Selected publications

pieces I wrote & where they live in the wild

Short stories

Adrift in case of apocalypse in a house boat: Conjunctions | Ararat Tiny Boats
A girl, a town, a whale: Columbia Review | The Whale Did Not Seem to Be a Warning
Christmas slides into the sinister: Funicular | Ornaments Tinkle in an Icicle Wind
Niagara Falls and one hot moonshot of a summer: The Fourth River | When the Moon Couldn’t Cork a Barrel
A wounded vulture tries to fly: Image | It Is Possible to Give a Vulture Too Large a Task
A Mississippi summer spent with a heat gun: Arkansas Review | The Intermezzo
A different kind of priest, a different kind of longing: Harvard Review | Justin
Eggs and rage: The Arkansas Review | Swamp Tide
Stuffed, drowning, chin held up: The Michigan Review | A Handful of Women: Recipes for the New World

Rainfall, a tarp, the slow persistence of starvation: New Mexico Review | The Ribs That March Forward Through the Skin
Detroit, pork, capoeira, sugar, abandoned buildings and ideas that should be abandoned: The Account | The Paris of the West
Letting a mosquito bite you on purpose: Humanosphere article | Infectious hope: when getting malaria makes sense

Questioning God: Blackbird | Agnostic Wandering + Old Spice & Cordite
Summer popsicles and general stickiness: Mojave River Review | We Both Like to Stick Our Heads In + Everything Pointed South + Put Your Will in Your Boots
Death and horses: West Trade Review | Reach out <hard stop>
Bones and wild things: DIAGRAM | Watchtower (excerpt)
Ends, beginnings, and sand: Sediments Literary Arts Journal | Something Like This Every Night
A dance over deep-water notes: Blackbird | The Honky-Tonk Blues Bar
Sweat, metal, will: Stirring | Bandita
Chocolate and the things we choke down: Beloit Journal of Poetry | Seedpods ‘Longside Flowers

When a pillow is cold comfort: Verbalists performance of the short story The Pillow Watch
Chicken fat and hummingbirds: Drunken Telegraph performance The Hidden People in the Chicken Factory