select short fiction
“Ezekiel Machine,” Harper’s, forthcoming
“Two Men, Mary,” The Paris Review
“Yogurt Days,” The New Yorker
“Little House,” The Paris Review
“Aubade,” New York Review of Books
“Skopas,” Washington Square Review
“Dirt Man,” The Kenyon Review
“Fire Sermon,” The Sewanee Review
“Hypothetical Love,” AGNI 84
“Holding,” Virginia Quarterly Review
“Belief,” Tin House Faith Issue (Pushcart Prize, 2018)
“Kyrie, With Endnotes,” Oxford American
“Wreckage,” Ecotone 10th Anniversary Issue (Pushcart nomination; 2016 Best American Short Stories Notable, ed. Junot Diaz)
“Working,” Oxford American
“Bedtime Story,” Tin House
“Relatives of God,” The New Yorker (Page-Turner)
“Wavefunction Collapse,” Oxford American, also released as Audible single via The Center for Fiction, August 2013 (narrated by author)
“Demolition,” The Kenyon Review
“What Friends Talk About,” The Southern Review
“The Anointing,” Guernica
“Sinkhole,” Ploughshares and The O.Henry Prize Stories 2013
“Caught Up,” Tin House
“Decomposition: A Primer for Promiscuous Housewives,” American Short Fiction, annual contest winner (judge: Wells Tower)
“1.7 to Tennessee,” The Antioch Review
“Three Stories,” AGNI (Pushcart nomination)
“Up 58 South,” Alaska Quarterly Review (guest editor: Amy Hempel)
“Here,” The Hopkins Review
“Ladies and Gentlemen of the Pavement,” The Cincinnati Review
“Holy Ground,” The Antioch Review
select nonfictioN
“Looking for Pippi Longstocking: Astrid Lindgren’s Stockholm,”Hemispheres, June 2024
Postcard From Provence,” Travel + Leisure (June 2023)
Cover Feature: Three Days in the Grand Canyon, Travel + Leisure (January 2021)
“Ex Parvis Magna,” Oxford American
Pandemic Dispatch: Chattanooga, The New York Review of Books
“Neither Here Nor There,” Departures
“Redeeming the Time: Mentored by the Dead,” Image
“Dénaturé,” Greenpeace Climate Visionaries Series
“The Hidden Life of Anne Vaughan Lock", The New Yorker
"What Does Your Husband Think of Your Novel?" Paris Review
"Speed Away," Oxford American
“First Person / Far Flung: Toronto,” Rhapsody Magazine
“Nomad, Indian, Saint,” on the Indigo Girls, Oxford American, Georgia Music Issue
Review of The Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen Phillips, New York Times Book Review
“Asking for Directions,” Introduction to Quatro’s guest-edited fiction issue of Oxford American
“The Walk,” Guernica
“The Sound Before the Song: Flannery O’Connor’s Prayer Journal,” Oxford American
“What It Takes: The Messy, Beautiful Business of Being a Writer Parent,” Poets & Writers
Review of Local Souls by Allan Gurganus, New York Times Book Review
“The Hilltops: Paying the Rent, One Guitar at a Time,” Oxford American
“Among Mutinous Helium Bursts Around Saturn: Barry Hannah’s Dangerous Syntax,” Oxford American, Southern Lit Issue
POETRY
“Anakainosis,” Black Warrior Review
“Soteria,” “Canto de Luna Nueva,” “What I Kept,” ADULT magazine
“Foreknowledge,” “Put On Hold,” “Magnolia,” The Mississippi Review
“Protestant Worshipper in St. Joseph’s Cathedral, San Antonio, Texas,” Oxford American
“The Withholding,” Blackbird
“Prayer, 6/13/08,” Bomb Magazine, Word Choice Poetry Series
ANTHOLOGIES
"Belief" in The Pushcart Prize Anthology 2018
“Firstsong” in A Very Angry Baby, ACRE Books/UC Press signature anthology
“Here” in The Norton Mix: Readings in Composition, W.W. Norton
“1.7 to Tennessee” in The Story and Its Writer, ed. Ann Charters, 9th edition Bedford/St. Martin’s
“Sinkhole” in The O.Henry Prize Stories 2013, Anchor Books