FORTHCOMING AND SO EXCITING
IT IS GETTING ITS OWN SECTION

• After World, which is my first novel!!!
  To be published by Simon & Schuster in Spring 2024 

STORIES: GENRE /  LITERARY / CROSS-GENRE

• “The Dirty Golden Yellow House,” Lightspeed, October 2022* 
• “How To Remain Safe During A Conversation If You’re Somebody’s Wife,” Uncharted, September 2021*
• “Long May My Land Be Bright,” New England Review , 2021 (named a distinguished story in the Best American Short Stories anthology)
• “A Brief Update on Language at the End of the Anthropocene,” Gulf Coast, Winter/Spring 2020
• “Excerpt from Sen’s ninth and final notebook, S.+648 days to S.+731 days,” Conjunctions, Fall 2019
• “Hysteria,” Alaska Quarterly Review, Summer/Fall 2019
• “How To Kiss A Hojacki,” Fantasy & Science Fiction, May/June 2019 (nice review in Locus) (reprinted in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2020 Edition)
• “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) (Pushcart Prize special mention)
• “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

CREATIVE NON-FICTION / ESSAYS 

• “The Cave,” Alaska Quarterly Review, Winter / Spring 2023  [nice review in the Anchorage Daily News]
• “The Picnic Pavilion,” Granta, Winter 2022*
• “Romantic Landscape With Ruin,” Terrain.org [a nature essay!]*
• “The Rooms In Which I Waited,” The Rupture, 2021*
• “Inheritance,” The Sun, June 2021* (named as a notable essay in the Best American Essays and the Best American Science and Nature Writing anthologies) 
• “Dialogue Box,” Alaska Quarterly Review  [memoir as drama] [nice review in the Anchorage Daily News]
• “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 as a notable essay in the Best American Essays anthology)
• “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*

STORIES: KIDS / TEENS

• “How to Find an Adventure,” February 2020, Spider Magazine
• “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”

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

• Lightspeed interview 2, October 2022
• A short video in which I read from the short story “You,” part of the Alaska Quarterly Review benefit reading series (here is the full reading which includes excellent work by both Lee Conell and Jerome Charyn)
• 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
• Lightspeed interview, July 2017
• Fantasy & Science Fiction interview, January 2017

RESIDENCIES / FELLOWSHIPS / AWARDS / ANTHOLOGIES

• Notable essay, Best American Science and Nature Writing 2022, “Inheritance”
• Distinguished story, Best American Short Stories 2022, “Long May My Land Be Bright”
• Notable essay, Best American Essays 2022, “Inheritance”
• Terraform: Watch / Worlds / Burn, an anthology that includes my story “An Incomplete Timeline of What We Tried,” published by MCD x FSG Originals, 2022 
• The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2020 Edition: “How To Kiss A Hojacki” 
• Story included in Junior Great Books Grade 8 (2020): “You”
• Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, 2019 
• Best American Experimental Writing 2020, “On the Problem of Replacement Children: Prevention, Coping, and Other Practical Strategies” 
• Tiptree Award Long List, 2018, for “Some Personal Arguments in Support of the BetterYou (Based on Early Interactions)” 
• Notable essay, 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”
• Special mention, Pushcart Prize XL 2016, “Not Like What You Said”
• 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