Anthologies:
“1.7 to Tennessee” in The Story and Its Writer, ed. Ann Charters, Bedford/St. Martin’s, forthcoming
“Sinkhole” in The O.Henry Prize Stories 2013, Anchor Books, forthcoming Fall 2013
“A Plain Kiss” in Forty Stories: New Writing from Harper Perennial, ed. Cal Morgan, June 2012
“God Texts the Ten Commandments” in The McSweeney’s Book of Politics and Musicals, Vintage, June 2012
Short Fiction:
“Relatives of God,” The New Yorker (Page-Turner), March 2013
“Wavefunction Collapse,” Oxford American, Spring 2013
“Demolition,” The Kenyon Review, Winter 2013
“Yves Klein, Madman,” Bullett Magazine, Dec. 2012
“What Friends Talk About,” The Southern Review, Fall 2012
“The Anointing,” Guernica, Sept. 2012
“Sinkhole,” Ploughshares, Spring 2012 (PEN/O.Henry Prize winner)
“A Plain Kiss,” Fifty-Two Stories with Cal Morgan, June 2012
“A Cupcake Boutique of One’s Own,” Map Literary, Spring 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,” AGNI, Spring 2011 (Pushcart Prize nomination)
“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:
“Like a Prayer,” New York Times, Room for Debate, forthcoming May 2013
“On Amy Hempel,” The Missouri Review blog, May 2013
“Ode to a Fantasy with Chickens,” Oxford American, Best of the South, 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
“The Art of the Sentence: Denis Johnson,” Tin House blog, September 2011
“Band-Aid Braille,” 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
Why I’m Not On Twitter Yet, 5/31/12
Regarding Recognition: A Response to Michael Nye, With Gratitude, 6/7/12
First Drafts: Playwriting. A Conversation with Beth Henley, Young Jean Lee, and Enrique Urueta, 6/14/12
From Bennington to Book Tour: A Life of Letters Q&A, 6/28/12
Q&A with Literary Agent Anna Stein O’Sullivan, 7/5/12
Three Days at MacDowell: Journal Entries, 7/12/12
First Drafts: Nonfiction. A Conversation with Lia Purpura, Jack Pendarvis, and Sven Birkerts, 7/19/12
The Center for Fiction: “Away from the Rum Shop and Billiard Room,” 8/2/12
One More Swing of the Club, 8/9/12
More McSweeney’s:
“Catherine and Heathcliff Audition for Twilight”