creative nonfiction
NOTABLE ESSAY citation (essay in Superstition Review)
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NOTABLE ESSAY citation
(essay in Passages North)
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NOTABLE ESSAY citation
(essay in Ghost Proposal)
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NOTABLE ESSAY citation
(essay in New Ohio Review)
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NOTABLE ESSAY citation (essay in The Gettysburg Review)
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NOTABLE ESSAY citation
(essay in Full Grown People)
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NOTABLE ESSAY citation
(essay in Jabberwock Review)
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NOTABLE ESSAY citation
(essay in South Dakota Review)
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Anthologies
“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 (New York: Black Lawrence Press, 2018)
order from Black Lawrence Press, your indie bookseller, or Amazon
“Saving Trees,” Rooted: The Best New Arboreal Nonfiction, edited by Josh MacIvor-Anderson (San Francisco: Outpost 19, 2017)
order from Outpost 19, your indie bookseller, or Amazon
Awards and Nominations
Notable Essay Citation, Best American Essays 2022, edited by Alexander Chee
Notable Essay Citation, Best American Essays 2021, edited by Kathryn Schulz
Notable Essay Citation, Best American Essays 2020, edited by André Aciman
Notable Essay Citation, Best American Essays 2019, edited by Rebecca Solnit
Notable Essay Citation, Best American Essays 2018, edited by Hilton Als
Notable Essay Citation, Best American Essays 2017, edited by Leslie Jamison
Notable Essay Citation, Best American Essays 2015, edited by Ariel Levy
Notable Essay Citation, Best American Essays 2013, edited by Cheryl Strayed
Pushcart Prize nomination, The Gettysburg Review, 2018
Pushcart Prize nomination, Southern Humanities Review, 2014
Pushcart Prize nomination, South Loop Review, 2013
PUSHCART PRIZE nomination; NOTABLE ESSAY in BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2018
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NOTABLE ESSAY in BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2017
NOTABLE ESSAY in BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2022
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published by Black Lawrence Press
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2023
"Cross-Stitching," EPOCH (print)
"Dear Mary Todd Lincoln," The Pinch (print)
2022
"Cutting Edge," Permafrost
(featured in "Memoir Monday" newsletter)
"What Grows on Trees," Current
2021
"The Dream Lives of Objects," Superstition Review
craft talk on "The Dream Lives of Objects," Superstition Review virtual launch (youtube video, talk starts at 9:51)
Notable Essay listing in Best American Essays 2022, edited by Alexander Chee
"Midcentury Modern," Catapult
"Forgotten Cities," The Café Irreal
"Cross-Stitching," EPOCH (print)
"Dear Mary Todd Lincoln," The Pinch (print)
2022
"Cutting Edge," Permafrost
(featured in "Memoir Monday" newsletter)
"What Grows on Trees," Current
2021
"The Dream Lives of Objects," Superstition Review
craft talk on "The Dream Lives of Objects," Superstition Review virtual launch (youtube video, talk starts at 9:51)
Notable Essay listing in Best American Essays 2022, edited by Alexander Chee
"Midcentury Modern," Catapult
"Forgotten Cities," The Café Irreal
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NOTABLE ESSAY in BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2021
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NOTABLE ESSAY in BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2022
2020
"Last Medley," Atticus Review
"On Being Told That Her First Husband," Fourth Genre (print)
“Madeline’s Trunk,” Passages North (print)
Notable Essay listing in Best American Essays 2021, edited by Kathryn Schulz
2019
"Octopus Dreams," Rappahannock Review
contributor spotlight
"The Lunatics' Ball," F(r)iction (print and online)
"Visitations," Ghost Proposal (no longer online)
Notable Essay listing in Best American Essays 2020, edited by André Aciman
"My Mother's Suitcases," The Nasiona Magazine
featured on Nasiona podcast: “On Daughterhood”
2018
"Ugly Shoes," Barren Magazine
“On Foot,” SleazeMag (no longer online)
"Another Mary Doyle," Under the Sun
"Some Things I Forgot," Zone 3 (print)
“Haunting Houses,” NOR: New Ohio Review (print and online)
Notable Essay listing in Best American Essays 2019, edited by Rebecca Solnit
included in supplemental reading list in anthology Essay Form(s), edited by Jill Talbot (Columbia University Press, 2023)
2017
“Long Distance,” Under the Gum Tree (print)
"Family Pictures," The Gettysburg Review (print)
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by The Gettysburg Review
Notable Essay listing in Best American Essays 2018, edited by Hilton Als
“Fireflies,” Superstition Review
Authors Talk podcast, Superstition Review blog
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NOTABLE ESSAY in BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2019
published by Outpost 19
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2016
“Saving Trees,” Catamaran Literary Reader (print)
“What Did You Say?,” Electric Literature
“A Eulogy, Despite,” Full Grown People
Notable Essay listing in Best American Essays 2017, edited by Leslie Jamison
2015
"Phantom Doorbells," Bluestem Quarterly
"The Ruby Slippers," Ghost Town
"Discovering My Gall Bladder," Under the Sun
"Imaginary Friends" (with Stephen D. Gutierrez), Grist: The Journal for Writers , Online Companion
"The Tyranny of Things" (reprint), LitRagger (no longer online)
Featured in "Women We Read This Week," Vela Magazine (March 6, 2015)
"Requiem for a Marriage," Lunch Ticket
Finalist, Diana Woods Memorial Award for Creative Nonfiction
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PUSHCART PRIZE nomination
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2014
"Kaleidoscope for Maddy," Cold Mountain Review (print)
"Unreal," Waccamaw: A Journal of Contemporary Literature
"Mary Magdalene's Tibia," Southern Humanities Review (print)
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Southern Humanities Review (excerpt)
“Who’s Your Stepdaddy?,” Jabberwock Review (print)
Notable Essay Listing in Best American Essays 2015, edited by Ariel Levy
"Kaleidoscope for Maddy," Cold Mountain Review (print)
"Unreal," Waccamaw: A Journal of Contemporary Literature
"Mary Magdalene's Tibia," Southern Humanities Review (print)
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Southern Humanities Review (excerpt)
“Who’s Your Stepdaddy?,” Jabberwock Review (print)
Notable Essay Listing in Best American Essays 2015, edited by Ariel Levy
PUSHCART PRIZE nomination
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Finalist, Diana Woods Memorial Award for Creative Nonfiction
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"Dancing in Circles" (reprint), The Manifest-Station
"The Way I Remember It," Switchback
“Diaspora,” Reed Magazine (print)
"Solitaire," Willow Review (print)
Winner of Willow Review Award
“The Museum of Insignificant Things,” The Tusculum Review (print)
2013
“Traces of a Life,” Kestrel (print and online)
“The Girl Who Died,” Southern Indiana Review (print)
"Doorbells," South Loop Review: Creative Nonfiction + Art (print)
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by South Loop Review
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NOTABLE ESSAY in BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2015
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“Jack-in-the-Box" (reprint), Birkensnake (“Thing Theory”)
“Home Cooking,” Under the Gum Tree (print)
"The Writer's Romance with Alcohol," The Writing Disorder
"Meeting the Virgin Mary," Frontiers (print)
"Pandora's Box," New Plains Review (print)
"Famous Writers Groups," The Dr. T.J Eckleburg Review ;
reprint The Dr. T. J. Eckleburg Review (2015)
"Meta-Fictional Pasta," Thin Air Magazine (print)
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2012
Nineteen Ways of Looking at an Essay," Ninth Letter (online)
Co-winner of the Ninth Letter “Study Questions” Contest, judged by Patrick Madden
"Jack-in-the-Box," Otoliths
"Left," Tidal Basin Review
"The Tyranny of Things," South Dakota Review (print)
Notable Essay listing in Best American Essays 2013, edited by Cheryl Strayed
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NOTABLE ESSAY in BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2013
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"Dancing in Circles," The William and Mary Review (print)
"Dutch Double," Rio Grande Review (print and issuu online)
2011
"Setting the Scene, or Two Authors in Search of a Character and Some Action," Prick of the Spindle
“Dwellings,” Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal (print)
"Remembering Mahalia," Blood Orange Review
"Adventure," Hamilton Stone Review
"Sick," Pear Noir! (print)
Otoliths
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Craft and Author Essays
2023
"On Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart,'" Scratch Classics (forthcoming)
Jacqueline Doyle: Adrienne Rich, AdrianKoesters.com
2022
"Interview with Ingrid Rojas Contreras," CRAFT Literary Journal
2021
"Nonfiction Explosions: The Best of Brevity," CRAFT Literary Journal
2020
"Interview with Joy Castro," CRAFT Literary Journal
2018
"The Story Behind the Story: 'Nadine's Broken Heart,'" Fiction Southeast
"Jacqueline Doyle on her Medusan Muses: Joyce Carol Oates, Jayne Anne Phillips, Sandra Cisneros, Toni Morrison, Hélène Cixous," Many Gendered Mothers
“Plots are for Dead People,” Bending Genres (MicroViews blog)
"Teaching The Latin Deli in the Age of Trump," Judith Ortiz Cofer Forum, a/b: Auto/Biography Studies (print)
2017
"Shuffling the Cards: I Think Back Through Judith Ortiz Cofer," Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies
Supplementary Materials (background and writing prompts) for Rooted: The Best New Arboreal Nonfiction,
edited by Josh MacIvor-Anderson (Outpost 19) (my prompt for my essay "Saving Trees")
2016
"Flash, Back: Revisiting Jayne Anne Phillips," SmokeLong Quarterly
2014
"It's a Wonder: On Sara Levine & the Touchstone Anthology," Essay Daily
2010
"'Story as Sacrament': An Interview with Dorothy Allison, Arroyo Literary Review (print)
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