Selected Essays

“On Billy Strayhorn’s ‘Lush Life’ and the Drive to Disappear,” in Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts, Vol. 22, no. 1, January 2024.
“To See Clearly,” in The Normal School: A Literary Magazine, March 3, 2021.
“Story Comes from Place”: On Site Fidelity, by Claire Boyles, The Kenyon Review, Spring 2021.
“In Search of Structure: Reflections on Form in Four Recent Book-Length Essays,” in Another Chicago Magazine, Aug. 17, 2020.
“Twisted, Untwisted,” in The Museum of Americana, Issue #20, Spring 2020.
"Matter Over Mind," in Catapult, Nov. 2, 2016.
"Skinny-Dipping with Grandma," The New York Times Ties essay, Sept. 16. 2016.
"Higher Education in Illinois is Dying," The New York Times Opinion Pages, June 3, 2016.
Review of Russian Lessons, by Catherine Texier, Green Mountains Review, Vol. 29, No. 1.
“Iyabo is Yoruba for the Mother Has Returned,” Creative Nonfiction, March 2014. Finalist award for Creative Nonfiction's "Human Face of Sustainability" contest.
“Knocking the World Askew,” The Writer’s Chronicle, Spring 2014.
“The Garter That Doesn’t Quite Make the Crossing,” Los Angeles Review of Books, November 20, 2012.
“Going Native,” South Dakota Review, Fall 2011.
“Native Ground,” The Common Online, March 23, 2011.
“On Pests,” Fourth Genre, Spring 2009.
“Getting Books,” Literary Mama, January 2008.

Selected Stories

“Asterisk: A Love Story,” read aloud on Louise Wareham Leonard’s “52 Men” Podcast. Subsequently published in Plainsongs, Summer 2018.
“A Smart Bug,” in Arts and Letters, Spring 2015.
“Sympathetic Creatures,” Literary Mama, January 2013.
“Revelation,” in Hunger Mountain, Fall 2006.
“Spying on Mrs. Jenkins,” in Salt Hill Journal, Winter 2006.
“The Growing Point,” in Arts and Letters, Spring 2006.

“When Asked to Clean Your Room,” The McNeese Review blog, Fall 2014.
“Thou and I,” Green Mountains Review online, Fall 2014.
“Treading Water in the Dark, Off Savo Island,” The McNeese Review blog, September 4, 2013.
“Song of Subconsciation,” burntdistrict, Spring 2012.