.

“Ghost Hums as They Think of Love” and “Morphology 1.” Puerto del Sol, 5 July 2019. 

“Planting.” North American Review, vol. 304, no. 1, 2019.

“A Supermarket in Kentucky.” Harpur Palate, vol. 17, no. 2, 2018, pp. 103-04.

Selected Scholarly Work

“‘A Kind of Privilege to Haunt’: Settler Structures, Land-Based Knowledge, and the Agency of the (Super)Natural in The House of the Seven Gables.” Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, vol. 48, no. 1, 2022, pp. 28-49. Doi: 10.5325/nathhawtrevi.48.1.0028.

“‘Howling and Whistling in off the Sea’: Water, Supernatural Environments, and the Movement of Human and Nonhuman Souls in Conor McPherson’s The Weir.” Gothic Nature: New Directions in Ecohorror and the EcoGothic, vol. 3, 2022, pp. 69-92. Url: https://gothicnaturejournal.com/issue-iii/.