Writing

Fiction:

  • “Postictal State” in The Masters Review Best Emerging Writers 2024, judged by Gina Chung, 2025
  • “The Medical Resident Leaves Her Husband” in Lost Balloon, 2025 (previously an honorable mention for the 2024 Pen Parentis Fellowship)
  • “Protocol for What to Do After Hearing Another Rape Story in Exam Room Five” in Fractured Lit Anthology 4, 2024, judged by Morgan Talty
  • “Cinderella at the Podiatrist” in HAD, 2024 (previously a finalist for the Masters Review 2023 spring small fiction awards)
  • “Rapunzel Gets Referred to the Endocrinologist” in HAD, 2024
  • “You Just Don’t Like It” in Threepenny Review, 2023
  • “Troubled Boats” in Prime Number Magazine, 2020 (Editor’s Selection for the 2020 Prime Number Magazine Award for Short Fiction)
  • “Do No Harm” in Best Small Fictions 2019
  • “Understanding Book Use and Its Impact on You” in Flash Fiction Magazine, 2019
  • “Do No Harm” in Monkeybicycle, 2018 (Finalist for Glimmer Train’s 2017 Very Short Fiction Award; Pushcart Prize Nominee; Anthologized in Best Small Fictions 2019)
  • “Bargains” in Pacifica Literary Review, Issue 12, 2018 (Pacifica Literary Review Fiction Contest Winner, judged by Margaret Malone; 2018 Lascaux Prize in Short Fiction Finalist; Anthologized in The Lascaux Prize 2019 Anthology)
  • “Doreen” in Joyland Magazine, 2017
  • “All Hazards Model” in Monkeybicycle, 2017
  • “Extra” in Chicago Literati, 2017
  • “Fastigium” in Hematopoiesis Press, 2017
  • “The Year She Lived on the Bus” in JMWW, 2017 (Anthologized in JMWW 2013-2022 Anthology from Modern Times Press)
  • “Coyotes” in The Bellingham Review, 2014
  • “Past the Breakwaters” in Nowhere Is More Important Than Here, 2013
  • “Undertow” in The Delmarva Review, 2013 (Anthologized in Best of Delmarva Review 2008-2023)
  • “The Island” in The Portland Review, 2013
  • “Tetherball” in The Delmarva Review, 2010

Creative Nonfiction & Essays:

  • Table Talk essay in Threepenny Review, 2019
  • “On Culture Shock” in LOST Magazine, 2019
  • “Pergelation” in Blue Mesa Review, Issue 38, 2018 (Blue Mesa Review Nonfiction Contest Winner, judged by Leslie Jamison; Best American Essays 2019 Notable)
  • “Anatomy of an Education” in The Pinch Journal, 2017
  • “First Year of Primary Care Practice” for The Baltimore Review website, 2017
  • “The Traumatized Patient” in American Journal of Nursing, 2016
  • “Burnt” in Baltimore Review, 2013
  • “Women in the Market” in Nowhere Is More Important Than Here, 2011
  • “Nursing 101” in The Delmarva Review, 2011 (two-time Pushcart Prize Nominee, Anthologized in Best of Delmarva Review 2008-2023)
  • “Cabin Noises” in Down East Magazine, 2011
  • “The Early Education of Buffalo Jill” in Gray’s Sporting Journal, 2008
  • “Need a Lift?” in Down East Magazine, 2007

Listen:

  • “Anatomy of an Education” in The Pinch Journal, 2017
  • “Untitled” on No Extra Words: Episode 46: To Watch You Go, May 2016
  • “Storage” on No Extra Words: Episode 45: Everything Must Go, April 2016.
  • Writer’s Edition guest interview for The Delmarva Review, 2013
  • Stoop Storytelling 2013
  • Stoop Storytelling 2011