Publications & Awards

My short stories have appeared or will appear in Ploughshares, Copper Nickel, Washington Square Review, Waxwing Magazine, Electric Literature, Guernica, Slice Magazine, Denver Quarterly, Mississippi Review online, Wigleaf, Smokelong Quarterly, F(r)riction, New South, Quick Fiction and elsewhere. My work has also been chosen for anthologies such as Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018, The Norton Reader, W. W. Norton’s New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction, the forthcoming Flash Fiction America (W. W. Norton), five volumes of Best Small Fictions, and many other anthologies and creative writing textbooks.

Recent Publications

“Chicago” (780 words) in Wigleaf, April, 2022 + postcard (finalist, Mythic Picnic contest) Nominated for Pushcart Prize

“You Were Only Waiting for this Moment to Arrive” (500 words) in Ghost Parachute, May, 2022 Nominated for Pushcart Prize

“February 25th, 2012” (625 words) in Past Ten, February, 2022

“Taoism” (290 words) in The Bureau Dispatch, January, 2022

“some hard, hot places” (744 words) Ploughshares, 50th Anniversary Issue, Summer 2021 (Aimee Bender, Guest Editor) *This story has been selected for inclusion in Flash Fiction America, forthcoming in 2022, W. W. Norton, Sherrie Flick & James Thomas (eds.) as well as Best Small Fictions, 2022.

“A Solid Contribution” (297 words) in Milk Candy Review Nominated for Best Microfiction

“Rodney & Chelsea” originally published in 2014 in Blip Magazine (later, New World Writing) reprinted in Fractured Lit

“Unfettered and Alive”(956 words) Waxwing Magazine, Issue XXI, June 15, 2020 “Muriel’s Cyclone” (950 words) in Mom Egg Review, Riding the Dangerous Wind Folio, curated by Tara L. Masih, June 15, 2020 (Finalist, Best of the Net) “Today When I Asked You About a Couple We Knew in Canberra” (374 words) in Washington Square Review, Issue 45, Spring 2020 “Bear Walks into a Bar”(704 words) in Copper Nickel, Fall 2020 Winner, Copper Nickel Editors’ Prize “Talking About Ernie Banks,” originally published in FRiGG, was reprinted in Fractured Lit “Dalmatian,” “Warrior,” and “Searching for Samuel Beckett” were reprinted in the debut issue of Everyone Quarterly.

Awards

Copper Nickel Editors’ Prize

Ragdale Foundation Fellowship, 2020

Best Small Fictions 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022

Electric Literature Recommended Reading 300th Anniversary Issue (with Lydia Davis & Amelia Gray)

Best of the Net Finalist, 2017, 2020

Wigleaf Top 50 & Longlist (multiple)

Textbooks & Anthologies

The Norton Reader, 15th Edition (W.W. Norton)

Flash Fiction America (forthcoming, W. W. Norton)

Literature: A Portable Anthology (Macmillan)

Advanced Creative Nonfiction (Bloomsbury)

New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction (W.W. Norton)

Flash Fiction Funny (W.W. Norton)

Short-Form Creative Writing: A Writer’s Guide & Anthology (Bloomsbury)

Best Small Fictions 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020

Critical Insights: Flash Fiction (Salem Press)

Pocket Guide to Flash Fiction (Matter Press)

The Lineup: 20 Provocative Women Writers (Black Lawrence Press)

Choose Wisely: 35 Women Up to No Good (Upper Rubber Boot Books)

Humans in the Wild: Reactions to a Gun Loving Country (Swallow Publishing)