Selected Prose

2022

• Epoch; “Thank God for Hysterical Mothers”

2021

• Currently emerging from an involuntary 2-year sabbatical to care for our three young children during COVID-19 school shutdowns.

2020

• LitMag; "Lines from Superhero Movies I've Seen"

• Mississippi Review; "Mothership"

2019

• The Fiddlehead; "The Dogcatcher of Oro Linda"

• Bennington Review; "Everybody Dies"; translated into Italian for Black Coffee Press as “Tutti Moriamo”

• War, Literature, & the Arts, Special Theme Issue: Home. "Soldier's Joy"

2018

• Michigan Quarterly Review; "Absolute Zero"

• The Rumpus; "Removed" (creative nonfiction)

• Cimarron Review; "Scattershot"

2017

• Necessary Fiction; "For Science"—a Longform fiction pick of the week.

• StoryQuarterly 50th Issue; "Song for Unbelievers"—a 2016 StoryQuarterly Fiction Prize runner-up

• Split Lip Magazine FAM Issue; "They Call Them Budding Toes"

• Barely South Review; "Frannie and Her Cello Get Jumped"

2016

• Front Porch Journal; "Melt"

• Joyland; "Vivisection"

• Green Mountains Review; "Vespers"

• The East Bay Review; "Model Home" —Nominated for a 2016 Pushcart Prize.

• Blunderbuss Magazine; "Structural Integrity" (also featured in translation in the Swedish journal of prose, Kapitel Magazine)

• Slice Magazine; "Marginalia" (Issue 18)

2015 & 2014

• The Adirondack Review; "When You Hear the Call of the Lotto Man" — runner-up for the Fulton Prize for Short Fiction

• Pithead Chapel; "Tinge" (V4, Issue 11)

• Split Lip Magazine; "Of Two Minds" (Issue 14) — a Longform pick for Best of 2015 in Fiction; Finalist for a 2015 Best of the Net award

• Reed Magazine; "Minor Atrocities" (Issue 68)

• Crack the Spine; "We Are All So Young and Lively" (Issue 148)

• Bartleby Snopes; "Necrotic Zone"

• Sakura Review; "Rupture" (Issue 5)

Essays / Craft Writing

• Reading into a Writer's Life: James Carver Wants to Set Some Things Straight About His Brother Raymond; Carve Magazine blog.

• How to Write Killer Endings; Carve Magazine blog.

• Five Ways to Stand Out in the Slush Pile (Without Gimmicks); Carve Magazine blog.

• How to Write When You Feel Like You Can't; Carve Magazine blog.

• Tell Me More: Creating Suspense with Information; Carve Magazine blog.

• 3 Rules to Writing Commanding Sex Scenes; Carve Magazine blog.

Interviews/Awards

• 2018 New American Fiction Prize — finalist, short-story collection.

• 2017 The Pinch Literary Contest — 2nd runner-up

• 2016 StoryQuarterly Fiction Prize — 2nd runner-up, judge Alexander Chee

• Best of 2015 in Fiction on Longform.org

• The Fulton Prize for Short Fiction at The Adirondack Review — runner-up (2015)

• Pushcart Prize — nominee (2016)

• storySouth Million Writers Award — nominee (2016)

• Best of the Net 2015, Sundress Publications — finalist

• Carve Magazine's First Annual Blog Contest — Winner (October 2015)

• Crack the Spine: Wordsmith Interview, May 15, 2015

• Longform Fiction Pick of the Week (April 2015)

• Katherine Anne Porter Fiction Prize at UMD — Honorable Mentions (2010, 2011)