GENRE / LITERARY / CROSS-GENRE
“The Dirty Golden Yellow House“
Lightspeed, October 2022
Notable story for Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy
Listen to this story on the Lightspeed podcast
“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
A nice review in Locus
Reprinted in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2020 Edition
“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
Reprinted in Junior Great Books Grade 8
Here I am reading from the beginning of the story
“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 Otherwise Award
Listen to this story on the Strange Horizons podcast
“The Island”
Gulf Coast, Summer/Fall 2018
“Are You Ready To Go”
The Southern Review, Spring 2018
An interview where I discuss this story
“An Incomplete Timeline of What We Tried”
Terraform, December 2017
A really nice review on Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow
Listen to the story on The Vice Guide to Right Now
“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 where I discuss this story
“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
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”
First printed in The Sun, August 2016
Chosen for Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017
Reprinted in Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, December 2017
MT Cozzola wrote a play When They Came which is based on my story
“Over There“
Alaska Quarterly Review, Spring/Summer 2016
“The Sixth To Last Human Chat Ever Recorded“
Terraform , April 2016
“The Portal“
First printed in The Sun, March 2016
Notable story for Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy
Reprinted in Lightspeed, May 2019
“A Primer on Separation”
Interfictions, Fall 2015
Notable story, storySouth Million Writers Award
“Homesick“
Terraform, 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, 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
Pushcart Prize special mention
Read a nice review on Ploughshare‘s blog
Another nice review from Alaska Dispatch News
“A Bridge To You“
Necessary Fiction, May 2014
“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”
Joyland Magazine 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
Distinguished story of the year, Best American Mystery Stories
“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
KIDS / TEENS
“How to Find an Adventure”
Spider Magazine, February 2020
“The Diary of a Stinkbug”
Spider Magazine, May 2019
“A Child With Your Name”
Spider Magazine, January 2019
“The Case of the Missing Dinosaur”
Highlights Magazine, November 2018
“Too Many Stinkbugs”
Spider Magazine, July 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 2016
“The Partner”
Highlights Magazine, May 2016
Winner, Highlights for Children Fiction Magazine Contest
“Sundown”
Cicada, March 2015
I USED TO WRITE POETRY
“For You”
“There Was Once This Woman Who, at Dawn, Trespassed Across the Sand”
Room, June 2017
“The Circus Woman Who Is Discussing Someone Else’s Idea of Temptation“
Verse Daily / Backwards City Review, 2006