Writing

Present Tense

Print

  • A cappella Zoo :: Requiem for a Glass Heart
  • Annalemma 6 :: How (nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
  • Artifice :: Contrapasso
  • Best American Erotica 2004 :: A Cool Dry Place
  • Broken Plate, The :: Technicolor Girl
  • DOGZPLOT Flash Fiction Anthology 2009 :: Simulacrum
  • Emerson Review :: Perfect Teeth Make a Pretty Smile
  • Gargoyle 56 :: How the Girl in the Glass Sheds Her Skin
  • Mid-American Review 30 :: Down to Bone
  • Sententia 1 :: Ever. Happily. After
  • Weave No. 3:: Cheap, Fast, Filling
  • Wrong Tree Review :: Other Blood

    • Online

  • amphibi.us :: In the Event of My Father’s Death
  • Annalemma :: Pilgrims
  • Bananafish :: Bad Seed
  • Camroc Press Review :: Fragile Moments Sometimes Linger
  • Catalonian Review, The :: Procedural
  • Collagist, The: La Negra Blanca
  • Corium :: Inner Geographies
  • decomP :: Motherfuckers
  • Dark Sky Magazine :: Support Group
  • DIAGRAM :: Little Babies
  • DOGZPLOT:: The Gentle Application of Two Fingers to the Back of the Throat
  • DOGZPLOT :: Homeland Handwashing
  • DOGZPLOT :: What Long Legs Mean
  • elimae :: Tender Mercies
  • Emprise Review :: The Small Tragedies of Children
  • Everyday Genius :: Boys in Drag
  • Foghorn Magazine :: Notes on a First Date
  • Foundling Review, The :: There Are Things I Need You to Know
  • Foundling Review, The :: We Didn’t Mind The Fire And We Watched While It All Burned
  • Hobart :: Fathers, Sons, Acorns, Oak Trees
  • JMWW :: His Name Is
  • JMWW :: The Intrinsic Subjectivity of Modern Romance
  • Keyhole :: The Lesser Known Sibling Girl Gang
  • Keyhole :: Problems Girls With Pretty Faces Face (October 2009)
  • Knee Jerk :: Gravity at the End of the World
  • kill author :: Important Things to Know About Career Girls
  • >kill author :: Used People
  • Legendary, The :: Four Poems
  • Lit N Image :: What You Say, What Is Done To You
  • LitSnack :: Men Don’t Leave Me
  • Luna Park Review :: I Don’t Know How to Write About Race
  • Mammoth Book of Tales From the Road, The :: The Myth of Fingerprints
  • McSweeney’s Internet Tendency :: I’m Going to Cook a Quiche in My Easy Bake Oven and You Are Going to Like It
  • Metazen :: A Brief Accounting of What Took Place When Dottie Kauppi Won $67,000 on the Deluxe Double Diamond Mine Slot Machine
  • Monkeybicycle :: Notes on Motorized Carts
  • Monkeybicycle:: Other People’s Children
  • Monkeybicycle:: Gym Story
  • mud luscious :: Other Sisters (Nominated for the Micro Award)
  • Necessary Fiction :: A Bedtime Story For Adults
  • Necessary Fiction :: Things I Know About Fairy Tales
  • Night Train :: Mark of Cain
  • Northville Review, The :: Girls at the Bar
  • Northville Review, The :: I Want to Sit Courtside at a Lakers Game
  • Northville Review, The :: Queries Involving Tyler Perry, Difficult Decisions and Two Skanks
  • Pear Noir! :: In the Event of My Father’s Death
  • Pindeldyboz :: Between Things
  • Reflection’s Edge :: The Mistress of Baby Breath
  • Rick Magazine (formerly The Mississippi Review Online) :: Baby Arm
  • Rumble :: Up on the Roof of Tall Tall Buildings
  • Rumpus, The :: A Play About Post-Racial America in Seven Acts
  • Rumpus, The :: A Play About the Men at My Gym in Five Acts
  • Sleep.Snort.F*ck. :: I Call This Happiness
  • Sleep.Snort.F*ck :: I Will Not Love You Today
  • Sleep.Snort.F*ck :: Things I Live With
  • Spork :: Do You Have a Place For Me?
  • Spork :: La Lonchera
  • Staccato Fiction :: Ways in Which Looks Deceive
  • Storyglossia :: Bad Priest
  • Storyglossia :: We Do Not Speak of Graceful Things
  • Super Arrow :: How to Mourn a Celebrity Death
  • Thirst for Fire :: A Field Guide for Nocturnal Vehicular Deer Hunting
  • Twelve Stories :: This Program Contains Actual Surgical Procedures
  • Wigleaf :: Dear Wigleaf
  • Wigleaf :: How it Is
  • Wigleaf :: I Know Things About the Girls Next Door
  • Women Writers :: Sex in a Sleep Number Bed
  • Word Riot :: Bone Density
  • Writer’s Bloc :: How to: On the Concealment of Sociopathic Tendencies
  • You Must Be This Tall To Ride :: Perfect Like Normal We Practice

    • Future Tense

    • Annalemma :: Five Pieces of a Broken Heart
    • Big Muddy :: Baby Arm
    • Cream City Review :: We Are All So Happy Now
    • Defunct :: May Your Hair Mark the Path Behind You
    • Esque :: I Pick Fights. I Dig at Scabs. I Draw Blood.
    • Esque :: Technicolor Girl
    • Guernica :: There is No E in Zombi Which Means There Can Be No You Or Me
    • Hobart 12 :: North Country
    • Kevin Donihe, Agape Walrus :: Kevin Donihe, Agape Walrus
    • Monkeybicycle 7 :: The Weight of Water
    • Moon Milk Review Anthology :: The Anger of Others
    • The Norton Anthology of Hint Fiction :: The Copper Miner’s Sad Sad Song
    • One Ded Cow :: Packed
    • RE:Telling :: Alias, The Complete Series or Some Hearts Beat Fainter Than Others.
    • Rough Copy :: More Hers Than His
    • Sententia 2 :: Fat Girl’s Rhapsody
    • Tarpaulin Sky :: You Never Knew How Waters Ran So Cool So Deep
    • Uncanny Valley :: Bare-chested Men in Public Make Me Uncomfortable
    • Tell: An Anthology of Expository Narrative :: This Program Contains Actual Surgical Procedures

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    Fancy

    • New Pages says things about me.
    • Six of my stories were named Notable Stories of 2009 by the storySouth Million Writers Award. One of them made the top ten and another made the shortlist.
    • In June 2010, I was the Writer In Residence at Necessary Fiction. You can see what I did here.
    • I am on the Board of Directors of Artifice Magazine.
    • I am represented by Sarah LaPolla of Curtis Brown, Ltd.