SHORT FICTION
“Clown School,” SAND Online, August 2023. (Winner of the Berlin Writing Prize 2022.)
“How to Walk on Water,” Love in the Time of Time’s Up, edited by Christine Sneed, Tortoise Books, October 2022.
“Little Free Library,” Story, Summer 2022.
Excerpt from “The Only Thing Missing Was the Howling of Wolves,” Mayday, February 16, 2021.
“For Sale: Spacious 2BDR, Great Views, Ornery Ghost,” excerpt from How to Walk on Water, with an introduction by Caitlin Horrocks in Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, October 2020.
“Boys on a Veranda,” excerpt from How to Walk on Water, Literary Hub, October 2020.
“A Habit of Seeing,” Fifth Wednesday Journal, 25th Anniversary Issue, Spring 2017. (Listed as an “Other Distinguished Story” in The Best American Short Stories 2018, edited by Roxane Gay and Heidi Pitlor.)
“Valentine’s Day,” Recorder Magazine, February 2017.
“Advice for the Haunted,” VICE Magazine, November 2015.
“How to Walk on Water,” The Missouri Review, Spring 2015.
–“How to Walk on Water” received the 2014 Jeffrey E Smith Missouri Review Prize in Fiction.
“Drone,” Black Warrior Review, Spring/Summer 2015.
“Mitz’s Theory of Everything Series,” New Stories from the Midwest 2013.
“The Night Between Us,” American Short Fiction, Fall 2013. (Plus, accompanying ASF web feature on vintage postcards and childhood.)
“The Only Thing Missing Was the Howling of Wolves,” Kenyon Review, Summer 2013.
“Edith Under the Streetlight,” The Massachusetts Review, Winter 2012.
“Boys on a Veranda,” Connecticut Review, Summer 2012.
“Mitz’s Theory of Everything Series,” Agni, Vol. 74, 2011.
“Felina,” Mississippi Review, Vol. 38, No. 3, 2011. (2011 Mississippi Review Prize in Fiction. “Special Mention” in The Pushcart Prize XXXVII: Best of the Small Presses.)
“At the Bottom of the River of Unsung Heroes” and “This World is Not Conclusion,” Quarter After Eight, Volume XVII, 2011.
“Shoreward,” Witness, Volume XXIV, 2011.
“Castelo dos Mouros,” Flyway, Volume 13.1, 2010.
“Woman in Blue, 1919,” The Literary Review, Summer 2010.
“Notes to a Shadowy Man,” Cimarron Review, Summer 2009.
“Strangers Among Us,” The Missouri Review, Spring 2007.