• “Happy Hibernation!,” Split Lip Magazine, June 2024
• The Quail Who Wears the Shirt (Tortoise Books), 2023
• “Psychopathology and Character Motivation,” CrimeReads, Nov 9, 2023
• “The Ball,” Jet Fuel Review, Issue #25, Spring, 2023
• “What A Fool Believes,” FreezeRay Poetry, Issue #22, 2022
• “Big Cliff,” Top 5 Finalist for The Missouri Review’s Perkoff Prize, 2022
• “A Fish Story,” Invisible City, 2022
• “Kalamazoo,” Moon City Review, 2021
• “Little Man,” Stymie Mag, August, 2020
• “Sleepover,” Pithead Chapel, June, 2020
• “Lessy” chosen for inclusion in the Best Small Fictions Anthology 2020
• “Happy Meal,” Atticus Review, Nov 26, 2019
• “Fake News,” Hypertext Magazine, Fall 2019
• “Lessy,” The Masters Review, May 13, 2019
• Selected by the Guild Literary Complex as one of Chicago’s 30 Writers to Watch
• “Blackbirds,” RHINO 2019
• Adult Teeth (Tortoise Books), 2018
• “Tina,” Sonora Review, Issue 73/74, Fall 2018
• “Piss-ants,” BULL: Men’s Fiction, February 5, 2018
• “Rapture,” The Florida Review, 41.2, Fall 2017
• Top 25 finalist, Glimmer Train Fiction Open, July/August 2017
• “Inside the Happiness Factory,” Hobart, May 25, 2017
• “Nesting,” FriGG Magazine, Fall/Winter 2016
• “Welcome to Gorilla City,” FWJ Plus, November 2014
• “Chopsticks,” Curbside Splendor, December 2013
• “Soul,” The Economy, June 2013
• “Everything is Going to be Okay,”Printers Row Journal, 2012
• “Trash Days,” Third Coast, Fall 2011
• “Leaving Charity,” The Carolina Quarterly, Summer 2010
• “Morning Erections,” Alligator Juniper, 2009
• “If Fred Dryer Had Been Sam Malone,” the2ndhand.com, 2007
• Top 25 finalist, Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Award, July 2013
• Winner, Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction, 2012
• Pushcart Prize nomination, 2012
• Top 25 finalist, Glimmer Train Family Matters Competition, Fall 2010
• Finalist, Arts & Letters Susan Atefat Prize for Creative Nonfiction, 2008
• Finalist, Many Mountains Moving Flash Fiction Contest, 2007
• Quarterfinalist, Academy of Arts and Sciences Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting, 2002

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