Selected Publications

Short Fiction
“Wild Wild Wolves,” Southern Humanities Review
“Black Box,” Michigan Quarterly Review // Listen to me read an excerpt online!
“Alternative Facts,” Santa Monica Review
“From the Eyes of Travelers,” The Greensboro Review
“Delivery,” Witness Magazine // Listen to me read an excerpt online!
“Houston, We've Had a Problem,” Chicago Quarterly Review
“Tonight Show,” J Journal
“Fortune,” FOLIO

Novella
“Dancing with the Tsars,” Big Fiction

Literary Essay
“Lost In the Desert of the Real,” The Iowa Review

Humor
“What to Do When Your Screaming Autocrat Won’t Leave the White House,” Weekly Humorist
“Dear Big Bird,” The Cornell Daily Sun

Anthologies
“Houston, We’ve Had a Problem,” New Stories from the Midwest 2021, Tenth Anniversary Edition, Editor: Michael Martone,
New American Press

Arts Writing
“On Exactitude in Science,” you are here: the journal of creative geography // Read complete issue here!
“Housewarming: Notions of Home from the Center of the Universe,” BRIC Arts (Co-author)

WRITING Honors+Awards

Runner-Up, Acacia Fiction Prize, Kallisto Gaia Press, 2023
Special Mention, Pushcart Prize XLVII, 2023
Honorable Mention, Kurt Vonnegut Speculative Fiction Prize, Judge: Brian Evenson, 2023
Finalist, Katherine Anne Porter Prize, University of North Texas Press, 2021
Finalist, Iron Horse Prize, Texas Tech University Press, 2021
Runner-Up, Short Fiction Prize, BOA Editions, 2021
Special Mention, Pushcart Prize XLV, 2021
Winner, Witness Literary Award in Fiction, Judge: Kristen Arnett, 2020
Best of 2020, The Weekly Humorist, 2020
Shortlist, Disquiet International Literary Prize - Fiction, 2019
Shortlist, Disquiet International Literary Prize - Nonfiction, 2019
3rd place, Fiction Open, Glimmer Train, 2018
Runner-Up, Editor's Prize Fiction, FOLIO, 2018
The M.H. Abrams Thesis Prize, Department of English, Cornell University, 2014