Short Fiction
“The Great Miss Valentina Speaks,” Pithead Chapel
“The Summer People,” Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
“The Mill Girls,” The Colorado Review
- Read an interview about the story on The Colorado Review blog
“Knocking,” Uncharted Magazine
“The Cave,” Alaska Quarterly Review
“Crybaby Bridge,” The Rejoinder
“Here in the Night,” Debutiful
“The Last Unmapped Places,” Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading
“Sarah Lane’s School for Girls,” Bayou Magazine
- Included in The Best American Mystery & Suspense 2024
“Support Group,” swamp pink
“Flotsam,” Pithead Chapel
- Included in Best Microfiction 2024
“A Queer Girl’s Guide to Reading Fairy Tales,” Cincinnati Review miCRo series
- Included in Best Microfiction 2023
“My Great Grandmother’s Ghost Welcomes My Ghost Into the World of the Dead,” Sonora Review
“Warnings,” The Normal School
“The Elevator Girl,” LampLight Magazine
- Listen to the LampLight Radio Play podcast episode based on the story
“Search Party,” SmokeLong Quarterly
- Read an interview about the story with SmokeLong editor Pablo Piñero Stillmann
“At This Late Hour,” Masters Review
- Listen to the author read from the opening of the story for L/A Arts’ “Local Writers Read” series
“The Nightmares of Jennifer Aiken, Age 29,” Chicago Quarterly Review
“The Attic,” New South
“Four Houses Down,” Harpur Palate
Humor
The Trader Joe’s Fearless Flyer is Here to Destroy your Grocery Budget, The Belladonna
A Victorian Time Traveler Meets Your Puggle, The Belladonna
Other Things that Could be Called The Tortured Poets Department, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
Universally Acknowledged Truths for High School Teachers, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
The Rise and Fall of My Cat, Former Zoom Celebrity: An Oral History, Weekly Humorist
Your City is the Most Livable in America, Until We Publish this Article About it, The New Yorker
The Average Contestant on British Baking Shows vs. the Average Contestant on American Cooking Shows, The New Yorker
Who’s the Man in a Lesbian Relationship? A Guide for Curious Straight People, The Rumpus
If You’re as Obsessed with Wordle as We Are, Give These Spin-Offs a Try, Electric Literature
Thank You for Inviting Me to Your Superbowl Party, But Why Is This Nothing Like Friday Night Lights?, Weekly Humorist
Other TV Networks Follow Fox’s Lead and Debut their own Weather Channels, Weekly Humorist
A Father’s Day Gift Guide for Dads who are Men who Like Man Things, Weekly Humorist
I am Definitely Not Friending You on Facebook Just to Sell You Skincare Products, Weekly Humorist
Kafka Narrates My Online Teaching Experience (cowritten with Breanne Lucy), The New Yorker
Math Problems for Fall, 2020, The New Yorker
Miskatonic University Class Notes, Weekly Humorist
The Pre-Apocalyptic Novels We All Need Right Now, The New Yorker
10 True Facts About the War on Christmas, Weekly Humorist
Running is My Therapy and My Nutritionist is Kale, The New Yorker
I’m Really Good at Escape Rooms; Step Aside While I Solve This Murder, Weekly Humorist
Some Notes on Stephen King’s First Attempt at Writing Copy for L.L. Bean, The New Yorker
The (Christmas) Bells, The Establishment
Ten Groundbreaking Queer Disney Moments You Might Have Missed, The Belladonna Comedy
Every Possible Reason My Cat is Hissing at My Closet, The Belladonna Comedy
Possible Soundtracks for Melania Trump’s East Collonade Christmas Decorations, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
Reasons Your City is the Greatest City in the Known Universe, The New Yorker
Ways to Keep the Teeming Hordes of Humanity from Stealing Your Valuables at the Beach, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
The Road (Has Not Been Plowed for Thirty-Six Hours), McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
Adopt a Cat!, The New Yorker
Essays and Reviews:
Review of Cinderwich by Cherie Priest, Strange Horizons
Review of Jan Stinchcomb’s Verushka, Strange Horizons
6:45 a.m. in Portland, Maine, Off Assignment
9 Spooky Literary Short Story Collections, Electric Literature
The Best Books on Night’s Tantalizing and Terrifying Potential, Shepherd
Back in the Same Day, River Teeth’s Beautiful Things
On the Imaginative Possibilities of Flash Fiction, SmokeLong Quarterly’s blog
Review of H. Pueyo’s A Study in Ugliness & Outras Histórias, Strange Horizons
Review of Adam McOmber’s Fantasy Kit, Strange Horizons
A Catalog of Forgotten Joys, The Maine Review
After Hours, River Teeth‘s Beautiful Things
- Featured in Creative Nonfiction‘s Sunday Short Reads weekly newsletter
In Memoriam: On Cemeteries and the Memory of Ordinary Lives, Catapult
- Listen to the author read from this essay as part of the L/A Arts “Local Writers Read” series
Beyond, Sonora Review
At the Corner of the Real and the Imagined: On Literary Geography, The Toast
Review of Tessa Mellas’ Lungs Full of Noise, The Journal
Review of Yoko Ogawa’s Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales,The Journal.
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