“Not a Dream.” The Los Angeles Review. April 2021.

“On Desire.” Indiana Review. Summer 2021.

• *Winner of the 2020 Creative Nonfiction Prize. Read the full review, by Judge Bassey Ikpi, here.
• *Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2022*

“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*

“There You Are.” The Chattahoochee Review. Fall 2018.

”He Who Shines.” Under the Gum Tree. Fall 2019.

“Uncertainty.” War, Literature, & the Arts. March 2018. Also available in print here.

“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” (Nonfiction). Iron Horse Literary Review. Issue 17.6.

• “Silent Interrogations” (Nonfiction). The Southeast Review. Summer 2015.       *Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2016*

“How Much for That Pair of Shoes?” (Nonfiction). Crab Orchard Review. 20.1. Winter/Spring 2015. *Winner of the 2014 Rafael Torch Literary Nonfiction Award* *Finalist in the 2016 Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest*

“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.

“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. Forthcoming 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*

“The Girl Who Lives in the Stars” (Fiction). Pankhearst (America is Not the World Anthology). Fall 2015.

“Alligator Alley” (Fiction). Gravel Magazine. Fall 2015.

“To Sleep” (Fiction). Gravel Magazine. Fall 2015.

“Waning” (Fiction). Cleaver Magazine. Summer 2015.

“Don’t You Understand?” (Fiction). Stolen Island. Spring 2015.

“Open Wide” (Fiction). Oblong Magazine. Spring 2015.

“On Disappearing” & “I’m Sorry” (Fiction). Short, Fast, and Deadly. Spring 2015.

“Tripping” (Fiction). 50wordstories.com. Winter 2015. *Winner of February 2015, 50wordstories Story of the Week Award*

“Mary Bonina’s My Father’s Eyes” (Review). Solstice Literary Magazine. Spring 2014.

“Can Nonfiction Writers Be Happy—And Still Write?” (Nonfiction). 48. Spring 2014.

“In the Dark” (Creative Nonfiction). Spry Literary Magazine. Spring 2013.

“Silhouettes” (Short Story). Prairie Margins. Spring 2012.

“A Sick Cycle” (Memoir). The Cypress Dome, Issue 23. Spring 2012.

“Gus” (Flash Fiction). Sphere Literary Magazine, Issue 7. Winter 2012.

“Beauty, Wide Awake” (Orlando Ballet feature). Orlando Weekly. 12 October 2011.

“Allied Forces” (Music feature). Orlando Weekly. 2 June 2011.

“No Lust Lost” (Orlando Ballet review). Orlando Weekly. 21 April 2011.

“Extreme Makeover” (Arts piece). Orlando Weekly. 17 March 2011.

“The Real Life” (Music feature). Orlando Weekly. 17 March 2011.

“Polyamorous” (Music feature). Orlando Weekly. 10 February 2011.

“It Takes Two” (Music feature). Orlando Weekly. 2 December 2010.

“Face Off” (Music feature). Orlando Weekly. 28 October 2010.

“The Shadow of Death” (Music feature). Orlando Weekly. 7 October 2010.