Nonfiction
"Claw." Hunger Mountain. Forthcoming.
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"Mess With Electric." Witness. Forthcoming.
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"Mystery House." Brevity. Forthcoming.
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"Snapdragon." Zone 3. Forthcoming.
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"Stain." Shenandoah. Vol. 73.2. Spring 2024.
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"Playing House." The Cincinnati Review. Vol. 20.2. Fall 2023.
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"Brumation." Hunger Mountain Review. Issue 28. Summer 2023.
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"Doomscroll." New England Review. Vol. 43.2. Fall 2022.
"On Reflection" Literary Hub. November 2022.
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"Chronostasis." The Normal School. September 2022.
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"Stomp." DIAGRAM. August 31, 2022.
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"Skip It." Sweet. May 24, 2022.
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"Giving Up." Under the Sun. May 8, 2022.
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"Constellate." Pidgeonholes. February 2, 2022.
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"Descendant." Fourth Genre. Vol. 23, No. 2. Fall 2021.
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"Are You My Mother?" Grist. Issue 14, 2021.
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"Tumble." Sycamore Review. Vol. 32, No. 2. Winter/Spring 2021.
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"Dash." CRAFT. August 11, 2021.
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"Still Life." Redivider. May 12, 2021.
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"Excavation." Bellingham Review. April 16, 2021.
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"Hug Your Mad." Hobart. December 29, 2020.
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"Experiment." Cincinnati Review. Vol. 17.2 Fall, 2020.
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"In Flame." Southeast Review. Volume 38.2. November, 2020.
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"Weather Report." Sweet. Volume 13, Issue 1. October, 2020.
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"Something from Nothing." Pithead Chapel. October 1, 2020.
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"Steering Into Winter." Brevity. September 13, 2019.
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"Men Teach Me How to Play D&D." Split Lip Magazine. August 15, 2019.
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"Like Ice." Pithead Chapel. August 1, 2019.
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"In Praise of the Plains." Zone 3. Vol. 34, No. 1, Spring 2019.
Best American Essay Notable, 2020.
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"Teaching the Literature of Mad Women." Lit Hub. September 24, 2018.
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"Compulsion." The Rumpus. September 21, 2018.
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"Taking Up Space." VIDA: Women In Literary Arts. September 4, 2018.
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"Pittman's Fire." The Normal School. Vol. Eleven, Issue One, Spring 2018.
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"Dually Noted." Passages North. Issue 39, 2018.
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"My Voice for Their Drugs." The Rumpus. December 28, 2016.
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"Syndicated Silence." The Southeast Review. Vol. 32.1, Winter 2014.
Best American Essay Notable, 2015.
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"In the Midst of This." Barnstorm. December 12, 2014.
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"Either/Or." New Madrid. Vol. 8.1, Winter 2013.
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"An Unseen Figure in Matisse’s Le Bonheur de Vivre." Zone 3. Vol. 29.2, Fall 2013.
Zone 3 Nonfiction Award
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"Lessons in Cartography." Crab Orchard Review. Vol. 18.2, Summer/Fall 2013.
Best American Essay Notable, 2014
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"Two Fighting Fists." Apt. 3.2 2013.
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"Reframing the Storm." North Dakota Quarterly. 77.4, Fall 2012.
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"Do You Hear What I Hear?" Puerto Del Sol. 47.2, Fall 2012.
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"Missing the Apocalypse." Los Angeles Review. Vol. 11, Spring 2012.
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"The Card of Future Misfortune." REAL: Regarding Arts & Letters. 36.1, Spring/Summer 2012.
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"On Names." Chariton Review. 34.2, Fall 2011.
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"Weather I’ve Known." South Dakota Review. 49.3, Fall 2011.
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"God or Something Like That." DIAGRAM. Vol. 11.5.
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"Sound of Settling." Hawaii Pacific Review. Vol. 25, 2011.
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"The Italian Butcher." Amoskeag. Vol. 28.1, Spring 2011.
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"My Brother the Cholo" and "Ignoring Signs in Suburbia." New South. Vol. 4.1, 2011.
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"A Layoff Lyric." The Broome Review. Vol. 4, Spring 2011.
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"Ekphrasis: What My Grandfather Saw." Fugue. Vol. 39, Summer/Fall 2010.
Best American Essay Notable, 2011.
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"Death: An Encyclopedic Account of Ritual and Remembrance." The Pinch. Vol. 30.2, Fall 2010.
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"Deferred Intentions." The Chaffee Review. Vol. IV, 2010.
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"I Rode With My Mother to Affluence." 5x5. 2010.