Fiction
* Won 2024 Barry Hannah Prize, Nominated for Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net
** Nominated for Best of the Net
Forthcoming
The Mystic, Notch, 2025
Before the Flood, Wigleaf, 2025
Interviews
Where I ask the questions—
David Means’s New Collection of Stories is Unstuck in Time, Guernica, 2019
Pam Houston on Reclaiming Abortion, Personhood, and Freedom, Blackbird, 2025
Where I answer the questions—
Reflections on “A Disturbance” with Sam Schieren, Yalobusha Review, 2024
Reviews
Alien Stories by E.C. Osondu: A Review, Tupelo Quarterly, 2024
Review: Pam Houston’s Without Exception, Blackbird, 2025
Honors
Sort-of almost
Long-listed for 2023 DISQUIET Literary Prize, Disquiet International (for “What Rich Men Do”)
Long-listed for 2023 Virginia Woolf Award for Short Fiction, LitMag (for “The Beginning of What”)
Long-listed for 2024 Emerging Writer’s Contest, Ploughshares (for “Summer Dialogue #2”)
Almost
Runner Up (selected by Nana Kwame Adeji-Brenyah), The 2021 Gulf Coast Prize in Fiction (for “The Beginning of What”)
Short-listed for 2024 DISQUIET Literary Prize, Disquiet International (for “Alibi”)
Finalist, 2024 Iowa Review Award, The Iowa Review (for “Kiki or Bouba”)
Short-listed for 2024 Open Call, A Public Space (for “Enter the Swamp”)
Finalist, 2025 Rising Writer Prize, Autumn House Press (for Spaghetti Man: Stories)
Semi-Finalist, 2025 Halifax Ranch Fiction Prize, American Short Fiction, (for “Stew”)
Huzzah
Winner of 2022 Vermont Studio Grant, Vermont Studio Center
Winner of 2023 Mountain Field Farm Residency in Palmer, Alaska, Writing by Writers
Winner of 2024 Studio Access Residency, Visual Arts Center of Richmond
Winner of 2024 Barry Hannah Prize in Fiction (selected by Michael X. Wang), Yalobusha Review (for “A Disturbance”)