Publication Highlights

STORY PUBLICATIONS

“Remain in Light,” Literary Mama, Summer 2026

“Nobodies,” Loch Raven Review, Spring 2026

“Flight,” Free State Review, Winter 2026

“Calligraphy,” Blood Letter , Fall 2025

“Laundry Land,” Five Points, Fall 2024 

“Kim Kardashian Forever,” Hunger Mountain, July 2024

“My Ugly Jesus,” The Hopkins Review 17.2, Spring 2024, pp 81-99

“Hammer Time,” Moonlighting-Lit Hub, Winter 2023

“Excerpt from the History of Reality TV,” Loch Raven Review, Winter 2022 

“A Random Strike,” American Short Fiction, Summer 2022

“Adult Swim,” Kenyon Review, Summer 2021, pp 4-16

“Tumbleweave,” Del Sol Review, Winter 2018

“A Sweet Trifle,” StoryQuarterly, 51, Summer 2018, pp 175-188

“Kicker,” Loch Raven Review, Spring 2017

“A Case of the Mondays,” Eclectica, Winter 2016

“The Tiniest Starfish,” Lock Raven Review (web), Spring 2015

“Anatomy of My Mother,” Sententia, 04, All Women Writers Issue, 2012, pp 125-131

“Scarecrow,” Shenandoah, Vol. 57, No. 2, 2007, pp 156-167

“Baptist Explorers of East Texas,” VERB: An Audioquarterly, Volume 2, Issue 2, 2007

“Me, Myself, and I,” Girls’ Life Magazine, December 2005

“Tapioca,” Baltimore City Paper, June 2003

ANTHOLOGIZED WORK 

“Mars,” Writing the Motherland, anthology edited by Laurie Kruk and Jane Satterfield, Demeter Press, 2016, pp 161-165 

“Raise,” City Sages Anthology, edited by Jen Michalski, City Lit Press, 2010, pp 259-270

“Scarecrow,” Pushcart Prize Anthology XXIII: Best of the Small Presses, edited by Bill Henderson, Pushcart Press, 2009, pp 501-512

SELECT NONFICTION PUBLICATIONS

“House Music,” Hippocampus, Winter 2026

 “Style is Character” (column), Washington Review of Books (web), July 2023. 

“A Smart Comforting How-to” (book review), New Pages, Fall 2021

“Mission Impossible (Burger),” JHU Hub, January 2020

“Eight Letters: Prolific Puzzlemaker,” JHU Hub, December 2019

“I Spent $17,000 to Save a Life: My Cat’s,” OZY, Winter 2018

“Cats vs. Kids,” Huffington Post, December 2017

“10 Truths My Twins Boys … Have Taught Me,” Huffington Post, June 2015

“How to Breastfeed Twins in Public,” Huffington Post, December 2014

“What I Learned from My Dad About Parenting,” Huffington Post, August 2014

“10 Truths for My Infant Twins,” Huffington Post, June 2014

“Pregnant Yoga,” Welter, Spring 2014

“Fear of Injection,” Huffington Post, December 2013

“Sperm Donor #4282: A Love Story,” Huffington Post, December 2013 

“Reflections on The Moviegoer,” Urbanite Magazine, Summer 2012

"He'd Rather Produce" (profile of John Stewart), Daily Variety, 2005