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Publications

Essays

"Breaking Kayfabe.Black Fox Literary Magazine, Issue 23. (Summer 2022). Online and print.

Nominated for a 2022 Pushcart Prize

"Marriage: A Grammar Exercise." Hypertext. (December 2020). Online and print.

Named a notable essay in Best American Essays 2021

Nominated for Best of the Net 2021

"For the Love of Dogs." The Better Because Collective. (November 2020). Online.


"Spheksophobia: The Fear of Wasps." The Ilanot Review, "Toxic" issue. (Fall 2020). Online.

"Red." REO Town Reading Anthology. (September 2020). eBook.

"Chopping Board." Burningword Literary Journal, issue 95. (July 2020). Online.

"Obstruction." Speculative Nonfiction, issue 3. (June 25, 2020). Online.


"Thereafter: A Cleansing Spell." Brevity, issue 64. (May 2020). Online.

"How to Break Your Own Heart in Five Steps." RED FEZ #131 (January 2020). Online.

"Aftermath." ​The Daily Abuse: Women's Accounts of Sexual Violation. (2018). Print and Kindle. 

"Becoming Someone Else." Entropy. (September 2018). Online.

"Reading Signs." Michigan's Emerging Writers Anthology of Nonfiction. (Fall 2018). Print.


"Train Gone." Midwestern Gothic. (Winter 2018). Print. 

*Named a notable essay in Best American Essays 2019

"Fire and Water." Shantih Journal​. (Fall/Winter 2017). Online. 

"Can I Keep You?" Two Hawks Quarterly. (Spring 2017). Online. 


"Dwelling Place." Solidago Literary Journal. (Spring 2017). Print.

Named a notable essay in Best American Essays 2018 ​​

"Marked." The Nervous Breakdown. (November 21, 2016). Online.

Nominated for Best of the Net 2017

"Kissing Ginger." Angels Flight * literary west, Issue 3. (July 28, 2016). Online.

"Intentions." Oracle Fine Arts Review, Volume XIV. (2016). Print.

"Gamut." The Nassau Review. (2016). Print.

"Samantha." Page & Spine. (March 18, 2016). Online.

"Maybe a Mother, But Not a Mom.Catapult. (March 7, 2016). Online. 

​"Las Vegas Boulevard." The Chiron Review. (Fall 2015). Print.

"White Spirit." Blue Lyra Review, 4.3 (Fall 2015). Online.

"We're All Mad Here: A Field Guide to Feigning Sanity." Limestone: A Journal of Art and Literature. (Fall 2015). Print. 

Named a notable essay in Best American Essays 2016

"We Knew a Different Kind." Buck Off Magazine. (Fall 2015). Online.

"Trash Collection Day." River Teeth's Beautiful Things Series. (June 2015). Online.

"Out of Ash." New Mexico Review. Issue 1 (May 2015). Online.

"Totally Normal Until It Isn't." Temenos: Mythos, Monsters, and Madness. (Fall 2014). Print and Online.

"Regimen." The Citron Review. (December 2014). Online.

"Border Crossing." Mulberry Fork Review. (September 2014). Online.

"Meng Li Sha." Black Fox Literary Magazine. (Summer 2014). Print.


"Nobody Knows I'm Here." Narrative Northeast. (Summer 2014). Online.


"Shelter/ed." Writing Disorder. (Summer 2014). Online.


"Reflections of a Burned Out Manager." The Short Humour Site. (May 2014). Online.


"Love Where There Is No Love." riverbabble, Issue 24. (Winter 2014). Online.


"The Dress." The Quotable, Issue 11 (Winter 2013). Issue 11. Print and Online.

"Threat." New Plains Review. (Fall 2013). Print.


"There's Trouble in River City." 94 Creations Literary Review, Issue 4. (October 2013). Print.


"Calculations." Yemassee, Issue 20.2. (Fall 2013). Print.

"Chorus." Ohio Edit. (July 24, 2013). Online.

"Hamtramck." Eunoia Review. (June 14, 2013). Online. 

"Mona." The Social Gap Experiment Anthology. (2020). Print.

"Don't Go to Denver." Fragmented Voices. (2020). Online.


"Next to the River." America's Emerging Literary Fiction Writers. (2019). Print. 


"Actually, Minnesota Has Three Nicknames." Ni Bona Na Coroin: Short Story Collection. (2015). Print.


"New at This." One Million Stories Creative Writing Project. (Fall 2014). Online.

"Binoculars." The Adroit Journal Issue 8. (February 2014). Online.

"Live Purposefully to Write Intentionally." Women Writers, Women's Books. (March 12, 2017). Online.


"This Is Not to Scale." The Spark, Blog of Alternating Current Press (June 2015). Online.

"Not Your Mother's Reading List." The Coil, Journal of Alternating Current Press (May 2017). Online.

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