Fiction
“Class Notes” | Meridian
Issue 48 (2024) |
Forthcoming
“Mother and Child” | The Florida Review
Aquifer: TFR Online, June 2022 | Available online in full
“She’ll use her other hand to lift her mom’s top arm and drape it across her own shoulders. They’ll lie that way a few moments, each of them holding with one arm and being held with another.”
“Lucky’s” | Fiction
Issue 65 (2022), and available online | Winner of the 2021 Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize in Fiction
“I worked at a BYOB lobster restaurant on an inland creek in Kittery, half an hour down from Kennebunk by the Post Road, where the water was brown and shallow enough to get hot.”
“The Bad Guy” | Tahoma Literary Review
Issue 21 (2021), with excerpt and audio recording available online
“Lacey hates this desperate, familiar feeling—unlike Reese, who gives up so easily, Lacey has tried too hard for too long with too many men who shut down at rough patches. She watches the bobcat poke her paw out from under the car.”
“Witness” | North Dakota Quarterly
Issue 88.1/2 (2021), and available online
“I have long known that real life makes no such promise. Which is why I was surprised to find myself, of all people, stopped at an intersection on a slow stretch of the Post Road to bear witness to the accident.”
Nonfiction
“The Model of Infection” | Fiction
In the Time of the Plague Series: Available online
“He told me he was one of two team members who had not yet contracted the virus, and he was just waiting for his turn. He said infection was inevitable.”
Awards & Prizes
2023 Masters Review Novel Excerpt Contest—Shortlist
2021 Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize in Fiction (selected by Kevin Canty)
Readings & Interviews
“I Love Complex Characters” | Lit Mag News Roundup (Jan 2022)
2021 Inprint Prize Winners Reading | Inprint (June 2021)
Gulf Coast Reading Series | Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature & Fine Arts | with Eileen Myles (Oct 2020)
Poetry & Prose Reading Series | University of Houston (Oct 2019)