Fiction
"Buffalo Cactus" in Gulf Coast
Short story was listed as a distinguished story in The Best American Short Stories 2015. It was anthologized in Buffalo Cactus and other Stories from the South West published by the University of New Mexico Press in 2018.
"Second Person" in Storm Cellar Quarterly
"Patron Saint of Infants" in CutBank
"The City We Lived in after the War" in War, Literature, and the Arts
"In the Gulf of Mexico" in The Greensboro Review
"Shift Work" in Workers Write
Podcast Interview
“I Will Not Make Any More Boring Podcasts” on Smarty Pants, the podcast of The American Scholar
Selected Publications
Nonfiction
“Tales From an Attic: Suitcases once belonging to residents of a New York State mental hospital tell the stories of long-forgotten lives” in The American Scholar
“Ideology as Anatomy: How shifting ideas about women’s bodies have affected their lives” in The American Scholar
“Bodies Grotesque and Beautiful: Searching for aesthetics and meaning in the monstrous” in The American Scholar
“An Artist of Our Social Age: Matthew Wong broke all the rules and flourished online, but he craved what the outsider typically eschews: commercial success” in The American Scholar
“The Feminine Arts: A writer explores the elation and difficulty of making art while female” in The American Scholar
“Artist of Excess: The man who painted his century’s nightmare” in The American Scholar
“Long-Distance Punishment: Could a landmark work of conceptual art be an emblem for the Covid era?” in The American Scholar
“The Life & Work of Leah Naomi Green: A Taxonomy” in The Bitter Southerner
"Water in the Empty Part of the Map" in The American Scholar
"A Brother, Lost and Found" in The New York Times
"Major Arcana" in Meridian
"Death of a Citizen Abroad" in Brevity
“Pop Culture and the Sacred: An Interview with Kevin McKenzie” in The National Gallery of Canada Magazine
“Women Who Look Out from the Canvas: The Paintings of Prudence Heward” in The National Gallery of Canada Magazine
“Disposable Art, Process Art, Media Art: Les Levine’s Rule-Breaking Work” in The National Gallery of Canada Magazine
“Cities in a Suitcase: Works on Paper by Landon Mackenzie” in The National Gallery of Canada Magazine
"A Meticulous Dreamer: 100 Years of the Transatlantic Art of Jean Dallaire" in The National Gallery of Canada Magazine
“Brenda Francis Pelkey: Photographing Inner Lives” in The National Gallery of Canada Magazine
"Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things" in The American Scholar
"Reinventing Life: The strange and wondrous science of biological technology" in Virginia Magazine
"The Trouble with Civilization: Ancient cities reveal the vulnerabilities of modern societies" in Virginia Magazine
"Over Seven Billion Served: The dynamics of the population boom and demographic transition" in Virginia Magazine