Other Writing

Nonfiction

“Postpartum”, Hindsight 2020, 2023.

“Breastfeeding and the Early Sacrifices of Motherhood” (read online), Momegg Review, 2023

“I/You/Me”, Motherwell (online). 2022

“Tiny Doable Things” Poets and Writers (read online), 2021

“Craft Capsules” Poets and Writers (read online), 2021

“How Playing Myst’ Taught Me To Write Fiction” (read online), Electric Literature, 2020

“September 17, 2010” Past 10 (read online), 2020

“Unsung Women” (read online), The Millions, 2018

“The Uneasy Yoke” (read online), Guernica, 2018

“Surviving 8th Grade: How a Shy Irish Catholic Girl Found Refuge in Yiddish Club” (read online), Salon, 2018

“In My Mother’s Jewelry Box, A Wish” (read online), Romper, 2018

“The Best Stories Break At Least One of Their Own Rules” (read online), Lit Hub, 2018

“My Mother is Gone, but Her Edits Remain”, (read online), Lit Hub, 2017

Fiction

Published

“The World was Ending and the Popcorn Wasn’t Ready”, Neon, 2022

“The Mother Compact”, Phoebe, 2021 (nominated for Pushcart Prize)

“The Annotations”, The New England Review, 2021

“The Disappearing Place”, Story, 2021 (nominated for Pushcart Prize)

“The Telepathist” (read online), New Letters, 2021; listed as a Distinguished Story in Best American Short Stories 2022

“Hockey Girls”, Prairie Schooner, 2020

“The Religious Woman”, Funicular, 2020; Silver Medal, Alberta Magazine Award

“Pregnant Doxology” (read online), Joyland, 2020

“The Falls”, Michigan Quarterly Review, 2020

“How to Become a Nun” (read online), Electric Literature, 2019 (nominated for Pushcart Prize)

“Casper, Wyoming” (read online), Wigleaf, 2019; (nominated for Pushcart Prize; anthologized in Best Small Fictions 2020)

“The Retreat Welcomes You”, Ninth Letter, 2019; anthologized in The Orison Anthology

“These Things Happen Here”, The Georgia Review, 2018; finalist for American Society of Magazine Editors’ Award

“The Home for Buddhist Widows”, West Branch, 2018; Winner of Pushcart Prize and published in Pushcart Prize anthology

“The Replacement Wife”, The Pinch, 2018; fiction contest winner

“Cavers”, River Styx, 2018

“Whitetails”, Mid-American Review, 2017

“The Girl”, Cosmonauts Avenue, 2017

“The Gone Year”, The Worcester Review, 2016

“The Way We Meet”, Fugue, 2016

“Inland Sea”, Tahoma Literary Review, 2016

“The Stories You Tell”, Washington Square Review, 2015

“Decide”, The Butter, 2015

“That Thing You’re Thinking”, Hayden’s Ferry Review, 2015

“I’m Writing a Story”, Bluestem, 2015

“The Visitation”, Narrative Northeast, 2014

“Enjoy Our Fair City”, Nerve Cowboy, 2013

“The Eight-Spoked Wheel”, A Bad Penny Review, 2013