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FICTION

Short Fiction



“The Pink Lady, the Honeycrisp”

~ Nominated for the Pushcart Prize ~

Wigleaf, May 2025



“Deliver US”

~ Nominated for The Best Small Fictions Anthology ~

SmokeLong Quarterly, Issue 82 (December 2023)



“Sexy Motherfucker’s Mom”

Kenyon Review, Volume XLIII Number 3 (May/June 2021)



“I Am in It”

~ Distinguished Story in Best American Short Stories 2022 ~

Alaska Quarterly Review, Vol. 37, No. 3 & 4 (Winter/Spring 2021)



“Ariel”

Witness Magazine, Vol. 33 No. 3 (Fall/Winter 2020)



“They Came to Montana to Suffer”

CutBank 92, Spring 2020



“Here, Take My Hand,” “Raised Rising Risen” & “Montauk”

~ Recipient of the Copper Nickel Editors’ Prize in Prose ~

Copper Nickel, Spring 2020


“La Rabida Heart Sanitarium, 1954”

~ The Best Small Fictions, 2019 (Anthology) ~

(originally in Sonora Review)



“Cut on the Bias”

~ Nominated for Best of the Net ~

PANK Magazine, 14.2 Fall/Winter 2019



“Distant Fires”

Jet Fuel Review, #17 Spring 2019



“Pictures of Larry”

~ Nominated for The Best Small Fictions Anthology ~

“Big O Challenge” Issue of Jellyfish Review, April 2019


“Love in the Time of Brad Pitt’s First Marriage”

The Journal, 43.1 Winter 2019


“The Vibration Before the Sound”

~ Nominated for Best Small Fictions ~

Little Fiction, November 2018


“Monstrous, Chaotic Things”

~ Nominated for the Pushcart Prize & Best of the Net ~

CHEAP POP, August 2018


“Long Arms”

Cease, Cows, May 2018


“La Rabida Heart Sanitarium, 1954”

~ The Best Small Fictions, 2019 (Anthology) ~

Sonora Review, April 2018


“Wheels and Bushings”

Gulf Coast, March 2018


“Letting Go”

Pithead Chapel, February 2018


“The Places I Tried to Sit”

New Delta Review, December 2017


“Field Effect”

Monkeybicycle, July 2017


“Milk & Honey”

Cease, Cows, June 2017


“Reclaimed Wood”

Atticus Review, May 2017



“The Rule Against Perpetuities”

Wigleaf, March 2017



“God Submits”

Jellyfish Review, January 2017



“Chorionic Villus Sampling with the Virgin Mary”

Bird’s Thumb, Vol. 3, Issue 3, October 2016



“Gifts from My Mother”

Necessary Fiction, August 2016



“The State of the Marriage“

The Timberline Review, No. 2, Winter/Spring 2016


Latest Post

CHARM, Still-Life, and Old Lady Abs

This winter is kicking my ass. I am DRAGGING. It’s partly the brutal cold, it’s partly some health stuff, but it’s mostly the state of the world. I’m heartsick over the violence ICE has perpetrated and the fear that our immigrant and urban communities are living under, particularly in Minneapolis. I’m worried about voter suppression, […]

Featured Work

A bowl of applies on a dark wood surface. Photo credit: Annie Spratt

The Pink Lady, The Honeycrisp

I have a new story, “The Pink Lady, The Honeycrisp,” in Wigleaf today. Wigleaf is one of my very favorite literary magazines; it is a place I go when I need to read something that resonates deeply. I hope my piece resonates in some way with you. I’m grateful to Scott Garson for his smart […]

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