Publications

BOOKS

 

Daughters of Chaos

Abrams Books, the Overlook Press                                        July 9, 2024

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Tales the Devil Told Me

Press 53                                                                                        Oct 5, 2021

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Mannequin and Wife: Stories
Louisiana State University Press                                            Sept 2, 2020

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"Tigers Don't Apologize"

Available from Amazon        fall 2014

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"Mastermind"

Available from One Story        fall 2013

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SHORT FICTION

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"Twelve Steps in the Hundred Acre Wood"

hex        February 2024

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"Tiny Bones"

Vol. 1 Brooklyn        October 2021    

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"The Tragedie of Claudius, Prince of Denmark" (excerpt)

The Offing        October 2021

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"Danny"

The Rumpus        October 2021

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"Sometimes, They Kill Each Other" (excerpt)

Lit Hub         September 2020

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"Dear Delores Dale"

Best Small Fictions        September 2020

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"Flight of the Businessman"

The Rumpus        August 2020

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"As You Can Imagine, This Makes Dating Difficult"
The Pinch 40.1 – Winner Fiction Prize 2019        spring 2020
 

“We Can Learn from the Sawhorse”
Atticus Review – Winner Third Prize 2019 Flash Fiction Contest        fall 2019
 

“Mannequin and Wife”
Harpur Palate 19.1 – Winner John Gardner Memorial Fiction Prize 2019        fall 2019

“Possible Wildlife in Road”
storySouth        fall 2019

“Dear Delores Dale”
Pidgeonholes        fall 2019

 

“Breach”
Jellyfish Review         fall 2019

“A Moment on the Lips”
NonBinary Review        fall 2019

“Options Counseling”
SFWP Quarterly        summer 2019

“Come Back, Rita”
Sequestrum 14        spring 2018

“Dynamics”
Jersey Devil Press 92        fall 2017

“Victoria”
Joyland        spring 2015

“Come Back, Rita”
Crazyhorse 86        fall 2014

“Tigers Don’t Apologize”
Amazon’s Day One        fall 2014

“Burro”
Mid-American Review 35.1        fall 2014

“Insight”
Blue Earth Review 13 – 2014 Flash Fiction Contest winner        fall 2014

“Well-built Men, 18 to 30, Who Would Like to Be Eaten by Me”
Blue Earth Review 13 – 2014 Flash Contest winner        fall 2014

“Mastermind”
One Story #186        winter 2013/14

“Iphigenia in Baltimore”
Salamander 19.1 – 2013 Fiction Prize winner – nominated for Pushcart Prize        winter 2013/14

“Rebirth of the Big Top”
The Iowa Review 43:2 – nominated for Pushcart Prize        fall 2013

“By the Numbers”
Washington Square 32 – 2013 Flash Fiction Award winner        summer/fall 2013

“Never, Never”
Michigan Quarterly Review 52:1        winter 2013

“Demerol, Demerol, Benzedrine, Schnaps”
The Massachusetts Review 53:3        fall 2012

“A Moment on the Lips”
Tampa Review 43/44        summer/fall 2012

“Tiny Bones”
Mid-American Review 32.1        spring 2012

“Hobbled”
The Southeast Review 30.1         winter/spring 2012

“Chrysalis”
The Southeast Review 30.1        winter/spring 2012

“Sometimes, They Kill Each Other”
Barrelhouse 10 – nominated for Pushcart Prize        winter 2012

“Dear Ahab”
The Southeast Review 29.1        winter/spring 2011

“No Fun Anymore”
Berkeley Fiction Review 29 – nominated for Pushcart Prize        spring 2009

 

 

NONFICTION
 

“Chaos is my Co-Pilot"

Lit Hub        July 2024

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The Plotinus by Rikki Ducornet (book review)       

Necessary Fiction        July 2023

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"What to Read When the Story Refuses to End"

The Rumpus        Sept 2021

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Trafik by Rikki Ducornet (book review)

Necessary Fiction        May 2021

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"How to Write Mannequin and Wife"

Necessary Fiction        March 2021

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Machines of Another Era by Bess Winter (book review)

Necessary Fiction        Jan 2021

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"What to Read When You Suspect that Time is Not a Line"

The Rumpus        August 2020

 

"Pitch, Roll, Yaw"
Dogwood Issue 16        spring 2017

 

“Not a Love Story”
Miracle Monocle Issue 9        spring 2017

“Best of the Best . . . By a Country Mile”
Shenandoah 60:1-2         spring/summer 2010