Selected Publications
ESSAYS
“Warped.” Finalist in The Pinch’s 2024 Page Prize. Shortlisted in The Master’s Review Flash Contest.
“Through the Threads.” Hunger Mountain Review | February 2024
Featured on Memoir Land’s “Memoir Monday”
“Not a Dream.” The Los Angeles Review | April 2021
“On Desire.” Indiana Review | Summer 2021
Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2022
Winner of the 2020 Creative Nonfiction Prize
“For the Voter Stuck in Silence.” McSweeney’s. | November 2020
“Looking for Relief.” Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies | Fall 2020
“How to Disappear.” CutBank | Spring 2020
Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2021
”He Who Shines.” Under the Gum Tree | Fall 2019
“There You Are.” The Chattahoochee Review | Fall 2018
“Uncertainty.” War, Literature, & the Arts. Available in print here. | March 2018
“Beyond Grief.” Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts. | May 2017
“Paved in Gold.” Consequence Magazine: an international literary magazine focusing on the culture of war. | February 2018. Republished in Wrath-Bearing Tree | January 2020
“Items to Survive.” Iron Horse Literary Review. Issue 17.6
“Silent Interrogations.” The Southeast Review | Summer 2015
Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2016
“How Much for That Pair of Shoes?” Crab Orchard Review. 20.1. | Winter/Spring 2015
“Morning Glory.” Punctuate Magazine | December 2018
“Sirens.” Entropy Magazine | Summer 2018
“I Teach, Therefore I Essay” (extended meditation). Mike Steinberg Blog | April 2018
“On Breaking the Rule of Detachment.” GrubWrites | February 2018
“Blindly Threading the Needle.” Blackbird | October 2017
“Breaking Boundaries.” Solstice | August 2017
Finalist in Solstice’s 2017 Summer Contest
“I Teach, Therefore I Essay.” Inside Higher Ed | April 2017
“My Father Voted for Trump.” Vox. 15 | November 2016
“Museum of Endangered Sounds.” The Southeast Review. | Winter 2017
Finalist in the 2016 Narrative Nonfiction Contest
“On Delight” (Nonfiction). Two Cities Review. | Fall 2015
Runner-up in the 2015 Prose Nonfiction Contest
FICTION
“The Girl Who Lives in the Stars.” Pankhearst (America is Not the World Anthology) | Fall 2015
“Alligator Alley.” Gravel Magazine. | Fall 2015
“To Sleep.” Gravel Magazine. | Fall 2015
“Waning.” Cleaver Magazine. | Summer 2015
“Don’t You Understand?” Stolen Island | Spring 2015
“Open Wide.” Oblong Magazine. | Spring 2015
“On Disappearing” & “I’m Sorry.” Short, Fast, and Deadly. | Spring 2015
“Tripping.“ 50wordstories.com. | Winter 2015
Winner of February 2015, 50wordstories Story of the Week Award
REVIEWS & JOURNALISM
“Mary Bonina’s My Father’s Eyes” (Review). Solstice Literary Magazine | Spring 2014
“No Lust Lost” (Orlando Ballet review). Orlando Weekly. | 21 April 2011
“The Shadow of Death” (Music feature). Orlando Weekly. | 7 October 2010