Publications & Awards

PROSE COLLECTIONS:

TENDER HOOF: STORIES (Forthcoming: Thirty West Publishing, January 2024)

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A Bright and Pleading Dagger [Chapbook] Rose Metal Press (August 2018)

View the press release for A Bright and Pleading Dagger here.

SELECTED SHORT FICTION:

• “Tender Hoof.” Longleaf Review (Fall 2022)
• “Duncan.” Cleaver Magazine (Fall 2019)
• “Hatched.” SmokeLong Quarterly (Spring 2019)
• “Crumbs.” The Cincinnati Review: MiCRo Series (Fall 2018) & Best Microfiction 2019 (Spring 2019)
• “Demolished.” The Cincinnati Review: MiCRo Series (Fall 2018)
• “Don’t Mention It.” Newfound (Fall 2018)
• “A Bright and Pleading Dagger.” Always Crashing (Online) (Fall 2018)
• “Death of an Ortolan.” Passages North, Issue 38 (Spring 2017)
• “The Last Meal Chef.” Passages North, Issue 38 (Spring 2017)
• “La Mer.” The Journal, 40.3 (Fall 2016)
• “Year of the Dog.” The Adroit Journal, Issue 11 (Spring 2015)
• “Jamaica.” Kansas City Voices, Vol. 12 (Fall 2014)
• “Porches.” Ghost Town, Issue 6 (Summer 2014)
• “Some Call it Sadness.” Per Contra, Issue 27 (Spring 2013)
• “Together was the Assumption.” Black Heart Magazine (Spring 2013)
• “There Wouldn’t be a Third.” Apocrypha and Abstractions (Spring 2013)

SELECTED SHORT NON-FICTION:

• “Salute.” The Hungry Ghost Project (Summer 2021)
• “The Masters of Mining Adolescent Experience in Fiction.” Literary Hub (Fall 2018)
• “Where Writers Write: Nicole Rivas.” The Next Best Book Club (Summer 2018)
• “Dirty Dogs & the Quick-Forgetting.” Mortar (Summer 2017)

BOOK REVIEWS:

• “Review of If The Ice Had Held by Wendy J. Fox.” Split Lip Magazine (June 2019)
• “Review of Messiah Tortoise by James R. Gapinski.” Necessary Fiction (Winter 2018)
• “Review of Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture (edited by Roxane Gay).” VIDA Review Reviews (Fall 2018)

INTERVIEWS:

• “Conversations w/ Contributors: Maryse Meijer.” The Adroit Journal (Fall 2019)
• “Smoke and Mirrors: An Interview with Venita Blackburn.” SmokeLong Quarterly (Spring 2019)
• “Smoke and Mirrors: An Interview with Janika Oz.” SmokeLong Quarterly (Fall 2018)

AWARDS & NOMINATIONS:

• “Tender Hoof.” Nominated for The Best Small Fictions 2023
• “Hatched.” – Anthologized in Flash Fiction America (W.W. Norton, 2023)
• Blood and Butter (Chapbook) — Semifinalist for The Annual Cupboard Chapbook Contest (2019)
• “Hatched.” — Nominated for the Best of the Net 2019
• “Demolished.” — Nominated for Best of the Net 2019
• “A Bright and Pleading Dagger.” — Nominated for The Best Small Fictions 2019
• “A Bright and Pleading Dagger.” — Nominated for the Pushcart Prize (2019)
• “Crumbs.” — Anthologized in Best Microfiction 2019
• “A Bright and Pleading Dagger.” — Winner of Rose Metal Press’s 12th Annual Short Short Chapbook Contest (2018)
• “Death of an Ortolan.” — Anthologized in in The Best Small Fictions 2019
• “It is Certain.” — Finalist for The Malahat Review‘s Novella Prize (2016)

SELECT FREELANCE WORK:

• “Georgia Grown Innovation Center Brings Entrepreneurial Opportunity to Metter and Beyond.” The Creative Coast (2022)
• “Three Undergraduates Win Seed Money at Savannah State University’s Tiger’s Den Business Pitch Competition.” The Creative Coast (2022)