Selected Short Fiction

“Bad Person,” Michigan Quarterly Review, forthcoming

“Deviants,” Subtropics, forthcoming

“Legacy,” Southern Humanities Review, forthcoming

“The Emptyman,” West Branch, Fall 2025

“The Joke,” Ploughshares, Summer 2025, guest-edited by Victor LaValle (Pushcart nominee)

“Bold Moves,” The Southern Review, Winter 2025 (read an interview about the story)

“The Fetch,” The Missouri Review, Fall 2023 (distinguished story, Best American Short Stories 2024 )

“The Oracle,” Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, July 31, 2023 (Pushcart Prize Special Mention)

“The Favor,” Colorado Review, Spring 2023

“The Horrors of the World,” Copper Nickel, Spring 2023

“Fête de la Musique,” Beloit Fiction Journal, Spring 2022, vol 35

“Grand Mal,” Kenyon Review, Jan/Feb 2022 (selected by Min Jin Lee for inclusion in Best American Short Stories 2023)

"Mr. Forble," Salamander, Summer 2020 (selected by Alafair Burke for inclusion Best American Mystery and Suspense 2021)

"Rome," Sewanee Review, Summer 2020 (distinguished story, Best American Short Stories 2021)

"Amo, Amas, Amat," Subtropics, Spring/Summer 2020 (distinguished story, Best American Short Stories 2021)

"Dear Shadows," Crazyhorse (now swamp pink), issue 96, Fall 2019 (distinguished story, Best American Short Stories 2020)

"The Films of Roman Polanski," Cincinnati Review, Summer 2019 (interview about the story)

"The Whaler's Wife," Colorado Review, Fall/Winter 2018 (distinguished story, Best American Short Stories 2019)

"Ouro Preto," Ecotone, Fall/Winter 2018

"Higher Things," Alaska Quarterly Review, Summer/Fall 2018

"Romantics," Kenyon Review Online, July/Aug 2018

"The Private Collection," Shenandoah, Spring 2018

"Rumpelstiltskin," Copper Nickel, Fall 2017

"Fox Foot," Mississippi Review, Summer 2017 (distinguished story, Best American Short Stories 2018, finalist for Mississippi Review Fiction Prize)

"Every Human Love," The Hopkins Review, Spring 2017

"The Scare," Joyland, February 2017

"Changeling," Blackbird, Fall 2014 (distinguished story, Best American Short Stories 2015)