creative nonfiction
Notable Essay citation
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Notable Essay citation
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“Imaginary Friends” (with Stephen D. Gutierrez),
They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing,
edited by Simone Muench, Dean Rader, Sally Ashton, and Jackie K. White
(Pittsburgh, PA: Black Lawrence Press, forthcoming summer 2018)
"Family Pictures," The Gettysburg Review (Summer 2017), vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 285-293
“Saving Trees” (reprint), Rooted: The Best New Arboreal Nonfiction,
edited by Josh MacIvor-Anderson (San Francisco: Outpost 19, 2017) (.pdf)
“Fireflies,” Superstition Review (Spring 2017), issue 19
“Long Distance,” Under the Gum Tree, forthcoming
“Saving Trees,” Catamaran Literary Reader (Summer 2016), issue 14, pp. 23-25
“What Did You Say?,” Electric Literature (August 5, 2016)
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Pushcart nomination
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“A Eulogy, Despite,” Full Grown People (April 14, 2016)
"Phantom Doorbells," Bluestem Quarterly (December 2015)
"The Ruby Slippers," Ghost Town (2015), issue 8
"Discovering My Gall Bladder," Under the Sun (2015), issue 3
"Imaginary Friends" (with Stephen D. Gutierrez),
Grist: The Journal for Writers (2015), Online Companion, Issue 8
"The Tyranny of Things" (reprint), LitRagger (February 24, 2015)
Featured in "Women We Read This Week," Vela Magazine (March 6, 2015)
"Requiem for a Marriage," Lunch Ticket (Winter/Spring 2015), issue 6
Finalist, Diana Woods Memorial Award for Creative Nonfiction
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"Kaleidoscope for Maddy," Cold Mountain Review (Fall 2014), vol. 43, no, 1, pp. 54-66
"Unreal," Waccamaw: A Journal of Contemporary Literature (Fall 2014), issue 13
"Mary Magdalene's Tibia," Southern Humanities Review (Fall 2014), vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 23-38
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Southern Humanities Review (excerpt)
Pushcart nomination
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Finalist, Diana Woods Memorial Award for Creative Nonfiction
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"Dancing in Circles" (reprint), The Manifest-Station (November 8, 2014)
"The Way I Remember It," Switchback (Fall 2014), issue 20
“Diaspora,” Reed (2014), vol. 67, pp. 178-184
"Solitaire," Willow Review (2014), vol. XLI, pp. 43-50
(Winner of Willow Review Award)
“The Museum of Insignificant Things,” The Tusculum Review (2014), vol. 10, pp. 27-32
“Traces of a Life,” Kestrel (Fall 2013), issue 31, pp. 44-52
“Who’s Your Stepdaddy?,” Jabberwock Review (Winter 2014), vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 36-50;
Named a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2015, edited by Ariel Levy
(New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015)
“The Girl Who Died,” Southern Indiana Review (Fall 2013), vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 85-92
"Doorbells," South Loop Review: Creative Nonfiction + Art (Fall 2013), vol. 15, pp. 89-94
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by South Loop Review
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Notable Essay, Best American Essays 2015
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“Jack-in-the-Box" (reprint), Birkensnake (2013), vol. 6 (“Thing Theory”), pp. 45-47
“Home Cooking,” Under the Gum Tree (Fall 2013), issue 9, pp. 90-93
"The Writer's Romance with Alcohol," The Writing Disorder (Summer 2013)
"Meeting the Virgin Mary," Frontiers (2013), vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 114-23
"Pandora's Box," New Plains Review (Spring 2013), vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 129-33
"Famous Writers Groups," The Dr. T.J Eckleburg Review (April 26, 2013);
reprint The Dr. T. J. Eckleburg Review (2015), issue 19
"Meta-Fictional Pasta," Thin Air Magazine (Spring 2013), vol. 19, pp. 60-70
"Nineteen Ways of Looking at an Essay," Ninth Letter (online), November 2012
Co-winner of the Ninth Letter “Study Questions” Contest, judged by Patrick Madden
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"Jack-in-the-Box," Otoliths (Southern Spring 2012), issue 27
"Left," Tidal Basin Review (Summer 2012), pp. 10-13
"The Tyranny of Things," South Dakota Review (Spring 2012), vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 83-89;
Named a “Notable Essay” in Best American Essays 2013, edited by Cheryl Strayed
(New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013)
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Notable Essay Best American Essays 2013
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"Dancing in Circles," The William and Mary Review (2012), vol. 50, pp. 44-49
"Dutch Double," Rio Grande Review (Spring 2012), issue 39, pp. 53-64
"Setting the Scene, or Two Authors in Search of a Character and Some Action,"
Prick of the Spindle (September 2011), vol. 5, no. 3
“Dwellings,” Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal (July-August 2011), vol. 40, no. 5, pp. 672-79
"Remembering Mahalia," Blood Orange Review (Summer 2011), vol. 6, no. 2
"Adventure," Hamilton Stone Review (Summer 2011), issue 24
"Sick," Pear Noir! (Winter 2011), issue 5, pp. 73-78
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Craft and Author Essays
"Teaching The Latin Deli in the Age of Trump," Judith Ortiz Cofer Forum,
a/b: Auto/Biography Studies (Winter 2018), vol. 33, issue 1, forthcoming
"Shuffling the Cards: I Think Back Through Judith Ortiz Cofer,"
Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies (Fall 2017), vol. 4, issue 1, forthcoming
Supplementary Materials (background and writing prompts) for
Rooted: The Best New Arboreal Nonfiction,
edited by Josh MacIvor-Anderson (San Francisco: Outpost 19, 2017)
(my prompt for my essay "Saving Trees")
"Flash, Back: Revisiting Jayne Anne Phillips," SmokeLong Quarterly (September 28, 2016)
"It's a Wonder: On Sara Levine & the Touchstone Anthology," Essay Daily (October 6, 2014)
Author Interview
"'Story as Sacrament': An Interview with Dorothy Allison,
Arroyo Literary Review (Spring 2010), vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 47-63
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