Writing

FICTION

My writing explores themes of identity, compulsion, and power dynamics. I'm particularly obsessed with the polarity between desire and fear. In fiction, I'm drawn to that which might repel me in real life: the irrational, erratic, grotesque, and absurd. It’s too simplistic to say I'm trying to “figure out” human perversity by writing about it, because I don’t have that expectation. But it has been my occupation to puzzle over it.

Evidence (Novel Excerpt) The Brooklyn Rail, December 2023 Issue.

Renovation (Novel Excerpt) The Georgia Review, Fall 2023 Issue.

Soon You’ll Be Just Like Us (Flash Fiction) The Bureau Dispatch, March 2022.

The Dry Season (Short Story) Joyland Magazine (The West), November 2018.

The Sound as It Tears (Flash Fiction) Monsieur Stindel Magazine/Issue 1, Spring/Summer 2016.

The Eternals (Novel Excerpt) Your Impossible Voice/Issue 9, Fall 2015.

The Ravine (Short Story) The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review, February 2015. 

Last Impressions (Intro to The Ravine) The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review, February 2015.

Show Me (Short Story) Slice Magazine/Issue 11, September 2012.

ESSAYS & REVIEWS

7 Dark and Unsettling Books by Korean Women Writers (Reading List) Electric Literature, November 2023.

On Writing Landscape
(Craft Essay) Literary Hub, November 2023.

Creating a Fractured Whole (Book Review of Megan Culhane Galbraith’s The Guild of the Infant Saviour) The Rumpus, October 2021.

Revolutionaries: How The Size Queens Use DIY Tactics to Flip Off the Indie Music World (Music Profile) The Believer Logger, November 2014.

ANTHOLOGIES

Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology (Contributor) Madville Publishing 2023.

Women in Clothes: Why We Wear What We Wear (Contributor) Blue Rider Press/Penguin 2014.