Writings


Fiction

Pax Americana

Fall 2023 / Arts & Letters

Chosen by Francesca Ekwuyasi for the 2023 Arts & Letters Prize for Fiction

Day of All Saints

2017 / Novella / Miami University Press

Chosen by Brian Ascalon Roley for the 2017 Miami University Novella Prize

Adiós and Adiós

Winter 2015 / The Gettysburg Review

Small Country

May 2014 / Ploughshares Solo / Also available as a free audiobook and in Ploughshares Solos Omnibus, Vol. 2

Rooster Hour

July 2013 / Narrative Magazine

Rubia

2012 / Chapbook / The Florida Review

Chosen by David Huddle for the 2012 Jeanne Leiby Memorial Chapbook Award

The Death of Carrie Bradshaw

2011 / Chapbook / Kore Press

Chosen by Antonya Nelson for the 2011 Kore Press Short Fiction Prize

Dogs in Guatemala

Fall 2009 / Nimrod


Nonfiction

Sibling Rivalry

September 2018 / The Mail /The New Yorker

"The World is a Field of the Spanish Civil War": Traumatic Memory in Muriel Rukeyser’s Spanish Civil War Poetry

March 2013 / TAB: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics

"There's Always a Dreamed Text": Defying Mythologized History in Martín Gaite’s El cuarto de atrás

Winter 2004 / South Atlantic Review

Reading the Literature of War & Peace, Post 9/11

July 2003 / Loose Canons