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Publications:
• "Taste," Kenyon Review, Fall 2023
• "America America," The Sun, December 2021
• "Lovers," descant Issue #60
• "Other People's Luck," Saturday Evening Post
• "Way of the Dog," Post Road Issue #38
• "My Neighbors," Electric Literature's The Commuter, September 2019
• "Borders and Crossings," New England Review, Vol. 39.4 (Cited as a "Distinguished Story" in Best American Short Stories 2019)
• "Learned Paralysis," Southern Humanities Review, Issue 52.1
• "The Flight of Mary Todd Lincoln," J Journal: New Writing on Justice, fall 2018
• "City of Foundlings," The Rumpus
• "People Like Me," Day One, Issue 4.52
• "Waiting for Andromeda," Crazyhorse, Issue 91, spring 2017
• "Children of the Bomb," The Chicago Tribune Printers Row Journal, Issue #192
• "Healing Pain," The Literary Review, summer 2015
• "Oklahoma City," Notre Dame Review, Issue 37, March 2014
• "Epcot Center, August '88," Blackbird, spring 2014
• "Found Peoples," The Cincinnati Review, winter 2013
• "Timeshare," Passages North, Issue 35.1 (nominated for Pushcart Prize)
• "Light Cycles," Epoch, Volume 62, Number 2, 2013
• “The Angola Prison Rodeo,” Cream City Review, fall 2013
• “The House Girl,” Callaloo, Volume 35, Number 4, 2013
• “Sundowning,” Narrative Magazine, spring 2012
• “Forgotten Universe,” Copper Nickel, Issue 17, January 2012
• “Home and Other Places we Left,” Sou’wester, fall 2012
• “Here and Forgotten,” Los Angeles Review, February 2012
• "First Impressions,"The Brooklyner, August 2011
• “Role Play,” The Southeast Review, Volume 29.2, spring 2011 (nominated for Pushcart Prize)
• “Doesn’t Pay to be a Cowboy,” Beloit Fiction Journal, spring 2011
• “You are not Magellan,” New World Writing (formerly MississippiReview.com), January 2011
• “The Letter Writer,” The Briar Cliff Review, 2011
• “The View of Heaven from the Moon,” Hobart #12, 2011
• “Human Resources,” Slush Pile, 2010
• “The Good Death,” Storyglossia, Issue #41 2010
• “Intangible Objects,” Trans-Lit, September 2010
• "Gun Country,” Berkeley Fiction Review, Issue 30, May 2010
• “Cancer Love,” Word Riot, July, 2008
• “Big Girl,” Our Stories, March, 2008
Awards:
• New England Review Emerging Writer Award Finalist, 2019
• Elizabeth George Foundation grant, 2015
• Writer-in-Residence at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, 2012
• Finalist in American Short Fiction contest, 2012
• Honorable Mention in Zoetrope: All-Story 2011 fiction contest
• Finalist in the Narrative Magazine “30 Below” competition, 2011
• Finalist in the Copper Nickel 2011 fiction competition
• Finalist in Summer Literary Seminars 2011 fiction competition
• Finalist in the Narrative Magazine “30 Below” competition, 2010
• Finalist in the Glimmer Train “Family Matters” competition, 2009
• Finalist in the Narrative Magazine “30 Below” competition, 2008
• Woolrich Fellowship, Columbia University, 2007
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