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Selected Journal Publications

  • Arts & Letters
  • Cimarron Review
  • Cincinnati Review
  • Columbia
  • Crab Orchard Review
  • Gettysburg Review
  • Hudson Review
  • Hobart
  • Iowa Review
  • Massachusetts Review
  • New England Review
  • Ploughshares
  • PMS (poem-memoir-story)
  • River Styx
  • r.kv.r.y
  • The Rupture (formerly The Collagist)
  • Shenandoah
  • South Carolina Review
  • Southern Indiana Review
  • Southern Review
  • Southhampton Review
  • Story Magazine
  • Sun Magazine
  • Tahoma Literary Review
  • Tampa Review
  • TriQuarterly
  • Washingtonian
  • WIP (work in progress)

Selected Awards

  • Pushcart Prize, 2020
  • The Hermitage Artist Retreat, fellow, 2019
  • “100 Distinguished Stories,” Best American Short Stories, 2018
  • “100 Distinguished Essays,” Best American Essays, 2014
  • Fellowship, Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers, 2016
  • The Hudson Review, fiction contest, second place, 2016
  • Finalist, 19th Annual Library of Virginia Award for Fiction, 2016
  • Pushcart Prize, special mention (three times)
  • Drue Heinz Literature Prize, 2015
  • Columbia, Editors’ Choice Award for Fiction
  • Hambidge Center for the Arts, residency
  • Julia Peterkin Award, Converse College
  • KHN Center for the Arts, residency
  • Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, fellowship
  • Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Walter E. Dakin Fellow
  • Shenandoah, Jeanne Charpiot Goodheart Prize for Fiction
  • Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, residency