Publications


Chapbooks

Men You Don’t Know You KnowThe Cupboard Pamphlet, winner of the 2020 Annual Contest judged by Kim Chinquee

Lecture Paper Nautilus Press, winner of the 2019 Debut Series Contest


Selected Fictions

Joyland South — “Another Opening”

Tiny Nightmares — “The Mask, The Ride, The Bag” (Catapult/Black Balloon)

Cincinnati Review miCRo series — “Favoring the Nightcap”

Glimmer Train Stories Issue 102 — “That’s That” (nominated for the Pushcart Prize)

Salt Hill 40 — “Consider These Lush Gardens” (nominated for the Pushcart Prize)

Yemassee 23.1 — “Some Memories of Brett Favre” (Pushcart Prize Special Mention)

Sycamore Review 27.1 — “Road Trip Postcards to My Father”

The Journal 39.3 — “Crash Landing”

Gigantic Sequins 5.1 — “Driving Lessons”

The Rupture — “Lookout Sound”

Western Humanities Review 73.1 — “Museum,” “Icebox,” & “Correspondence”

Pithead Chapel — “Your Brother Is Going To Jail”

DIAGRAM — “Film School”

Always Crashing — “Alternative Ending”

Heavy Feather Review — “Warehouse”

Sinking City — “Library,” “Evergreen,” & “But What Was In The Woods”

Threadcount — “The Submarine”

Quarterly West — “The Triangle”

New South — “Future Filum”

Tupelo Quarterly — “Restoration Efforts Underway”

Cheap Pop — “Finger Spell”

SmokeLong Quarterly — “Baseball Bat”


Essays, Interviews, & Reviews

Interviews

Kimberly King Parsons on Black LightThe Adroit Journal

Tasha Coryell on Hungry PeopleThe Adroit Journal

David Naimon on fiction & craft — Black Warrior Review

Ndinda Kioko on her prize-winning story — Black Warrior Review

Laura van den Berg on fiction & Florida — Black Warrior Review

Essays

Ploughshares Online — Obsession & Celebrity in Laura Sims’ Looker

Glimmer Train — Constraint as a Method for Surprise

Electric Literature — Introduction to Tess Allard’s Short Story “The World Holds What It Remembers Most”

Reviews

Black Warrior ReviewMostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett

Ploughshares OnlineThe Third Hotel by Laura van den Berg

Black Warrior ReviewSuicide Club by Rachel Heng

Black Warrior ReviewThe Australian by Emma-Smith Stevens

Black Warrior ReviewThe Year of Perfect Happiness by Becky Adnot-Haynes

Atticus ReviewScrapper by Matt Bell

Atticus ReviewThe Hook and The Haymaker by Jared Yates Sexton


Humor

Electric Literature — “Donald J. Trump Makes Book Blurbs Great Again”

The Offing — “Other Times Marco Rubio Declared Victory in a Speech for Something He Didn’t Win”


Awards, Etc.

Winner — The Cupboard Pamphlet’s 2020 Contest, selected by Kim Chinquee

Winner — 2020 Cecelia Joyce Johnson Award for the short story, from the Key West Literary Seminar

Finalist — The Cupboard Pamphlet’s 2019 Contest

Pushcart Prize Nomination — “That’s That” from Glimmer Train 102

Pushcart Prize Nomination — “Consider These Lush Gardens” from Salt Hill 40

Winner — 2018 Glimmer Train Award for Very Short Fiction

Pushcart Prize Special Mention — “Some Memories of Brett Favre” in the 2018 anthology, from Yemassee 23.1

Runner-up — 2015 Sycamore Review Wabash Prize for Fiction, selected by Kelly Link

Finalist — American Short Fiction 2014 Short Story Contest