Short Fiction Online

• amphibi.us :: In the Event of My Father’s Death
• Annalemma :: Pilgrims
• Bananafish :: Bad Seed
• Barcelona Review :: What They Say About Happily Ever After (novel excerpt)
• Barrelhouse :: Best Features
• Beat the Dust :: Come Find Save Get Me (novel excerpt)
• Blip (formerly the Mississippi Review online) :: Baby Arm
• Buffalo ArtVoice :: Ayudame
• Camroc Press Review :: Fragile Moments Sometimes Linger
• The Caribbean Review of Books :: Lacrimosa
• Catalonian Review, The :: Procedural
• Collagist, The: La Negra Blanca
• Corium :: Inner Geographies
• decomP :: Motherfuckers
• Dark Sky Magazine :: Support Group
• Dark Sky Magazine :: We Are Magnificent
• 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 Childre
• Esque :: I Pick Fights. I Dig at Scabs. I Draw Blood. (Give the site a minute to load)
• Esque :: Technicolor Girl
• Everyday Genius :: Boys in Drag
• Fiddleback, The :: In the Dark of Day and Light of Night I Am Your Bright Shining Star
• 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
• 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 :: Fathers, Sons, Acorns, Oak Trees
• In Digest :: Dead Baby Stories
• JMWW :: His Name Is
• JMWW :: The Intrinsic Subjectivity of Modern Romance
• Joyland ::  For the Benefit of Others
• 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 (Notable story, 2009 Million Writers Award)
• 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
• 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
• Metazen :: A Brief Accounting of What Took Place When Dottie Kauppi Won $67,000 on the Deluxe Double Diamond Mine Slot Machine
• Monkeybicycle :: The Keenan Gospels
• 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 (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
• Rough Copy :: Things Have Been Damaged
• Rumble :: Up on the Roof of Tall Tall Buildings
• 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
• Specter Magazine :: The Uncanny Fate of Objects
• 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
• Tarpaulin Sky :: You Never Knew How Waters Ran So Cruel So Deep
• Thirst for Fire :: A Field Guide for Nocturnal Vehicular Deer Hunting
• 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
• 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
• Women Writers :: Sex in a Sleep Number Bed
• Wonderfort :: I Did Not Marry For Love
• Word Riot :: Bone Density (Notable story, 2009 Million Writers Award)
• Writer’s Bloc :: How to: On the Concealment of Sociopathic Tendencies
• 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:

• Bookslut :: An Interview With Tayari Jones
• 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)
• Defunct :: May Your Hair Mark the Path Behind You
• Diode ::  Review: Heavy Petting by Gregory Sherl
• Flywheel Magazine :: L’Epee de Damocles (Vehicular Manslaughter
• Freerange Nonfiction ::Once I Was Pretty
• Luna Park Review :: I Don’t Know How to Write About Race
• Reluctant Habits :: Roundtable Discussion of Dana Spiotta’s Stone Arabia
• Rumpus, The :: Dear Young Ladies Who Love Chris Brown So Much They Are Willing To Let Him Beat Them:
• Rumpus, The :: An Interview With Blake Butler
• Rumpus, The  :: The Last Book I Loved: This Is Not Your City by Caitlin Horrocks
• 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 :: The Careless Language of Sexual Violence
• Rumpus, The :: Resolved: A Year of Great(er) Expectations
• Rumpus, The :: The Solace of Preparing Fried Foods and Other Quaint Remembrances from 1960s Mississippi: Thoughts onThe Help
• Rumpus, The :: Still With the Scarlet Letters
• Rumpus, The :: Toward a More Complete Measure of Excellence 
• Rumpus, The :: Tragedy. Call. Compassion. Response.
• Rumpus, The :: Where I Write: A Cabin on the Lakefront
• Salon :: The Anger of the Male Novelist
• Sententia 2 :: Fat Girl’s Rhapsody (nominated for a 2011 Pushcart Prize)
• Super Arrow :: How to Mourn a Celebrity Death
• Thought Catalog :: A Brief Retrospective of the Pine-Sol Lady

Future Tense

• American Short Fiction :: We Are the Sacrifice of Darkness
• Anobium :: Handsome Men Who Love Ugly Women
• Atticus Review :: GLASS
• Best American Short Stories 2012 :: North Country
• Booth :: Winesburg, Indiana: Tara Jenkins
• Engender Me Anthology :: xxxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxx
• Indiana Review :: How to Write a A Love Story
• Joyland :: Break All the Way Down
• La Patasola Anthology :: Do You Have a Place For Me?
• Million Writers Award: Best New Online Voices :: Do You Have a Place For Me?
• New Stories from the Midwest 2011 :: Down to Bone
• New Stories from the Midwest 2012 :: North Country
• NOON :: A Pat
• sx salon :: What After Looks Like
• Versal :: Who We Are Beneath the Glass
• Way We Sleep, The :: We Cannot Be More Than We Are
• Wigleaf :: Apocalypse Story
• Willow Springs :: Through the Womb
• Word Riot 10th Anniversary Anthology :: The Architecture of Motion

Personal Interviews, etcetera

• Largehearted Boy was kind enough to let me create a 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
• At Bees Knees, I am interviewed by Nicelle Davis.
• At JMWW, I am interviewed by David Erlewine.

Fancyish

• I am the co-editor of PANK.
• 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.
• 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.