Publications & Awards
PUBLICATIONS
2022 Defenestrate: A Novel, Bloomsbury Publishing (January 2022)
2022 “Bigfoot is a She,” Barrelhouse, issue 23, 2022
2022 “Animal Days,” The Kenyon Review, May/June 2022
2022 “Dowsing,” Sequestrum, Spring 2022
2020 “A Caregiver’s Diary, The Iowa Review, v. 50, issue 2, Fall 2020
2020, “Glow and Afterglow,” Poets.org, Academy of American Poets Prize 2020
2019 “I and Thou: A Bigfoot Encounter,” Guernica, December 2019
2019 “A Couple of Idiots,” Con*text, November 2019
2019 “Elders,” Boulevard, v. 35, no. 1, Fall 2019
2019 “As the Sparks Fly Upward, Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019
2018 “As the Sparks Fly Upward,” Alaska Quarterly Review, v. 35 no. 1&2, Summer & Fall 2018
2018 “Twofold,” Brevity, September 2018
2018 “On Hysteria,” New Limestone Review, March 2018
2018 “Night Moves,” Tampa Review, v. 55&56, Spring 2018
2018 “Certainty,” The Los Angeles Review, v. 22, 2018
2018 “Let Him Go On, Mama,” Narrative Magazine, Winter 2018
2017 “Bolt,” The Florida Review, v. 42 no. 1, Spring 2018
2017 “My Own Personal Herakles,” Lit Hub, September 2017
2017 “Neighbors of Fire,” The Gettysburg Review, v. 30 no. 3, Autumn 2017
2017 “Left,” The Georgia Review, v. 71 no. 3, Fall 2017
2017 “On Burning,” Hobart, August 2017
2017 “Junk Drawer,” Denver Quarterly, v. 51 no. 4
2017 “Rendezvous,” True Story, v. 8
2017 “A Brief History of Dog Walking,” Chicago Quarterly Review, v. 25, Summer 2017
2017 “Mlsná,” The Texas Review, v. 38 no. 1&2, Spring/Summer 2017
2016 “Smoke: A Love Story,” Fields Magazine, no. 6, Autumn/Winter 2016
2014 “The Lightning Left No Mark,” The Long Story, no. 32
2012 “The Devil in the Water,” Blackbird, v. 11 no. 1, Spring 2012
AWARDS
2022 Dean’s Dissertation Completion Fellowship
2021 Ricking Fellowship
2020 Recipient of National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship Grant in Prose
2020 “Glow and Afterglow,” Academy of American Poets Prize
2019 “Bolt,” Notable Mention in Best American Essays 2019
2018 Art Omi Writing Residency, April 2018
2018 “Bolt,” nominated for Pushcart Prize by The Florida Review
2017 received general Pushcart Prize nomination from contributing editor, Pinckney Benedict
2017 “Junk Drawer,” nominated for Pushcart Prize by Denver Quarterly
2017 “Bolt,” first place winner of the Florida Review’s Editors’ Award in Nonfiction
2017 Left: A Novel, Semifinalist for the James Jones First Novel Fellowship
2017 “Night Moves,” AWP Intro Journals Award winner in Fiction
2017 “Certainty,” first place winner of the Los Angeles Review Fall Nonfiction Award
2016 “Left,” Top 25 Finalist, Glimmer Train New Writers Contest
2013 “As the Sparks Fly Upward,” winner of the Jack Leggett Prairie Lights Fiction Contest