Publications
From the past to the present:
“You’re An Ugly Crier” - The Doctor TJ Eckleburg Review (Fall 2012 online, Eckleburg Issue Eighteen in print, Print):
“Dracula in Six Movements” - Knee-Jerk Magazine (October 31st 2012)
“The Black Stallion Exposed (3 Flash Fiction Pieces about Horses)” - Ghost Ocean Magazine September 2012)
“The Tragic Jet-Ski Accident of 2011” - > kill author Issue Nineteen
Another” - SmokeLong Quarterly Issue 40
“To Consider When Missing Your Sisters” - Identity Theory
“The Eleventh Floor Ghost” - SmokeLong Quarterly Issue 41
Twenty-Five Minute Wait” - SmokeLong Quarterly Issue 42
“The Tiny Woman Who Hates You”- SmokeLong Quarterly Issue 43
“Earthbound” - The Chicago Tribune Printers Row Journal (print)
“The Brothers Wham!” - The Masters Review: New Voices
“Roy Orbison Saved from Heart Failure - Moon City Review (print)
“You’re an Ugly Crier” - (reprint) in The Literary Review
“One Five, Three Ones” -MARY: A Journal of New Writing
“Dream Lover”- NANO Fiction Issue 8.1, Audio Recording Online
“Lower Your Muzzle” - Wigleaf, November 2014
“Goodbye, Piano“ - matchbook, February 16 2015
“Twenty-Five Minute Wait” (Reprinted) - Oxford Magazine March 2015 (30 Year Celebration Issue), March 2015
”We Love the Thin White Duke“ - Mojo 8, April 2015
“We Love the Thin White Duke” - Mikrokosmos Journal Issue 61, Print, May 2015
“A - K = A + V (Anna Karenina 2015)“ - Vestal Review’s Condensed to Flash Anthology, June 1, 2015
“Near and Distant Lights” - Sou’wester, Print, June 8, 2015
”Arcade Seventeen” - Quarterly West Issue 85, Online, June 9, 2015
“I Invented Longing” - Crab Orchard Review, Twentieth Anniversary Issue, Print, September 2nd
“Every Bump, Every Stone” - Amazon Day One, September 2, 2015
“Double Exposure”- The Masters Review (October Showcase Feature), October 9, 2015
“The New Audacious Line” - New South
“Reunion” - [PANK]
“A Very Mario Lopez Christmas” - Barrelhouse
“Between Heart and Sternum” - Gargoyle, Print, February 2016
“Three Boyfriends” - Passages North, Print, Issue 37 February 2016
“The Alive Sister” - The Offing, March 14, 2016
“Upright Death” - Bat City Review
“Milk and Eggs” - Blue-Fifth Review, special flash fiction issue edited by Sara Lippmann
"Ice Pop" - Witchcraft Issue 3, September 22nd 2016
Put A Picture Of You On My Wall" - Ghost Ocean (Online) Issue 19, October 2016 (a preview of The Most Dangerous Game)
“Nature Growing Out My Bones” - Black Warrior Review (Print and Online) October 2016
"Again and Again and Again" - Threadcount (Online), November 2016 (preview of Arcade Seventeen!)
“We Are a Remake of a Movie Starring Michael Keaton and Andie MacDowell” - Big Lucks, Online, December 2016.
The Most Dangerous Game - Lettered Street Press Dual Chapbook Series Vol. 3, split book with Lo Kwa Mei-en, December 2016
I can feel the afterglow- Platypus Press 2412 Micro-Chapbook, Online only, December 2016
Arcade Seventeen - TAR: Chapbook Series, January 2017
“The Disappointing Earth” - Pleiades Human Future Fiction Feature (Print), January 2017
"You Have To Pay For That" - Tin House (Open Bar): Flash Fridays, February 2017
"Brittle”- Arts & Letters Issue 37 (Print)
"Protesting in 2017" - Boulevard, Issue 97 (Print), September 2017
"You Are The Shackles, You Are The Bonds" - TERRITORY: Prisons Issue, Fall 2017
"Vacations" + short craft essay - CRAFT, Winter 2018
"Balance" - Columbia Journal (Online), June 2018
A Husband Should Be Eaten And Not Heard" - Split Lip, June 2018
"Milk And Eggs (Reprint)" - National Flash Fiction Day Anthology 2018
"Desert Island Diet" - The Adroit Journal, August 2018
“FOUR NEW NATIONAL HOLIDAYS TO BEGIN THE PROCESS OF BETTERING AMERICAN CULTURE”- Barrelhouse: Fall of Men Online Issue, October 2018.
“Watch Out, The World's Behind You" - Gulf Coast 31.1
“Whatever Doesn’t Kill Me” - Catapult
"The Sixth Door" - The Iowa Review, Fall 2019
“The Children And The Leg Found In June” - The Southeast Review, Winter/Spring 2020 (Digital and Print)
“Displacement” - Story Magazine, Winter/Spring 2020
Lakewood (Amistad/HarperCollins)
“Solace” - The Paris Review: Daily
Anthologies:
“The Brothers Wham!” in Best of the Net 2014 (March 2015) edited by Lily Hoang.
“A -K = A + V” in Condensed to Flash (June 2015).
“Reunion” in Best Small Fictions 2016 edited by Stuart Dybek.
“Goodbye, Piano” in Best Small Fictions 2016 edited by Stuart Dybek.
Spotlight Interview between me and Best Small Fictions 2016 series editor, Tara Masih.
"Three Boyfriends" was included in The Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2017.
Awards and Near Awards:
Kathy Fish Fellow 2013-2014 and Writer-in-Residence at Smokelong Quarterly
“Afterschool Special” was named an Honorable Mention in The Cincinnati Review’s Robert and Adele Schiff Prizes in Poetry and Prose in 2013
“Highways” was a finalist in Sycamore Review’s 2015 Flash Fiction Contest
“Brittle” was a finalist in The Crab Orchard Review’s 2015 Charles Johnson Fiction Award
“Last Meals” was a finalist in Mid-American Review’s 2015 Sherwood Anderson Awards
“Upright Death” was a runner-up in Bat City Review’s 2016 Short Prose Contest.
"The New Audacious Line" was a finalist for the 2016 Best of the Net anthology.
"Again & Again & Again" was a finalist for the 2017 Best Small Fictions anthology.
“Brittle” was a distinguished story in Best American Short Stories 2018.
“A Husband Should Be Eaten and Not Heard” was included in the 2018 Best of the Net anthology.
Readings/Panels/Etc:
Gazing Grain, Switchback Books, The Atlas Review, No Dear Reading at AWP 16 with YNTHIA ARRIEU-KING, MAHOGANY L. BROWNE, MARISA CRAWFORD, TAFISHA EDWARDS, CHRISTINE KANOWNIK, ALYSE KNORR, ANNE LESLEY SELCER. (Thursday, March 31)
Passages North/New South (North/South) Reading at AWP 16 with Michael Martone, Kathy Fish, Zach Doss, and Kelly McGee. (Friday, April 1)
A Paul Asta/Megan Giddings/Scott Fenton Garbage Fest- December 18, 2016
Bards & Brews sponsored by NMU's MFA Program - March 16, 2017
The Fifth Annual Rock & Roll Reading - March 7, 2018. Reservoir Bar. Tampa Florida/AWP 2018.
The Atlas Review/The Offing Reading - March 9, 2018. Cavu. AWP 2018.
Who Are We Writing For? Who Are We Writing Toward? Presenting wth Bix Gabriel, T Kira Madden, R.O. Kwon, and Ursula Villarreal-Moura. -March 10th, AWP 2018
Nominations:
Pushcart Prize Nomination 2012 for the 2013 Awards: “You’re an Ugly Crier” - The Doctor TJ Eckleburg Review
Best of the Net 2013 Nomination: “The Black Stallion Considers His Name” - Ghost Ocean Magazine
Pushcart Prize Nomination 2015 for “Goodbye, Piano” matchbook
Best Small Fictions 2016 Nomination for “Goodbye, Piano” matchbook
Best of the Net 2016 Nomination for "The New Audacious Line" from New South
Best of the Net 2016 Nomination for "The Alive Sister" from The Offing
Pushcart Prize Nomination 2017 for "You Are The Shackles, You Are The Bonds" from Territory
Best Small Fictions 2018 Nomination for “A Husband Should Be Eaten And Not Heard” from Split Lip
Best Small Fictions 2018 Nomination for “FOUR NEW NATIONAL HOLIDAYS TO BEGIN THE PROCESS OF BETTERING AMERICAN CULTURE” from Barrelhouse
Best Small Fictions 2018 Nomination for “Vacations” from Craft
Interviews:
Kathy Fish Fellowship Follow-up Interview at SmokeLong Quarterly
Interview about “The Eleventh Floor Ghost” at SmokeLong Quarterly
Fall 2016, A Visual Interview with Fear No Lit
Playing The Most Dangerous Game with Megan Giddings - Maudlin House
Bodies, Costumes, and Dreams: An Interview with Megan Giddings - Vol 1 Brooklyn
Reviews and/or features of my work:
My story “We Love the Thin White Duke” from MOJO 8 and Mikrokosmos 61 is discussed in this review: http://www.thereviewreview.net/reviews/online-magazine-home-weird-imaginative-and-beautiful
“The Alive Sister” from The Offing was featured in The Rumpus’s “This Week in Short Fiction” column: http://therumpus.net/2016/03/this-week-in-short-fiction-81/
"Three Boyfriends" from Passages North Issue 37 is mentioned in this review of the entire issue.
Contest Judging:
July 1-14 2016: Tethered by Letters' #Blink Very Short Stories Twitter Contest
Construction Lit 2019 Literary Contest
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