Publications

Full-Length Works

The Cry of the Narcissist (Novel-in-Progress)

Vanguard: Creative Writing Exercises for the Classroom. Texas Tech Press, 2019. (Co-Editor)

Fiction

“The Pet,” The Iowa Review, December 2019.

Moving Out,” Midway Journal, October 2018. (Winner of Midway Journal’s -1000 Below: Flash Prose and Poetry Contest)

“Transference,” Michigan Quarterly Review, Vol 57, No. 4, October 2018.

“Mothlight,” Arkansas International, No. 5, September 2018.

“The Press,” The Fiddlehead, May 2018. (Winner of 2018 Fiddlehead Contest for Short Fiction)

“Story, Baby,” Big Muddy, February 2018. (Winner of 2017 Wilda Hearne Flash Fiction Award)

“Witness.” Post Road, December 2017.

“How I Met my Second Husband.” Fiction International, October 2017.

“Sinkhole.” Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, July 2017.

“Monstrous Beings Through Time.” Ninth Letter (online), July 2017.

“Le Problem Being.” The Chicago Tribune (online and print). *First place in Nelson Algren Literary Prize

“Unity Orders.” F(r)iction, June 2017. Reprinted in WAVES: A Room of One’s Own Anthology. (Forthcoming). *First place in 2016 F(r)iction Fiction Prize.

“Cats Looking Out Windows.” Passages North Bonus Online Content, December 2016.

“Diurnal.” Passages North Bonus Online Content, December 2016.

“A Sad Story.” Passages North Bonus Online Content, December 2016.

“Scott.” The Best Australian Stories. November, 2012. First published in Hide Your Fires, May 2012.

“Loving Partner.” Visible Ink, RMIT University. 2010.

“Puzzle.” Windmills, Deakin University. 2010.

“The Mission.” Blue Crow Magazine. April, 2010.

Nonfiction (Travel, Essays, Journalism)

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Stalker,” Shenandoah, Dec 2018. (Notable Essay in Best American Essays, 2019)

Fashion and science articles for Lubbock Magazine, June 2017-present.

“Rudd’s Three Red Threads,” Overland (online), March 2010. (Political Commentary)

“My Father’s Land,” YMI Magazine, January 2006. (Travel Article)

Nonfiction (Reviews)

Sonata in K, by Karen An-hwei Lee,” Colorado Review (online), August 2018.

“Love Bytes: Techno-Romance from Alissa Nutting,” Kenyon Review Online, March 2018.

“The Unbroken Line: Yya Gyasi’s Homegoing,” Kenyon Review Online, June 2017. (Reprinted in Contemporary African American Fiction, Vol 1. Ed. Harold Bloom. Chelsea House. February 2019.)

“On The Unfinished World and Other Stories, by Amber Sparks,” Kenyon Review Online. January 2017.

Best Small Fictions 2016,” Colorado Review (online), December 2016.

Holy Heathen Rhapsody, by Pattiann Rogers,” Archivation Exploration, June 2016.