books
The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction. Edited by Dinty W. Moore and Zoë Bossiere. Rose Metal Press. November 2020.
I'm Trying to Tell You I'm Sorry. Black Lawrence Press. 2019.
selected essays
“On Very Short Books, Miniatures, and Other Becomings.” Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, Issue 5.2. Spring 2019.
"That's All, I Don't Even Think of You That Often." Territory. June 20, 2018.
“Some Sort of Union.” Hippocampus. November 2017.
“The Lights from Houses.” Third Coast, Issue 43. Summer 2017.
“Marley Shelton as Wendy Peffercorn in the Sandlot (1993).” Goodnight Sweet Prince. April 2017.
“This One Long Winter.” Fourth Genre 19.1. Winter 2017.
“On Being Cold.” Entropy. June 12, 2016.
“What I Know.” Puerto del Sol 51.2. Spring 2016.
“I’m Trying to Tell You I’m Sorry.” Redivider 3.1. Spring 2016.
“The Tuesday Evening Train.” The Los Angeles Review Vol 18. Fall 2015.
“Thieving.” Hobart. Dec 3, 2014.
“What Doo-Wop Does.” Mid-American Review Vol XXXV, 1. 120-121. Fall 2014.
awards + honors
Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award for Creative Nonfiction - 2021
Notable Essay, Best American Essays 2019
Provost Merit Scholarship, CUNY Graduate Center - 2017
Writer-in-Resident, Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts - 2017
Finalist, Hippocampus’ Remember in November Contest - 2017
Notable Essay, Best American Essays 2016
Peter Taylor Fellowship, Kenyon Review Writers Workshop - 2016
Beacon Street Prize for Creative Nonfiction, Judged by Susannah Cahalan - 2015
University of Arizona Foundation Award for Creative Nonfiction - 2014
Julia Flynn Siler Scholarship, Squaw Valley Writers Workshop - 2014
Nominee, Johnnie Raye Harper Excellence in Teaching, University of Arizona - 2014
Graduate Assistant Teaching Scholarship, University of Arizona - 2013-2015
First Place, The Writer magazine Travel Essay Contest - 2012
select articles + reviews + other things
“Six Authors Demystifying Publishing with a Small Indie Press.” Catapult.
“Build a Hideout in the Trees: Tree-mendous, it's better up there.” Edible Hudson Valley.
"Interview with Eleni Sikelianos." The Nervous Breakdown.