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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
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"The Storming of Forestswarm," Salamander, Summer 2022.
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"Taking the Blacksmith," Gettysburg Review, Fall 2020.
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"Our Bodies, Our Incoherent Selves: Games and Shifting Concepts of Identity and Narrative in Contemporary Literature," Storyworlds, Spring 2020.
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"On the Walls," New Ohio Review, Fall 2019.
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"The Stories I Do Not Know For Sure," American Literary Review, Spring 2019. (American Literary Review Award Winner)
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"City of Cobwebs," Aquifer: The Florida Review Online, Spring 2018.
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“Demonman,” The Masters Review, Fall 2017. (Winner Summer Short Story Award for New Writers)
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“Braving the Controller,” Writer’s Chronicle, Fall 2017.
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“The Roaring,” The Chattahoochee Review, Fall 2016. (Lamar York Prize Finalist)
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“Strangers in Houses,” Blackbird, Fall 2015.
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“A Certain Kind of Animal,” Sycamore Review, Fall 2014. (Pushcart nominee)
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“The Internet Hates You,” Crazyhorse, Fall 2014. (Pushcart nominee)
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"Survivor Summer," Santa Ana River Review, Fall 2014.
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“Vocalistas,” Chautauqua, Summer 2014.
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“Frank,” The Southampton Review, Spring 2014.
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"Your New Neighborhood," Witness, Summer 2013.
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"In Pixels and In Health," This Recording, February 2012.
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“A Guide to Hell’s Half-Acre,” New Delta Review, Fall 2012. (Selected for the New Delta Review Best of the Web 2010-2013 Anthology.)
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“Never Ourselves,” Water-Stone Review, Fall 2012.
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“Growing Like Houses,” Willow Springs, Summer 2012.
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“People of Substance,” Confrontation, Spring 2012.
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“Bigfoot,” The Pinch, Fall 2011. (Winner: University of New Orleans Award for Study Abroad.)
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“A Wilderness,” Prompted: The GPWS Anthology, May 2010.
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“Predictions,” The Carolina Quarterly, March 2010.
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“Monday,” The Pinch, Fall 2009.
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“Our Street,” Quarterly West, Summer 2008.
AWARDS AND HONORS
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University of Cincinnati Bicentennial Essay Contest Winner, 2016.
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Tennessee Williams Scholarship, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, 2014.
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Nonfiction Winner, University of New Orleans Writing Contest for Study Abroad, 2011.
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Top 25 Finalist, Chiasmus Press First Book Contest, 2008.
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Participant in Artist Residency Institute offered by Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission, and received stipend to lead free creative writing workshops for homeless women in Sacramento, 2008.
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Fulbright Fellowship, 2006-2007.
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Recipient of Poets and Writers, Inc. grant to develop and lead free, public creative writing workshops for teenagers in underserved areas, 2006.