Recent Publications & Prizes

Nonfiction

• "Slow Rupture", winner of the 2024 Walter Nathan Essay Award, published in Great River Review Issue 70 (print)

• "The Daddy Issues", finalist for the 2022 Creative Nonfiction Award, CRAFT; finalist for the 2023 Chautauqua Janus Prize; published in Southern Humanities Review Vol. 56.3 (print)

• "Black Hard Palate", finalist for the 2022-23 Editor’s Prize in Nonfiction, Porter House Review

• "Specific Phobia: A DSM Self-Diagnosis", Soundings East, Spring 2023 (print)

• "Body/Mind Braid", finalist for the Terry Tempest Williams Prize in Creative Nonfiction, published in the Spring 2023 issue of North American Review (print)

• "What Makes the Circle Just", Novus Literary Arts, Winter 2022 (print)

Fiction

• Excerpt from Vera, Your Man Is History (novel-in-progress) longlisted for the 2022 Granum Foundation Prize; semi-finalist for the 2022 Kirkwood Prize of the Writing Program at University of California, Los Angeles

• "Home Again", excerpt from Vera, Your Man Is History, finalist for Novel Slices Prize

Poetry

• "Self-Talk", Cathexis Northwest Press, January 2023

• "Offering", Pink Panther Magazine, September 2022