STORIES: GENRE / LITERARY / CROSS-GENRE
- “Excerpt from Sen’s ninth and final notebook, S.+648 days to S.+731 days,” Conjunctions, Fall 2019
- “A Brief Update on Language at the End of the Anthropocene,” Gulf Coast, Winter/Spring 2020
- “Hysteria,” Alaska Quarterly Review, Summer/Fall 2019
- “How To Kiss A Hojacki,” Fantasy & Science Fiction, May/June 2019 (nice review in Locus)
- “The Portal,” (reprint), Lightspeed, May 2019
- “You Are Our Witness,” The Sun, April 2019*
- “What Will You Save Today?” The Sun, February 2019*
- “The Glassblower’s Wife,” The Southern Review, Winter 2019
- “You,” The Sun, January 2019*
- “Games to Play at the End of the Anthropocene,” Terraform, December 2018*
- “Some Personal Arguments in Support of the BetterYou (Based on Early Interactions),” Strange Horizons, November 2018* (longlisted for the 2018 Tiptree Award)
- “The Island,” Gulf Coast, Summer/Fall 2018
- “Are You Ready To Go,” The Southern Review, Spring 2018 (read an interview with me about this story)
- “When They Came To Us,” (reprint), Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, December 2017*
- “An Incomplete Timeline of What We Tried,” Terraform, December 2017 (really nice review on Boing Boing / Cory Doctorow)*
- “A Few Personal Observations On Portals,” The Sun, November 2017*
- “The Interruption,” Terraform, September 2017*
- “How To Find a Portal,” Lightspeed, July 2017* (an interview about this)
- “LK-32-C,” The Kenyon Review, May/June, 2017
- “You Can Go Away Now,” Juked, May 2017*
- “On the Problem of Replacement Children: Prevention, Coping, and Other Practical Strategies,” Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January/February 2017 (an interview with me about this story) (included in Best American Experimental Writing 2020)
- “Two Moons,” The Sun, December, 2016*
- “Safe,” Epoch, Fall 2016
- “The Return,” Terraform, September 2016* (Notable story for Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017)
- “When They Came To Us,” The Sun, August 2016* (chosen for Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017)
- “Over There,” Alaska Quarterly Review, Spring/Summer 2016* (a novella!)
- “The Sixth To Last Human Chat Ever Recorded,” Terraform / Motherboard, April 2016*
- “The Portal,” The Sun, March 2016 (notable story for Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy)*
- “A Primer on Separation,” Interfictions, Fall 2015* (nice review here!) (Notable story, storySouth Million Writers Award)
- “Homesick,” Terraform / Motherboard, September 2015*
- “That’s How Some People Are,” Alaska Quarterly Review, Spring/Summer 2015*
- “Someone Like You,” Michigan Quarterly Review, Spring 2015
- “Four Examples of How To Lose Your Child,” Day One (Amazon), March 2015
- “Re-homing,” Terraform / Motherboard, January 2015*
- “Touch,” Interfictions, 2014* (one of io9’s best stories of the week)
- “Away,” Nature: International Weekly Journal of Science, August 2014*
- “Settlement,” Massachusetts Review, Vol. 55, No. 3, 2014
- “Devotion,” Southern Review, Autumn 2014 (listen to an excerpt)
- “Not Like What You Said,” Alaska Quarterly Review, Fall/Winter 2014* (read nice review on Ploughshare’s blog) (another nice review from Alaska Dispatch News)
- “A Bridge To You,” Necessary Fiction, May 2014* (read a cool review of this story)
- “The Reason for All My Sounds,” Kenyon Review, Spring 2014
- “Subtraction,” Five Chapters, March 2014
- “Willing,” Midwestern Gothic, Spring 2014 / Issue 13
- “The Pleasure Exercises,” Confrontation, Spring 2014 / Issue 115
- “Memorabilia,” Membrane, 2014
- “Some Time Away,” Tin House Open Bar, March 2014*
- “None of It Was a Hoax,” Monkeybicycle, 2014*
- “Distance,” joylandmagazine.com and Joyland Retro, 2013*
- “Wonder,” Interzone, 2012
- “Protest,” Santa Monica Review, 2012
- “Once There Was a Wondering Boy,” Indiana Review, 2012
- “The Move,” New England Review, 2011
- “Taken,” The Southern Review, 2010
- “Provenance,” Alaska Quarterly Review*, 2009
- “Want,” Natural Bridge, 2007
- “The Confession of Adelaide the Great,” Gulf Coast, 2007
- “The Life of Alice Peters, as Told by Herself, the Blessed Alice Peters,” The Sun*, 2003
STORIES: KIDS / TEENS
- “The Diary of a Stinkbug,” May/June 2019, Spider Magazine
- “A Child With Your Name,” January 2019, Spider Magazine
- “The Case of the Missing Dinosaur,” Highlights Magazine, November 2018
- “Too Many Stinkbugs,” Spider Magazine, July/August 2018
- “The Very Very Very Long Hike,” Spider Magazine, April 2018* (nice article that mentions this story)
- “The Opposite of Hero Is Me,” Cicada, November 2017
- “Too Many Dragons,” Spider Magazine, March 2017
- “The Thread,” Cicada, November, 2016
- “16 Definitions of Like (Plus One Aside),” Cicada, July/August 2016
- “The Partner,” Highlights Magazine, May 2016
- “Sundown,” Cicada, March/April 2015 (my first YA sale – whoo-hoo!)
STAGE ADAPTATIONS OF WORK
- When They Came by MT Cozzola, based on my short story “When They Came To Us”
CREATIVE NON-FICTION / ESSAYS
- “Verb (Usually Used With Object),” Gargoyle, issue 68, Spring 2018
- “The Nothing Time: Writing and Reading Through Injury,” The Millions, November 2017*
- “A List of Utopias,” The Sun, April 2017 (reprinted in Fall 2017 Utne Reader*)(Named in the Best American Essays anthology as a Notable Essay and Literary Nonfiction of 2017)
- “My Son Doesn’t Smile for Photos,” Motherwell, September 2016* (reprinted on The Mighty)
- “Why I Stopped Reading Parenting Books,” Brain, Child, June 2016* (reprinted on The Mighty)
- “9 Compensations for Sleeplessness,” Orion, May 2016*
- “Better,” Penny, 2016*
- “The Last Poem I Loved: On Turning Ten, by Billy Collins,” The Rumpus, September 2015*
- Review of Ozma of Oz at HTMLGIANT, October 2014*
- “Apocalypse as Utopia: On Marlen Haushofer’s The Wall,” NER Digital, 2012*
OTHER
- “For You” & “There Was Once This Woman Who, at Dawn, Trespassed Across the Sand,” Room, June 2017 (poetry!)*
- “The Circus Woman Who Is Discussing Someone Else’s Idea of Temptation,” Verse Daily / Backwards City Review, 2006 (this is a poem–I used to write poems!)*
INTERVIEWS / Audio
- The audio from the NYU Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Awards reading, 2019 (I’m at the end, reading from my novel!)
- Q&A for the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, 2019
- The Sun interview, 2019
- Interview with Jestine Ware about writing for children, 2018
- The Southern Review interview, 2018
- Interview with Hege Anita Jakobsen about creative non-fiction/ The Sun, 2017
- Lightspeed interview, July 2017
- Fantasy & Science Fiction interview, January 2017
- Cicada interview, November, 2016
RESIDENCIES / FELLOWSHIPS / AWARDS / ANTHOLOGIES
- Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, 2019
- Best American Experimental Writing 2020, “On the Problem of Replacement Children: Prevention, Coping, and Other Practical Strategies” (forthcoming summer 2020)
- Tiptree Award Long List, 2018, for “Some Personal Arguments in Support of the BetterYou (Based on Early Interactions)”
- Notable Essay and Literary Nonfiction, Best American Essays 2018, “A List of My Utopias”
- Tiptree Award Long List, 2017, for “The Portal,” “The Thread,” “A List of My Utopias,” “How to Find a Portal,” and “A Few Personal Observations About Portals”
- Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017, “When They Came To Us”
- Notable stories, Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017: “The Portal” and “The Return”
- Honorable mention, Glimmer Train’s Family Matters story contest, 2016 (for “Are You Ready To Go”)
- Notable story, storySouth Million Writers Award, 2016 (for “A Primer on Separation”)
- Winner, Highlights for Children Fiction Magazine Contest, 2015
- Finalist, the Canopus Award for Excellence in Interstellar Writing, 2015
- Finalist, Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction for my manuscript of stories That’s How Some People Are, 2014
- Virginia Center for the Creative Arts residency, September 2014
- Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts residency, May 2014
- Story chosen for New Stories from the Midwest 2013 (New American Press), featuring the 20 best stories published that year and set in the Midwest
- Distinguished story of the year, Best American Mystery Stories, 2011
* = entire story is online