Stories & Essays

Stories

Available online

“Women Aren’t Funny.” Temz Review, March 2022. (view)

“Stay Home, Stay Safe.” failbetter literary journal, September 2021. (view)

“Adult Crowding,” excerpted. Synesthesia Literary Journal, Volume 4:2, Summer 2016. (view)

“The Warding Charm.” Art Saves Lives International e-Magazine, April 2015. (view)

“Krupov’s Gym”. Witness, Vol. XXIV, No. 3, September 2011. (view)

Print only

“An Uneven Recovery.” Novella-T, Fall 2015.

“Sole Suspect.” Midwestern Gothic: A Literary Journal, Vol. 15, Fall 2014.

“Gold Star Clown Car.” Monologue. In Suspicions: An Investigation of Monologues. From Around Here Productions, producer. Performed May 2014, Mix Studio Theater, Ypsilanti, MI.

“State of Motion.” WomenArts Quarterly, Volume 2, Issue 2, Spring 2012.

“Sex On Celexa.” Epiphany: A Literary Journal, Fall/Winter 2011-2012.

“Down to the Last Kopek”. Nimrod International Journal, Awards 31, Fall/Winter 2009.

“The Lavinia Nude”. Cimarron Review, #169, Fall 2009.

“Zhila’s Lover”. Oleander Review, Issue 2, Fall 2008.

“Kiss”. Orchid: A Literary Review, Number 5, Spring 2005. Anthologized in Unsquared:Ann Arbor Writers Unleash their Edgiest Stories and Poems, Amy Sumerton and Jeff Kass, eds., Ann Arbor, MI: 826michigan and the Neutral Zone, 2006.

Essays

“Performing Hair.” The Summerset Review, Summer 2021.

“Women-Returned.” The Summerset Review, Fall 2019.

“Third and Manageable, or Why I Bought My Son a Rifle.” Midwestern Gothic: A Literary Journal, Issue 23, Fall 2016.

“Chasing Readers, Roads, and Rock and Roll.” Dunes Review, Vol. 19.2, Fall 2015.

“Back from the Crash: Crisis as Transformation, or Why I’m Staying the Hell in Michigan”. Wake: Great Lakes Thought and Culture, 19 September 2012.

Book Reviews

“Revenge Follows Function: A review of The Inhabitants by Beth Castrodale.” Book review in Compulsive Reader, July 2024. (view)

“Kelly Fordon’s I Have the Answer.” Book review in North of Oxford, April 2020. (view)

“Bootstrapping Hope: Dorene O’Brien’s What it Might Feel Like to Hope.” Book review in North of Oxford, April 2019. (view)