Publications

A list of my short-form writing (fiction and nonfiction), in some type of order, that’s been published in print and online form (a few have  pdf files of the pieces):

Nonfiction
“Roll Call,” in Black Warrior Review (listed under “Experimental Forms”) (pdf)
“Of These Maypops, Blooming,” in Phoebe Jounal (pdf)
“What Remains,” in New Delta Review (pdf)
“Upon Encountering the Knowledge Lynchings Were Once Recorded and Recreated” in Hayden’s Ferry Review (pdf)
“‘Installation Piece,'” in The Cincinnati Review (pdf)
“Before It All Came Tumbling Down,” in Shenandoah (pdf)
“Color Theory,” in Stanchion and a forthcoming reprint in their 20th anniversary issue
“The Time Before the Last Time You Disappeared,” in Puerto del Sol
“The Lyric Essay As A Mode of Resistance,” in Bending Genre, 2nd Edition (pdf)
“A Plumb, Falling,” in The Adroit Journal (pdf)
“Of A Confession, Sketched From Ten Vignettes,” in A Harp in the Stars: An Anthology of Lyric Essays
“We Were Never Free,” inThe Arkansas International (pdf)
“Portrait Of An American Male¹,” (listed in Pushcart Prize 2019 and was selected by Hanif Abdurraqib for the 2019 Best of the Net ) in TriQuarterly (pdf)
“The Inheritors,” winner of the Harpur Palate Prize, in Harpur Palate
“Admission,” in The Los Angeles Review
“And For By Grace,” in Indiana Review
“Points of Interest,” in Passages North (pdf)
“After Water Comes the Fire,” listed as a notable essay in Best American Essays 2017, in Bennington Review
“As For Me and My House,” in Carve Magazine 
“Before You Throw Her Body Down,” winner of the Disquiet Literary Prize, in Ninth Letter (pdf)
“In the Name of the Fathers,” in Fugue
“Here If You Love Me,”  in Cobalt Review

Fiction
“Middling,” republished and forthcoming in An Anthology of Rural Stories by Writers of Color, Vol. 3, judged by Deesha Philyaw, by Eastover Press.
“In This New World,” in Quarter After Eight
“Bit,” in New Ohio Review 
“Middling,” in Pleiades (feature issue by African-American women writers)
“The Tiny Man Inside Me,” in West Branch
“Jashanna,” in The Florida Review
“Blackheart,” in Rockhurst Review
“Muscle Memory Of A Body That Is Not Her Body,” in Black Warrior Review (pdf)
“We Are All Already Gone,” in New South
“The Howler,” in Permafrost and featured in Ploughshares “The Best Short Story By A Lit Mag This Week” Series
“The Balloonist Dreams of Flight,” in Booth (both online and in Booth 8) (pdf)
“The Mythology of the Axolotl,” in Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose
“Wonder Wonderland,” in Microchondria II: 42 More Short Stories Collected by Harvard Book Store
“Violin Dreams,” listed as a notable essay in Best American Essays 2015, in Grist: The Journal for Writers
“Believers,” winner of the Walker Percy Prize, in New Orleans Review
“The Burning City,” in Digital Americana
“On the Terra Roxa Earth We Saw Stars,” in Nimrod International Journal
“Tell Me,” in Yemasse
“Flash to Bang,” in War, Literature, and the Arts 
“Leaving Bujumbura,” in Fourteen Hills
“To Build A House,” in Gigantic Sequins
“In the Valley of the Kings,” in Potomac Review
“Coyotes,” in North American Review
“Unclean,” in elimae
“How to Date A White Boy,” in JMWW
“Tender Deaths,” in Wigleaf
“Dear Wigleaf,” in Wigleaf
“Where You’ve Been,” in Monkeybicycle
“The Women of My Father,” in Blue Print Review
“Disappeared,” in The Summerset Review.
“Once,” story in The 2007 Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories
“How to Cheat On Your Wife,” story, in Brevity and Echo: An Anthology of Short Short Stories
“The Women of My Father,” story, in Best of the Web 2008

Once upon a time there were others, but sadly they have been subjected to the ephemeral nature of the internet and are now gone.

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