Story Collection:
I Want To Show You More. Forthcoming from Grove/Atlantic, March 2013.
* Finalist, Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction
Short Fiction:
“Demolition,” The Kenyon Review, forthcoming in Winter 2013
“What Friends Talk About,” The Southern Review, forthcoming Fall 2012
“Sinkhole,” Ploughshares, Spring 2012 (Guest editor: Nick Flynn)
“A Plain Kiss,” Fifty-Two Stories with Cal Morgan, forthcoming 2012
“Caught Up,” Tin House, The Ecstatic, Fall 2011
“Decomposition: A Primer for Promiscuous Housewives,” American Short Fiction, annual contest winner (selected by Wells Tower), Summer 2011
“1.7 to Tennessee,” The Antioch Review, Summer 2011
“Three Stories” (Imperfections; You Look Like Jesus; Relatives of God), AGNI 73, Spring 2011
“Better to Lose an Eye,” Blackbird, v9n2, January 2011
“To the (Ex) Friend With Whom I (Almost) Committed Adultery,” Swink, Dec. 2010
“Up 58 South,” Alaska Quarterly Review, Spring/Summer 2010 (Guest editor: Amy Hempel) READ
“Here,” The Hopkins Review, Winter 2010
“Ladies and Gentlemen of the Pavement,” The Cincinnati Review, Winter 2010
“Holy Ground,” The Antioch Review, Summer 2009
Nonfiction:
“Ode to a Failed Flannery Fantasy,” Oxford American, Best of the South, forthcoming June 2012
“The Art of the Sentence: Amy Hempel,” Tin House blog, March 2012
“The Hilltops: Paying the Rent, One Guitar at a Time,” Oxford American, Annual Music Issue, December 2011
“Why I Write in a Tannery,” The Common online, December 25, 2011
“The Art of the Sentence: Denis Johnson,” Tin House blog, September 2011
“Band-Aid Braille,” Letters, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Issue 37, March 2011
“Ode to the Loneliness,” Oxford American, Best of the South, May 2010 (READ)
“Gunbunnies, (Re)Unite!” Oxford American, Annual Music Issue, December 2009 (READ)
“Among Mutinous Helium Bursts Around Saturn: Barry Hannah’s Dangerous Syntax,” Oxford American, Southern Lit issue, Sept. 2009
Blog Essays for Ploughshares (4/12 – 8/12)
Half-Moon Pose and the Writer’s Split Consciousness, 4/19/12
First Drafts: Fiction. A Conversation with Lauren Groff, Kevin Moffett, and Christine Schutt, 5/3/12
The Best Way To See, 5/10/12
The Writing Life: Five Things My Third-Grader Taught Me, 5/17/12
More McSweeney’s:
“Catherine and Heathcliff Audition for Twilight”
“The Compson Brothers on Larry King Live”
“God Texts the Ten Commandments”
* forthcoming in The McSweeney’s Book of Politics and Musicals (Vintage, June 2012)
Poetry:
“Eummina, Dancing,” Ghost Town (guest editor: Kevin Moffett), forthcoming Fall 2012
“The Withholding,” Blackbird, v9n1, Summer 2010
“Prayer, 6/13/08,” Bomb, Word Choice Poetry Series, Fall 2009