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Online
- “Nanci Griffith sang about heartbreak like there wasn’t a thing she couldn’t handle” / Houston Chronicle (2021)
- “People in Your Situation” / Literary Mama (2016)
- “When You Can No Longer Talk about It, You Have to Sing” / Narrative Magazine (2016)
- “Wild Blackberries: On Food, Family and Finding Home” / The Weeklings (2015)
- “Dispatches From the Content Factory: On the Rise and Fall of the New Creative Class” / The Millions (2015)
- “My Dead Brother’s Son” / Salon (2013)
- “What We Eat, Where We Live” (excerpt) / Pearl Magazine – Editor’s Prize winner (2011, also in print)
- “Donation” / Pebble Lake Review (2009)
- “Looking for the Post-Gay: New Frontiers in Queer Fiction” / Gulf Coast (2009, also in print)
In Print
- “Alaska” / CALYX (2012)
- “SPN” / The Bellingham Review – Tobias Wolff Award winner (2010)
- “Putting Girls on the Map” / New Ohio Review (2010)
- “The Girls” / Quarterly West (2009)
- “Beauty and Health for Life” / The Potomac Review – Fiction Award winner (2009)
Press & Other
“The Hell with Grants” / The Stranger: group interview and article on the Made at Hugo House program (2013)
“The Next Big Thing” interview / thanks to my fellow writer and friend, the kick-ass Laurie Cedilnik, for putting up this bit about my wildly in-progress novel
“A Way Home” / Opera Southwest: article about and clips of the opera, which first appeared at the Houston Grand Opera (2012)
“Our Earth” / Seattle Opera: information about this cycle of children’s operas (2013)