Short Fiction
- “How to be a Victim of Sexual Abuse” (University of Michigan’s RC Alumni Journal)
- “Bully-Girl,” (West Branch)
- “The Asylum Officer,” Michigan Quarterly Review (also Winner of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for 2016)
- “Ripe,” J. Journal
- “Intimacy 3000,” The Laurel Review
- “Relinquish,” The Wisconsin Review
- “All the Sons of Cain,” The Kenyon Review
- “Half-Life,” Alaska Quarterly Review
- “Prisoners Do,” Chicago Tribune, Printers Row Journal
- “AKA Juan,” The Cimarron Review
- “Coyote,” Ascent
- “Unattended,” PRISM International
- “You Should Pity Us Instead,” The Massachusetts Review
- “Layers of Earth,” The Dos Passos Review
- “When We’re Innocent,” Confrontation
- “Goldene Medene,” Ballyhoo Stories and received special mention in Pushcart Prize XXXII
- “The River Warta,” Natural Bridge
- “An Uncontaminated Soul,” Black Warrior Review
- “Nectarine Love,” The North American Review
- “Disillusion,” River Oak Review
Nonfiction
- “Brevity Creates Breadth” (Cleveland Review of Books)
- “Creating Connection in the Relay Novel: An Interview with Julia Phillips.” (Northwest Review)
- “Expanding the Psychological Borders in Look at Us by T.L. Toma“ (Review Americana)
- “Place Births a Braided Novel in Erin Flanagan’s New Book Deer Season” (Lit Pub)
- “The Braided Novel: Bursting the Bounds of Time and Perception” (RC Alumni Journal)
- “Serving the Story: An Interview with Kate Reed Petty” (Fiction Writers Review)
- “The Expert’s Black Box: Using Instinct and Observation to Improve the Fiction Workshop” (RC Alumni Journal)
- 7 Things I’ve Learned So Far” (Writer’s Digest)
- “How to Write What You Don’t Know” (Lit Hub)
- “The Long-Clock Story” (Emerging Writers Network)
- “Chronology Isn’t the Only Way: An Interview with Dan Chaon” (Fiction Writers Review)
- “The Art of the Sentence: Christopher Bram’s Gods and Monsters” (Tin House)
- “Book Notes: You Should Pity Us Instead” (Largehearted Boy)
- “A Post-Apocalypse Bunker of Books” (The Quivering Pen)
- “The Virtues of Both” (The Story Prize Blog)