Selected publications
Humor
Essay
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When my son jumped ship (Tiny Love Stories, the New York Times)
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My imaginary lover (Human Parts)
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An open letter from your shittiest friend (Mamamia Magazine, Medium Editor's Pick)
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An open letter to my unborn son (The Coffeelicious Magazine)
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The invisible wounds of war (Creations Magazine)
Fiction
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Dr. Marcie in the Morning (Short story, Defenestration Lit)
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The Assessment (Novel excerpt, Wintermute Lit)
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The 23rd Hero (Novel excerpt, The Write Launch)
Editorial
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Rebecca Anne Nguyen names her 10 most epic love stories (She Reads)
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How to write sizzling sex scenes despite the fear of sizzling (Writer Unboxed)
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How I write sex scenes that sizzle as someone who hides my sensuality (I Love Romance)
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For island vets, benefits are a 4,000-mile plane ride away (Military Times)
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What a combat vet taught me about handling stress (Military Times, Marine Corps Times)
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3 content design artifacts I can't live without (Indeed.Design)
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7 money moves to make before moving abroad (Bankrate.com)
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How Flexjobs helped me become a working mom (Flexjobs.com)
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How I'm using Shoeboxed to travel the world (Shoeboxed Blog, as Rebekah Voss)
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Solo female travel in Asia: A quick and dirty guide (Just a Pack, as Rebekah Voss)
Playwriting and screenwriting
Plays
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Productions:
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Regional premiere production @ Wild Imaginings Theatre Company (November 2024, Waco, TX)
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World Premiere production @ Kith & Kin Theatre Collective (April 2024, Milwaukee, WI)
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Staged readings:
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Staged reading @ Special Interest Theater (Sept 2025, Minneapolis, MN)
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Staged reading @ Epiphanies New Works Festival (Oct 2023, Waco, TX,)
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Staged reading @ Cincinnati LAB New Works Festival (July, 2023)
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Staged reading @ Sunstone Studios (World Premiere Wisconsin, May 2023)
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Shorts and one acts
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My Imaginary Lover
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Top 10% finalist, Forward Theatre Monologue Festival, Madison, WI, 2025
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The Pharmacy
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Production @ Plastic Flamingo Theatre Company, New York, 2011
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Drinking Games
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Production @ The Lillian Theatre, Los Angeles, 2011
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Miami Commute
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Production @ University of Miami, Coral Gables, 2006
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Perfect Match
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Production @ University of Miami, Coral Gables, 2006
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Screenplays
Books
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The 23rd Hero: a novel
An ordinary woman with an extraordinary memory travels back in time to sixteenth-century France to stop climate change before it starts and return to the man she loves.
In the near future, the world is desperate for a hero. On the verge of being forced to live in underground bunkers due to climate crisis, an ordinary woman with an extraordinary memory is recruited for a time travel program to stop environmental disasters before they happen.
But when she falls in love with the program's mysterious founder, she must learn to believe in herself and her abilities before she's sent to sixteenth-century France with no way to save the world or return to the man she loves.
"A page-turning, wild, and marvelous ride." — Susan Choi, Booker Prize finalist, Pulitzer Prize finalist, winner of the National Book Award for Trust Exercise.
Where War Ends: A Combat Veteran's 2,700-Mile Journey to Heal
After serving in a scout/sniper platoon in Mosul, Tom Voss came home carrying invisible wounds of war — the memory of doing or witnessing things that went against his fundamental beliefs. This was not a physical injury that could heal with medication and time but a “moral injury” — a wound to the soul that eventually urged him toward suicide.
Desperate for relief from the pain and guilt that haunted him, Voss embarked on a 2,700-mile journey across America, walking with a fellow veteran from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to the Pacific Ocean. Readers walk with these men as they meet fellow veterans and Native American healers.
At the end of their riveting journey, Voss realizes he is really just beginning his healing. He pursues meditation training and discovers sacred breathing techniques that shatter his understanding of war and himself, and move him from despair to hope. Voss’s story will give inspiration to veterans, their friends and family, and survivors of all kinds.
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