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​Publications:

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"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

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"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

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"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 NickelIssue 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
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• “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
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• Elizabeth George Foundation grant, 2015
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• Writer-in-Residence at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, 2012
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• 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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