Clean Hands
I have a new story up at Monkey Bicycle! March 2018 He’s only a park gardener. Shaves, makes coffee, watches porn, wipes up the mess. She’s only a traffic controller. Does her crunches and pushups, skips breakfast, curses everyone on the…
End of the Year Honors
Very honored to have received three Pushcart Prize nominations this year! One from TriQuarterly for my story “The Men on the Fence,” one from Paul Crenshaw for the same story, and one from matchbook for my story “Woman of the Century.” I was also nominated twice…
Fall 2017 Publications
Happy to announce I have two essays published this season. A longer one, “Beach Bodies,” on Syrian refugees and the Greek islands as a holiday destination, in Room Magazine (available for order here). A shorter one, “Possible Reactions,” on living and writing…
Debate in Tilburg
My Alma Mater, Tilburg University, has invited me to speak about the past, present, and future of the university in our society. Find me in Tilburg, the Netherlands, on Sep 21, 2017. Come and join the debate (or the after-party)!
Summer 2017 Publications
Thanks to many terrific editors and literary magazines, my words have found some lovely homes. The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review published “On Her Skin.” (If you subscribe and “adopt” me, I receive 60% of the funds.) Cheap Pop gave “The Spider and…
Spring 2017 Publications
While the vines outside my window bud and grow, new stories are imagined and written. Necessary Fiction published “Office Women: Three Portraits and Thirteen Questions,” in which I introduce three women who have found different ways to escape the bleak lives in which they feel imprisoned.…
