Critical Prose
September 2022: Review of The Book of Goose, by Yiyun Li in On the Seawall
October 2021: Review of Rita Dove’s Playlist for the Apocalypse in Heavy Feather Review
August 2021: Review of Julia Koets’s Pine in Heavy Feather Review
October 2020: 32 Poems Contributor’s Marginalia, “Letter to Jane Zwart”
January 2019: Review of Mary Oliver’s Devotions: New and Selected Poems in America
Creative Nonfiction
“Magic Mile” // The Common (December 2021)
Fiction
“The Present” // Catapult (August 2022)
“Remains” // Snarl Issue 3 (Spring 2022) [print] [excerpt] *Nominated for the Pushcart Prize*
“Consumption” // North Dakota Quarterly (Volume 89, Nos. 1/2, Spring/Summer 2022) [print]
“Salt” // Yalobusha Review (33, Spring 2021)
“The Blue Kingdom” // Great Lakes Review (Issue 9, August 2020) [print]
“Mother of Sorrows // Letters (Winter 2020)
“Moon Sycamore” // The Hopper (February 2020) *Nominated for Best of the Net*
“What Comes Next” // Bayou Magazine (Issue 71, 2019) [print]
“Crepuscular Behavior” // Tahoma Literary Review (Issue 15, Summer 2019) [print; audio here]
“Bonnet Man and the Invisible Moths of Franklin County” // Green Briar Review (Winter 2019) [print]
“Space Coast” // The Piltdown Review (January 2, 2019)
“The Concertmaster” // Necessary Fiction (November 14, 2018)
“The Forester’s Three Daughters” // briars lit (Volume 1, August 2018)
“Changelings” // Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments (July 24, 2018)
“The Shore” // Longleaf Review (Issue 2, April 1, 2018)
“How Vivian Vaughan Lost the Night Sky” // South Carolina Review (Volume 50.2, Spring 2018) [print]
“The Death of Actaeon” // Day One (Issue 4.23, March 29, 2017; now available as a Kindle Single here. )
“The Green Thread and the Blue” // Pulp Literature (Issue 13, Winter 2017)
“Drifting, Maybe Caught” // Slush Pile Magazine (Issue 20, November 2016)
“Contingency Plans” // Apeiron Review (Issue 11, Summer 2016)
“Allergies” // Valparaiso Fiction Review (Volume 5, Issue 2, May 2016)
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