Writing
Short Fiction
Gulf Coast, “St. Ellen,” August 2025
Water~Stone Review, “Nojento,” October 2024 (Vol. 27; 2024-2025) (nominated for a Pushcart Prize; see also this “In the Field” interview with me about this piece)
Juked, “Hacienda,” January 2022
The Bridport Prize Anthology 2021, “The Hall of Human Origins,” October 2021
CALYX, “Clarinet Lessons,” summer/fall 2022 (Vol. 33:2)
Bayou Magazine, “A Very Special Episode,” March 2021 (Issue 73)
New Ohio Review, “Fourteen Meals,” June 2020
The Chicago Tribune, “Host Mother,” July 2019
Narrative Magazine, “Seven Waves for Good Luck,” July 2013
Non-Fiction
Southeast Review, “Sangre Latina,” spring 2025 (Vol. 43:1) (see also my “About the Work” feature discussing this piece)
The Cincinnati Review, “My Great Hunger,” June 21, 2024
Humor
Points in Case, Bestselling Self-Help Books from the Middle Ages, November 17, 2025
The Belladonna, Notes App Apologies from Cancelled Historical Figures, April 8, 2021
Points in Case, I Am Your Bachelor, and I Am Also Running to Be Your Governor, March 1, 2021
Awards
2025 Tom Howard Fiction Contest Finalist, “Atlantic Majesty”
2024 Tom Howard Fiction Contest Finalist, “St. Ellen”
2023 Story Foundation Prize Semifinalist, “Kamama”
2021 Margarita Donnelly Prize for Short Prose Winner (selected by Charlotte Watson Sherman), “Clarinet Lessons”
2021 Bridport Prize, Highly Commended, “The Hall of Human Origins”
2021 CRAFT Short Fiction Prize, Longlisted, “The Meat They Feed On”
2021 Crazyhorse Prizes Finalist (selected by Rumaan Alam), “Nojento”
2021 Fish Publishing Short Story Prize, Longlisted, “Nojento”
2021 Montana Prize in Fiction Finalist, “Hacienda”
2021 Hunger Mountain Creative Nonfiction Prize Finalist, “My Great Hunger”
2020 American Short Fiction Halifax Ranch Fiction Prize Semifinalist, “Nojento”
2019 Salamander Fiction Contest Finalist, “Host Mother”
2019 Chicago Tribune Nelson Algren Literary Awards Finalist, “Host Mother”
2019 Faulkner-Wisdom Competition for short stories, Shortlisted, “Fourteen Meals”
2018 James Knudsen Prize for Fiction Finalist, “A Very Special Episode”
2016 Glimmer Train March/April Fiction Open Honorable Mention, “On the Road to the Volcano”
2013 Narrative Winter Story Contest, Second Prize, “Seven Waves for Good Luck”