Selected Short Fiction Online

• Annalemma :: Pilgrims
• Atticus Review :: GLASS, I Did Not Marry for Love,  The Good Wife
• Barcelona Review :: What They Say About Happily Ever After (novel excerpt)
• Barrelhouse :: Best Features
• Beat the Dust :: Come Find Save Get Me (novel excerpt)
• Booth :: Winesburg, Indiana: Tara Jenkins
• Blip (formerly the Mississippi Review online) :: Baby Arm
• The Caribbean Review of Books :: Lacrimosa
• Catalonian Review, The :: Procedural
• Cobalt Review :: Something Sweet For Someone Good To Hold Onto
• Collagist, The: La Negra Blanca
• Corium :: Inner Geographies
• decomP :: Motherfuckers
• Dark Sky Magazine :: We Are Magnificent
• DIAGRAM :: Little Babies
• DOGZPLOT :: What Long Legs Mean
• Emprise Review :: The Small Tragedies of Children
• Everyday Genius :: Boys in Drag
• Fiddleback, The :: In the Dark of Day and Light of Night I Am Your Bright Shining Star
• Foundling Review, The :: We Didn’t Mind The Fire And We Watched While It All Burned
• Frigg :: Law & Order: The Complete Series
• Frigg :: Very Lovely Ending
• Fringe :: Begin Chest Compressions
• Fwriction Review :: Girls With Eating Disorders
• Good Men Project :: Knife Man
• Guernica :: There is No E in Zombi Which Means There Can Be No You Or Me
• Hobart  :: Brief Encounters With Famous Men, Famous Women, Fictional Men
• Hobart :: Fathers, Sons, Acorns, Oak Trees
• In Digest :: Dead Baby Stories
• JMWW :: His Name Is
• Joyland  :: Break All the Way Down
• Joyland ::  For the Benefit of Others
• Knee Jerk :: Gravity at the End of the World (Notable story, 2009 Million Writers Award)
• kill author :: Important Things to Know About Career Girls
• kill author :: Used People
• Literarian, The :: I Am a Knife
• Matter Press :: We’re Going to Vacation on a Yacht in the Middle of a Deep Blue Ocean
• McSweeney’s Internet Tendency :: I’m Going to Cook a Quiche in My Easy Bake Oven and You Are Going to Like It
• Melville House :: John F Kennedy (Be a Good Boy)
• Monkeybicycle :: Notes on Motorized Carts
• mud luscious :: Other Sisters (Nominated for the Micro Award)
• Necessary Fiction :: Things I Know About Fairy Tales (Notable story, 2009 Million Writers Award)
• Night Train :: Mark of Cain (nominated for the 2010 Million Writers Award)
• Night Train :: The Shape of My Mouth
• 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
• Pindeldyboz :: Between Things (Notable story, 2009 Million Writers Award)
• Red Lightbulbs :: The Dissection of the Human Heart
• Reflection’s Edge :: The Mistress of Baby Breath
• The Reprint :: Contrapasso
• The Reprint :: How
• Rick Magazine (formerly The Mississippi Review Online) :: Baby Arm
• Spork :: Do You Have a Place For Me? (Nominated for Dzanc’s Best of the Web, Notable Story, 2010 Million Writers Award, Top Ten Story Million Writers Award)
• Spork :: La Lonchera
• Staccato Fiction :: Ways in Which Looks Deceive
• Stoked :: How the Girl in Glass Sheds Her Skin :: audio
• Storyglossia :: Bad Priest
• Storyglossia :: We Do Not Speak of Graceful Things
• Storyville :: In the Manner of Water or Light
• Stymie Magazine :: Just Be Nice
• sx salon :: What After Looks Like
• T.J. Eckleburg Review :: The Weight of a Heart in the Palm of My Hand
• Tarpaulin Sky :: You Never Knew How Waters Ran So Cruel So Deep
• Treehouse :: Girl/Box
• Twelve Stories :: This Program Contains Actual Surgical Procedures ((Notable story, 2009 Million Writers Award, Top Ten story, 2009 Million Writers Award)
• Two Serious Ladies :: Lucy Lives in a World of Infinite Possibility 
• Used Furniture Review :: Beautiful Babettte, the Wandering Nymphette
• Used Furniture Review :: The Myth of Fingerprints
• Wag’s Revue :: Satellite, Rain
• Wigleaf :: Apocalypse Story
• Wigleaf :: Dear Wigleaf
• Wigleaf :: Dear Wigleaf
• Wigleaf :: Dear Wigleaf
• Wigleaf :: How it Is
• Wigleaf :: I Know Things About the Girls Next Door
• Wigleaf :: The Widow Takes Her Coffee Black, When I Am Fifteen, I Will Not Fall In Love, and The Anatomy of a Good Woman
• Word Riot :: Bone Density (Notable story, 2009 Million Writers Award)
• Wufniks :: They Shall Know Holy Places
• You Must Be This Tall To Ride :: Perfect Like Normal We Practice

Essays, Reviews and Interviews

In addition to my contributions at HTMLGIANT:

• Bookforum: An Interview with Laird Hunt
• Bookforum: An Interview with Meg Wolitzer
• Bookslut :: An Interview With Tayari Jones
• Bookslut :: An Interview With Dawn Tripp
• Bookslut :: Garish, Glorious, Spectacles
• Bookslut :: I Once Was Miss America
• Bookslut :: Reaching for Catharsis: Getting Fat Right (or Wrong) In Diana Spechler’s Skinny
• Bookslut :: We Must All Be So Strong
• Brevity :: There Are Distances Between Us (Nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
• Buzzfeed: Identity Thief and the Narrow Road  For Overweight Actresses
• Buzzfeed :: Surviving Django
• The Common :: The Super Museum
• The Daily Beast :: The Werewolf Novel as Post-9/11 Allegory?
• Defunct :: May Your Hair Mark the Path Behind You
• Diode ::  Review: Heavy Petting by Gregory Sherl
• Flywheel Magazine :: L’Epee de Damocles (Vehicular Manslaughter
• Full Stop :: Review: With the Animals
• Freerange Nonfiction ::Once I Was Pretty
• Luna Park Review :: I Don’t Know How to Write About Race
• New York Daily News :: Why The Help is Hopeless
• New York Times :: Review, Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
• Reluctant Habits :: Roundtable Discussion of Dana Spiotta’s Stone Arabia
• Rumpus, The :: The Alienable Rights of Women
• Rumpus, The :: Beyond the Measure of Men
• Rumpus, The :: The Careless Language of Sexual Violence
• Rumpus, The :: Dear Young Ladies Who Love Chris Brown So Much They Are Willing To Let Him Beat Them:
• Rumpus, The :: Eleven
• Rumpus, The :: Girls Girls Girls
• Rumpus, The :: How a Wound Heals
• Rumpus, The :: How We All Lose
• Rumpus, The :: An Interview With Blake Butler
• Rumpus, The :: An Interview with Jim Gavin
• Rumpus, The :: An Interview with Julianna Baggott
• Rumpus, The  :: The Last Book I Loved: This Is Not Your City by Caitlin Horrocks
• Rumpus, The :: Peculiar Benefits
• Rumpus, The :: A Play About Post-Racial America in Seven Acts
• Rumpus, The :: A Play About the Men at My Gym in Five Acts
• Rumpus, The :: A Place Where We Are Everything
• Rumpus, The :: The Politics of Entitlement
• Rumpus, The :: Reading Roundup, Fall 2012
• Rumpus, The :: Resolved: A Year of Great(er) Expectations
• Rumpus, The :: The Safety of Illusion/The Illusion of Safety
• Rumpus, The :: The Solace of Preparing Fried Foods and Other Quaint Remembrances from 1960s Mississippi: Thoughts on The Help
• Rumpus, The :: Spit and Mud
• Rumpus, The :: Still With the Scarlet Letters
• Rumpus, The :: A Tale of Three Coming Out Stories
• Rumpus, The :: Toward a More Complete Measure of Excellence 
• Rumpus, The :: Tragedy. Call. Compassion. Response.
• Rumpus, The :: The Trouble With Prince Charming or He Who Trespassed Against Us
• Rumpus, The :: We Are Many, We Are Everywhere
• Rumpus, The :: What We Hunger For
• Rumpus, The :: Where I Write: A Cabin on the Lakefront
• Rumpus, The :: The Whole World, Opened Up
• Salon :: The Anger of the Male Novelist
• Salon :: Daniel Tosh and Rape Jokes: Still Not Funny
• Salon :: Franzen Doesn’t Get Twitter
• Salon :: Interview, Claire Vaye Watkins
• Salon :: Is Obama Failing the Black Community?
• Salon :: Jonah Lehrer Throws It All Away
• Salon :: Sick Culture Cheers Sandusky Verdict
• Salon :: Twitter Isn’t Killing Books
• Salon :: We’ve Made Monsters of Ourselves
• Thought Catalog :: A Brief Retrospective of the Pine-Sol Lady
• Tin House :: A Literary Flyover
• Tin House :: Wants and Needs, A Conversation with Ben Schrank
• The Wall Street Journal :: Is Love (Color) Blind?
• The Wall Street Journal :: One Step Forward, One Step Back

Future Tense

• & Now Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing :: I’m Going to Cook Our Dinner in My Easy Bake Oven And You’re Going to Like It
• Barrelhouse :: Q & A
• Copper Nickel :: Important Things
• Folio :: Girls, Girls, Girls
• Girls on Fire :: Things I Live With
• Goodbye to All That :: Strange Lands
• Inch :: Alone Together
• Minnesota Review :: Open Marriage
• New Stories from the Midwest 2013 :: North Country
• Whiskey Island :: A Little Bit of Nothing
• Word Riot 10th Anniversary Anthology :: The Architecture of Motion

Personal Interviews, etcetera

• Largehearted Boy was kind enough to let me create Book Notes for Ayiti
• At The Kenyon Review I am interviewed by Weston Cutter
• At Vol. 1 Brooklyn I am interviewed by Jason Diamond
• At Dog Eat Crow I am interviewed by Tres Crow.
• At Storyglossia, I am interviewed by assistant editor Anne Valente

Fancyish

• I am represented by Maria Massie of Lippincott Massie McQuilkin
  27 West 20th Street
  Suite 305
  New York, NY 10011
  212.352.2055
• I am the co-editor of PANK and the essays editor for The Rumpus.
• I publish Tiny Hardcore Books.
• I play competitive Scrabble.
• New Pages said nice things about me once.
• This one time, The Atlantic mentioned me on their blog.
• 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.
• Two of my stories were named Notable Stories of 2010 by the storySouth MIllion Writers Award. Similar things happened in 2011.
• Boys in Drag, which originally appeared in Everyday Genius, made the Wigleaf Top 50 for 2011. Two additional stories (Girls at the Bar which appeared in Northville Review and Little Babies which appeared in DIAGRAM 9.6) made the longlist.
• I received five Pushcart nominations for the 2011 Pushcart Prize. I received five Pushcart nominations for the 2012 Puschart Prize. I received four nominations for the 2013 Pushcart Prize.