Publications

Fiction

“The Blood Kettle,” Mid-American Review. Vol. XLI, Spring 2022. Winner of a 2021 AWP Intro Journal Award. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
“Lessons Learned in a Hungarian Kitchen,” Juked, March 26, 2019

“Tear the Skin,” North American Review, forthcoming, 2024.
“Tick Season,” Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction, Volume 26, Number 1, Spring 2024, pp. 160-165, Michigan State University Press.
“Strawberry Tongue,” Short Reads. Vol. 13. June, 21, 2023.
“Son of a Buck,” American Literary Review, Fall, 2022.
“Revision Notes Regarding the Fish in the River,” New Letters, Vol. 88 nos. 3 & 4, Summer/Fall 2022.
“Criteria for a Kiss in Quarantine.” Diagram Journal. 21.1, April, 2021. Featured in Creative Nonfiction’s Sunday Short Reads Newsletter, 149, Sept., 2021.
“After the Smoke, Before the Flames,” Essay, Denver Quarterly, 2019
“It Is/It Was/It Will,” The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review, Aug. 14, 2018
“The Tall Grass and the Long Night,” The Baltimore Review, Oct. 27, 2017
“The Begonia Is Blooming,” River Teeth, Jan. 18, 2016
“Poultry Processing, Day One,” The Offing, Jan. 7, 2016
“How to Say Mezőcsokonya,” New South Journal, January 2016
“Fragile Bodies,” Cleaver Magazine, April 1, 2015

“When You Pull Me From the Water,” Conjunctions, April 6, 2022.
“Picking Raspberries on the Beach You Cannot Believe How Much You Want,” Conjunctions, April 6, 2022.
“I Have the Flu and So Tonight,” Conjunctions, April 6, 2022.
“Opened Boxes,” Conjunctions, April 6, 2022.
“Sandwiches on the Moon,” The Offing, April 12, 2022.
“Alight,” Straylight Magazine, Dec. 25, 2016
“Four Letter Words,” Every Second Sunday: An anthology of short stories and poetry from Seoul-based writers, presented by the Seoul Writers Workshop, 2009.
“Cobwebs.” The Firethorne, 2009.
“Understanding.” The Firethorne, 2007.

“He Said, She Said, I Say: A Researched Argument Essay,” New York Times, “The Learning Network,” Feb. 13, 2015