Published Work
Books:
May We Shed These Human Bodies – debut full-length short story collection
Shut Up/Look Pretty (Tiny Hardcore Press anthology) – chapbook entitled A GREAT DARK SLEEP: Stories for the Next World
Anthology of Etiquette and Terrifying Angels with Many Heads – You Don’t Speak to the Angel
Gravity Dancers: An Anthology of Fiction by Wash. Women – As They Always Are
Essays:
Press Play – Awake in a Sea of Sleepers: How Insomnia Made Me Love Horror Films
The Rumpus – Seeking Grace in Strange Places
HTMLGIANT – How NOT to Put A Short Story Collection Together
Published Short Fiction:
Barrelhouse Mag- The Fires of Western Heaven (forthcoming)
The Fiddleback – The Kingdom of July
The Collagist – Birds with Teeth
Corium Magazine – This Circus the World
Journal of Compressed Creative Arts – And the World Was Crowded with Things That Meant Love
Stymie Magazine – Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter
The Good Man Project – Study for the New Fictional Science
Dark Sky Magazine – We Were a Storybook Back Then
Unsaid – The Effect of all that Light Upon You
Fawlt Magazine – We Would Like to Boil You in Oil
elimae – The Only Story in the World
Smokelong Quarterly – Never Never
Gargoyle – The Woman Across the Water Wore the Shape of Love (print)
Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens – Death and the People
Big Lucks – Five Kinds of Human History (print)
Thunderclap (Spring ’11 Issue) – The Man Remembers How to be a Person (print)
Stoked Journal - Some of Our More Useful Planets
trnsfr - The World After This One (print)
PANK online – A Bright Brief Fire to Sweep the World Clean
PANK 5 – How to be Modern (print)
Zine Scene Reprint – You Will be the Living Equation & Tour of the Cities We’ve Lost
Necessary Fiction (co-author: Robert Kloss) – What we Dream About the Fathers
Dark Sky – Until Your Carcass Hits the Canvas
Corium – All the Imaginary People are Better at Life
Used Furniture Review – This is a Door
Barrelhouse Online – Most of Them Would Follow Wandering Fires (nominated for Pushcart Prize)
Wigleaf – Vesuvius
Bluestem Magazine – The Poet in Convalescence
Annalemma – You Will Be the Living Equation (print only, reprinted here in Z.S.)
Unsaid – Tour of the Cities We’ve Lost (print only, reprinted here in Zine Scene)
Lamination Colony – Our Father Of Nerve Gas Sends His Best
HTMLGiant – For Those Humans Who Cannot Fly
For Every Year – Henry III is Crowned King of France at Rheims
New York Tyrant – These are Broken, Funny Days (print)
Buffalo’s Art Voice – May We Shed These Human Bodies (nominated for Dzanc BOTW)
New Dead Families – To Make Us Whole
Necessary Fiction – Be Like Us and We Will Like You Maybe
> kill author – What Happened to the Bishop’s Daughter
Everyday Genius – The City Outside of Itself
Dark Sky (read by Mel Bosworth) – The Wives Are Turning Into Animals
Splinter Generation – Gone and Gone Already (nominated for Dzanc BOTW)
Grist: A Journal for Writers – Everyone’s a Winner at Meadow Park (print also available)
matchbook - The Monstrous Sadness of Mythical Creatures
A capella Zoo Issue 4 – When the Weather Changes You (print also available)
Monkeybicycle (web) – Four Feet Eleven Inches
Midway Journal – How to Dispose of a Chorus Girl
The Collagist – Feral Children: A Collective History
PANK - Storage Space
TripleQuick Fiction- Morning Blank
decomP – When Other People’s Lives Fall into Your Lap (nominated for Pushcart Prize)
Wigleaf – A History of Heart Disease
Monkeybicycle (web)- To a Young British Soldier in the Trenches at Ypres
Annalemma (web)- The Dictator is Drinking Alone
JMWW – Notions, Childish and True
Mud Luscious – Our Mechanically Separated Story
Titular - Cocoon
Storyglossia – If You Don’t Believe, They Go Away
Necessary Fiction - The Chemistry of Objects
Cell Stories – Beautiful Baby
Lumberyard Magazine – On Profanity (print)
