Nonfiction

creative nonfiction

NOTABLE ESSAY citation

PUSHCART PRIZE nomination, NOTABLE ESSAY in Best American Essays 2018

NOTABLE ESSAY citation

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 2018, edited by Hilton Als

Pushcart Prize nomination, The Gettysburg Review, 2018

Notable Essay Citation, Best American Essays 2017, edited by Leslie Jamison

Notable Essay Citation, Best American Essays 2015, edited by Ariel Levy

Pushcart Prize nomination, Southern Humanities Review, 2014

Notable Essay Citation, Best American Essays 2013, edited by Cheryl Strayed

Pushcart Prize nomination, South Loop Review, 2013

published by Outpost 19

NOTABLE ESSAY in BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2017

published by Black Lawrence Press

Creative Nonfiction and Essays

“Madeline’s Trunk,” Passages North (2020), issue 41, forthcoming spring 2020

"The Lunatics' Ball," F(r)iction (Winter 2019), issue 14, forthcoming

"Visitations," Ghost Proposal (Winter 2019), issue 10, forthcoming June 2019

"My Mother's Suitcases," The Nasiona Magazine (February 2019), issue 7

"Ugly Shoes," Barren Magazine (December 2018), issue 4

“On Foot,” SleazeMag (August 6, 2018)

"Another Mary Doyle," Under the Sun, issue 6, 2018

"Some Things I Forgot," Zone 3 (Spring 2018), volume 33, issue 1, pp. 57-68

“Haunting Houses,” NOR: New Ohio Review (Spring 2018), issue 23, pp. 77-83

“Long Distance,” Under the Gum Tree (October 2017), issue 25, pp. 94-99 (excerpt)

"Family Pictures," The Gettysburg Review (Summer 2017), vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 285-293
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by The Gettysburg Review
Notable Essay listing in Best American Essays 2018, edited by Hilton Als

“Fireflies,” Superstition Review (Spring 2017), issue 19
Authors Talk podcast, Superstition Review blog

display at AWP18 in Tampa

“Saving Trees,” Catamaran Literary Reader (Summer 2016), issue 14, pp. 23-25

“What Did You Say?,” Electric Literature (August 5, 2016)

“A Eulogy, Despite,” Full Grown People (April 14, 2016)
Notable Essay listing in Best American Essays 2017, edited by Leslie Jamison

"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

PUSHCART PRIZE nomination

"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 PRIZE nomination

Finalist, Diana Woods Memorial Award for Creative Nonfiction

"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;
Notable Essay Listing in Best American Essays 2015, edited by Ariel Levy

“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

NOTABLE ESSAY in BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2015

“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

"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;
Notable Essay listing in Best American Essays 2013, edited by Cheryl Strayed

NOTABLE ESSAY in BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2013

"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

Craft and Author Essays

"The Story Behind the Story: 'Nadine's Broken Heart,'" Fiction Southeast (May 7, 2018)

"Jacqueline Doyle on her Medusan Muses: Joyce Carol Oates, Jayne Anne Phillips, Sandra Cisneros, Toni Morrison, Hélène Cixous," Many Gendered Mothers (April 9, 2018)

“Plots are for Dead People,” Bending Genres, issue 1 (MicroViews blog, February 16, 2018)

"Teaching The Latin Deli in the Age of Trump," Judith Ortiz Cofer Forum,
a/b: Auto/Biography Studies (Winter 2018), vol. 33, issue 1

"Shuffling the Cards: I Think Back Through Judith Ortiz Cofer,"
Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies (Fall 2017), vol. 4, issue 1

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