Publications & Awards

BOA Editions • May 2019 • Short story collection The Rapture Index, winner of BOA’s 7th annual Short Fiction Prize and longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection and the Short Story Prize

New Ohio Review • Fall/Winter 2025 • Short story “The Dans”

West Branch • Spring/Summer 2023 • Short story “Keeping Track” (mentioned in Best American Short Stories 2024 100 Notable Stories)

Ninth Letter • Spring/Summer 2023 • Short story “You Move I Move We Move They Move”

Vestal Review • December 2023 • Micro story “Some Things the Mud Witch Would Like You to Know”

Fractured Lit • April 2021 • Micro story “The Taxidermist and the Baker” chosen by Sian Griffiths as the winner of their 2020 micro fiction prize

Quarter After Eight • February 2021 • Flash piece “Ghost Story Inventory” chosen by Dinty W. Moore as the winner of the 2020 Robert J. DeMott Short Prose Contest

Witness • November 2020 • Short story “Talk with Stranger” in Fall/Winter 2020, nominated for a Pushcart Prize

Mid-American Review • January 2020 • Prose poem “Advice for Eating an Animal” in winter issue

The Florida Review • December 2019 • Short story “Next Best” in winter issue

Literary Hub • June 2019 • Essay “The Weirdness, Wonder, and Terror of the Contemporary Zoo”

Mississippi Review • June 2019 • Short story “The Holy Shiver,” finalist for the 2019 Mississippi Review Prize and published in summer issue

Ploughshares blog • February 17, 2019 • Critical essay “The Tent Moment”

Gulf Coast • Spring 2017 • Short story “Fall From Grace,” honorable mention in the 2016 Barthelme Contest 

The Normal School • Spring 2017 • Short story “Adventures in Wildlife” 

The Masters’ Review • Fall 2016 online • Short story “The First Location,” third place in the 2016 Emerging Writers Contest 

Orison Books Anthology • 2016 • Short story “Permutations of A” reprinted in the inaugural anthology 

The Pinch • Spring 2016 • Short story “Happy You’re Here,” chosen as the winner of The Pinch’s 2016 Literary Awards

Crazyhorse • Winter 2015 • Short story “Permutations of A” 

The Collagist • September 2014 • Short story “3D Printing: A Love Story” 

TriQuarterly • Summer/Fall 2014  • Short story “Apocalypso” 

The Literary Review • Winter 2013 • Short story “Dog Story” 

Indiana Review • Fall 2012 • Short story “A Suburban Bestiary” 

The Literary Review • Winter 2011 • Short story “Narrow Salvation” 

Matter journal • 2011 • Short story “Hummingbird Attack,” winner of the 2011 Matter Journal Award for Fiction

The Grove Review • Fall 2010 • Short story “Breaking Glass”

Redivider • Spring 2010 • Short story “The Rapture Index” 

NPR  • July 2009 • Short story “Not That I Care,” winner of NPR’s first Three-Minute Fiction Contest, chosen by James Wood

Pear Noir! • January 2009 • Short story “A Body Could Apart”