Short Prose

SELECTED SHORT STORIES

• “The Men on the Fence” in: TriQuarterly, nominated for a Pushcart Prize
• “Animal Puzzle” (print only) in: Denver Quarterly, nominated for a Pushcart Prize
• “Of Lace and Limitations” (print only) in: Prairie Schooner
• “The Brazilian Lover” (print only) in: Fiction International
• “The Truth About Knowing” in: Necessary Fiction
• “Gado Gado” in: jmww, nominated for a Pushcart Prize

Other short stories appeared in: The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review, Superstition Review, FOLIO, Mikrokosmos Literary Journal, Heavy Feather Review, Deus Ex Machina (in Dutch), and Deshima (in French).

SELECTED PERSONAL ESSAYS

• “From Paris to Nowhere” in: The Smart Set
  On how losing my home and downsizing my belongings turned me into a nomad—a case for owning less
• “The Last Gift” in: Tin House
  On my father’s euthanasia in The Netherlands
• “Two Midnight Murders” + “Harbor Lines” + “Six Times Red Before the Age of Ten” (three micro essays) in DIAGRAM. On the strange link between killings and safety, my auditory madeleine, and shame in childhood.
• “The Empty Space in Front of Your Hand” in: Green Mountains Review
  On coincidence and how art influences life
• “Playing the sports fan” in: Prairie Schooner
  On religion, soccer, and superstition
• “Marzipan” in: The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts
  On the bittersweet taste of grief
• “How just one exceptional reader changed my life” in: SmallStack
  On taking digital friends on the road when you travel
• “Beach Bodies” (print only) in: Room Magazine
  On the refugee crisis in Europe and guilt suppression

Other personal essays appeared in: The Pinch, The Forge, Litro Magazine, Superstition Review, Fiction Southeast, Bending Genres, Atticus Review, and Past Ten.

SELECTED OTHER NONFICTION

• “How I Learned to Love Minimizing My Possessions” in: Slate
• “Life-Changing Advice from my Literary Agent: Break Down the Wall” in: Brevity
• “Writing Wildly: How to Turn Experiments into a Cohesive Book” in: Lit Mag News
• “Swing Love” in: She’s Wanderful. Meet the woman whose love for swing dance inspired her business in handcrafted sustainable leather shoes in Vietnam.
• “Top Ten (plus one) Best (Dead) Father Flashes” a blogpost for SmokeLong Quarterly
• “Flash Addiction” a blogpost for SmokeLong Quarterly
• “Guidelines for Non-Americans on Writing a Classic American Story, a pseudo craft article for Miracle Monocle

SELECTED FLASH AND MICRO FICTIONS

• “Mirror” in: Cincinatti Review, nominated for Best Small Fictions
• “New Leader” in: Cheap Pop, selected for the Wigleaf Top 50
• “Breathlessness” in: MoonPark Review and the Best Microfiction Anthology
• “Closed Circle” in: The Sunlight Press
• “Woman of the Century” in: matchbook, nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best Small Fictions
• “Dawn” (print only) in: Mid-American Review, finalist for the Fineline Competition
• “Clean Hands” in: Monkey Bicycle, nominated for Best Small Fictions and Best of the Net, longlisted for The Wigleaf Top 50
• “Walls” in: Electric Literature, longlisted for The Wigleaf Top 50
• “Playground” in: Bat City Review, runner up in the short prose contest judged by Ben Fountain

Other flash and micro fictions appeared online and in print in: Wigleaf, SmokeLong Quarterly, The Rupture, The Offing, Fractured Lit, Little Fiction, New Flash Fiction Review, Hobart, Midway Journal, New World Writing, Jellyfish Review, Fictive Dream, Flash: the short-short story magazine, PopShot, Flash Frontier, Connotation Press, Blink Ink, Atticus Review, Necessary Fiction, Pidgeonholes, Showcase Object&Idea, Ghost Parachute, Atlas and Alice, Lost Balloon, The Sunlight Press, Gone Lawn, Miracle Monocle, Heavy Feather Review, FlashBack Fiction, Spelk, Miramichi Flash, Tears in the Fence, Iron Horse, Whiskey Paper, Blue Fifth Review, Pithead Chapel, Vestal Review, Litro, PinBall, Literary Orphans, Boston Literary

SELECTED BOOK REVIEWS

• “Sidle Creek” by Jolene McIlwain in: CRAFT
• “The Age of Doubt” by Pak Kyongni in: Colorado Review
• “Blind Man’s Bluff” by James Tate Hill in: Colorado Review
• “Places we Left Behind” by Jennifer Lang in: Heavy Feather Review
• “Landed: A yogi’s memoir in pieces & poses” by Jennifer Lang in World Literature Today (forthcoming)
• “End of the World House” in: The Sunlight Press
• “Wait Till You See Me Dance” by Deb Olin Unferth in: Heavy Feather Review
• “Let Our Bodies Be Returned to Us” by Lynn Mundell in: Bending Genres
• “Nothing Short Of” in: jmww

Other short book reviews appear on my website.

ANTHOLOGIES

• “Gado Gado,” nominated for a Pushcart Prize, in: The Best of jmww Anthology, Modern Times Publishing, 2022
• “If You Think Stars Can’t Clap You’re Not Listening” (print only) in: Legerdemain, National Flash Fiction Anthology 2021
• “Stella Is” (print only) in: Best Microfiction 2021. Originally published in The Mambo Academy of Kitty Wang
• “Breathlessness” in: Best Microfiction 2020. “At just 49 words, quite possibly the shortest horror story you’ll ever love,” wrote Katherine Valdez. Originall published in Moon Park Review
• “Overdue Elegy” in: The Bending Genres Anthology 2018/2019
• “A Tasting of European Chefs” (print only) in: Ripening, National Flash Fiction Anthology 2018. Translated into Bulgarian by Kapka Nilan in 2021
• “Swing State” (print only) in: Sleep is a Beautiful Colour, National Flash Fiction Anthology, 2017
• “The Hardest Thing” in: Iron Horse, PhotoFinish 2017, as a finalist in the flash fiction competition
• “The World on Fire” in: Crack the Spine, Best of print anthology, Vol XIV
• “Hoe de muur onder mijn hand verkruimelde” (short story in Dutch, print only) in 25 under 35, stories by young & promising Dutch and Flemish authors, an anthology edited by Said El Haji & Annelies Verbeke.
• “Het allerliefste Hoofd” (short story in Dutch, print only) in Fasten Your Seat Belt, edited by Ramon Stoppelenburg
• “De vermenigvuldiging van Valerie” (short story in Dutch, print only) in De Verleiding, edited by Susan Smit and Siska Mulder

SELECTED NONFICTION IN DUTCH

• Political Columns for Bureau de Helling (an exchange with politician Hagar Roijackers)
• Short essays for the Filosofie Kalender. Available online here & here.
• Craft articles for Schrijven Magazine en Wah Wah
• Personal essays for HP De Tijd and Flow
• Reportage for Filosofie Magazine
• Travel Article for En Route
• Columns for ocal & national newspapers.