Writing
Fiction
“The Poet Pugilist.” LitMag, Issue 6. (Forthcoming).
“Orphans.” Subtropics, Issue 33, Winter/Spring 2023.
“Suburban Warfare.” Iron Horse Literary Review. 25.1.
“Queen Elizabeth.” One Story. Issue #218.
“The Era of Good Feelings.” Midwestern Gothic. 20.1.
“Out of the Bronx.” Zone 3. 20.1. (Winner of the 2015 Zone 3 Fiction Award).
“Patriots.” Harpur Palate. 14.2.
“The Dogs of Detroit.” Colorado Review. 41.2.
“Stones We Throw.” Wilderness House Literary Review. 8.4.
"Praemonitus, Praemunitus.” Ostrich Review. 4.
“Evolution of the Mule.” Beloit Fiction Journal. 25.
“How to Throw a Punch.” The Adroit Journal. 6.
“Country Lepers.” The Summerset Review. 41.
“In the Walls.” Atticus Review. 2.34.
“Unicorn Stew.” the minnesota review. 78.
Anthologized Fiction
“The Dogs of Detroit.” 20 More: Selected Stories from Drue Heinz Literature Prize Winners, 2021.
“Queen Elizabeth.” The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018. Laura Furman, ed. Anchor Books.
“Queen Elizabeth.” Pushcart Prize XLII: Best of the Small Presses 2018 Edition, Special Mention.
“Evolution of the Mule.” Tartts Seven: Incisive Fiction From Emerging Writers. Joe Taylor, ed. Livingston Press.
Book Reviews
Review of “Now You Know It All” by Joanna Pearson. The Adroit Journal. February 16, 2022.
Review of “The Cucumber King of Kedainiai” by Wendell Mayo. Mid-American Review 34.2.
Review of “Three Ways of the Saw” by Matt Mullins. Mid-American Review 32.1: 223-24.
Review of “You’d Be a Stranger, Too” by Weston Cutter. Mid-American Review 31.2:185-86.
Review of “The Taste of Penny” by Jeff Parker. Mid-American Review 31.1: 184-85.
Review of “I Curse the River of Time” by Per Petterson. The Rupture Magazine #10.
Essays
“Sea Glass.” Flyway: Journal of Writing & Environment Winter 2023.
“City of Glass.” New England Review. 39.1.
“White Oak.” Hunger Mountain: The VCFA Journal for the Arts. 20.1.
"Goodness in This Game." Atticus Review, More Than Sports Talk Theme Issue.
“On Essaying: The Beauty of Elusiveness.” Brevity. The Brevity Blog.
“The Story of a Lost Cat, Sort Of.” Atticus Review. 3.27.
“Against Cleverness.” Fiction Writers Review.
“Confessions of a Writer-Mutt.” Atticus Review. 3.8.
Interviews & Profiles
The Adroit Journal. Interview with Joel Pinckney.
Ohioana Book Festival, Interview with Doug Dangler for Craft Weekly on WCBE/NPR.
One Story Q&A. Interview with Monique Laban.
The Almanac. Profile written by Harry Funk.
BG Independent News. Profile written by David Dupont.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Profile.
One Story Interview with Hannah Tinti.
Midwestern Gothic Magazine Interview.
Colorado Review Podcast: Reading and Discussion of “The Dogs of Detroit.”
Cutbank Magazine Interview: The Woodshop Series.
Awards & Honors (selected)
Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award.
John Gardner Fellowship in Fiction, Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference.
Finalist for Ohioana Book Award for Fiction, The Dogs of Detroit.
Featured debutante at One Story’s Debutante Ball. Brooklyn, NY.
The Drue Heinz Literature Prize for story collection The Dogs of Detroit.
O. Henry Prize for story “Queen Elizabeth.”
Winner of the Zone 3 Fiction Award for story “Out of the Bronx.”
Devine Fellowship in Creative Writing, Bowling Green State University