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