Creative Nonfiction, Essays, Lists, Interviews, etc.
On the Playfulness of Short Stories
Author Interview published in Writers Digest
Wherein I discuss the experience of writing Half-Lives and getting it published. Read
Pay Attention to the Obsessive Workings of Your Mind
Guest Post published on Jane Friedman’s Blog
Where I write about the origins of some of my stories and how to mine your own strange obsessions Read
9 Short Story Collections About Women’s Bodies
Published in Electric Literature
A reading list in which I recommend books that explore what it means to exist in the flesh as a woman. Read
In the 70s Everyone, Including Mannequins, Had Nipples
Published in Hobart
“Once upon a time there was no sex, but sex was everywhere…” Read
What My Supermarket Means to Me
Published in Brevity Twenty
Where I wax poetic, avowing “…with all truthfulness: Stop & Shop is the commercial correlative of the Homeric Sirens, the slick Dorian Gray of The New World Order, the buxom Playboy bunny of groceries.” Read
Short Stories
InventEd
BOMB, September 2023
A lonely woman manifests a husband who turns out to be less than what she’d wished for. Find Story
The Time Museum
No Tokens, December 1, 2022
Welcome to the museum where time is a material thing you can visit, manipulate, experience like a tourist. Find Story
A Good Price
The Rupture, Issue One Hundred and Sixteen: December 2021
A short, late capitalist love story. Find Story
Happy Birthday
Hags on Fire, June 2021
Woman of a certain age turns (literally?) invisible. Find Story
Corpse Pose
KR Online March, April 2020
Sleeping Beauty as yoga teacher with mother issues. Find Story
The Audio Guide
The Southern Review, Winter 2019
Museum intern adds disturbing commentary to museum audio guide before disappearing. Find Story
The Wanting Beach
Conjunctions Magazine, Fall 2018
Sisters stumble into endless wanting and must navigate a newly curious world. Find Story
Plural Like the Universe
The Southern Review, Summer 2015; Finalist, Chicago Tribune Nelson Algren Short Story Contest
Con artist convinces a couple she’s an artist they should invest in. Find Story
Being Stevie
Georgia Review, Winter 2014; Honored under, Other Distinguished Stories of 2014, Best American Short Stories
Stevie Nicks impersonator is faced with a decision. Find Story
Half Lives
Georgia Review, Spring 2013
Teacher with a mysterious condition chaperones a school trip to the local nuclear power plant. Find Story
The Speed of Dark
Georgia Review, Summer 2009
Woman attempts to ignore an ambiguous diagnosis while making a sexual pact with her husband to avoid parental responsibility… Find Story
Anthologies
Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse
Lost Horse Press, 2017
Lust unbound.
Bared: Contemporary Poetry and Art on Bras and Breasts
Les Femmes Folles Books, 2017
All you ever wanted to know about tits.
Upstart: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies
Clemson University 2013
Shakespeare’s sonnet 39 in Jazz Age argot
Mischief, Caprice and Other Poetic Strategies
Red Hen Press, 2004
Ars poetica with children.
Transition: Poems in the Aftermath
Indolent Books
My inauguration day horror poem.