SHORT FICTION
“Bystanding” appears in the 2024 spring/summer issue of the Iowa Review (out fall 2024.)
"You and Your Healthy Libido" appeared in Ninth Letter.
"Between Ship and Ice" appeared in One Story.
"Escape and Reverse" is a Ploughshares Solo. You can find it as a standalone or in the Ploughshares Solos Omnibus.
"The Ice House" appeared in queer lit journal Gertrude.
"Pinhead, Moonhead," the first story I ever published, came out in Ploughshares and appeared on NPR's Selected Shorts, read by Cynthia Nixon.
"Devices" appeared in the journal Avery Anthology (then edited by Emma Straub and designed by Mike Fusco, powerhouse team), which is no longer with us but had a fantastic run.
RECENT NONFICTION
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This essay about my deepening intimacy with the wild around me—and my feelings for a little herd of pronghorn neighbors—appeared in Elle’s collection of dispatches from a year of quarantine.
An essay for the How We Are project, reckoning anew with time itself during the early months of quarantine.
A short piece about my adventurous hitchhiking mom at 19 appears in Edan Lepucki’s beautiful anthology Mothers Before.
I reviewed Nicole Dennis-Benn’s stunning novel Patsy for the New York Times Book Review.
The essay “We Can Pretend” appears in a special portfolio in Gulf Coast 31.2, edited by Justin Torres.
"Queer Scenes," part craft essay and part personal essay, appears in Out Magazine.
"Writing Home," about Minnesota, Oregon, and the necessary pain of leaving a place you love in order to write about it, for Powell's Books.
Over at Hilobrow, I've written about Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For, the movie The Blob, a lost notebook, the Swedish tween punk geniuses in Vi Är Bäst!, Team Dresch's 1995 album Personal Best, Breyer model horses , and the amazing monotremes (the original was three times as long, I could really go on and on about these), plus contributed a card to the Hermenautic Tarot.
"Silhouettes," about shooting a gun for the first time, in The Rumpus.
"Take Flight" at Airplane Reading, now collected in a handsome flight-friendly anthology from Zero Books.
A short lyric essay called "Feral Roads," co-written with KT Thompson, appears in Leaf Litter, the annual art and lit journal from Signal Fire.
An in-depth interview with Eileen Myles in The Rumpus.
"Variable Rewards," an essay about an unexpected catcall and queer awakening, appeared in the art and literature anthology Qs edited by Sarah Faith Gottesdiener.
I wrote the chapter "Rock Out," sharing what I learned from many summers volunteering for the Rock'n'Roll Camp for Girls, for the great kids' book Unbored.