Work Experience
In the intern cave we are hungry. It is Wednesday and we were promised pizza for lunch, but no one knows when it will arrive, or who will be called to retrieve it.
Read in West Branch
What Kind of Monster: All Fours, Alas
In the summer of 2024, I left my marriage and, with it, my house, my hometown, and my job. A year later, I had a new partner, a new apartment, and a new job.
Read in Liberties
Nothing that Counts
Claire is at the refreshments table, skimming the picked-over strawberries and the ignored grapes and the square vat of what’s probably hummus with an expression of polite optimism. A minute later, she’s nowhere at all.
Order One Story
The Baker's Wife
She did something else before this—she might even have done it well. Refugee resettlement advocate, dental hygienist, accountant, small claims court lawyer, social media manager, physical therapist, insurance agent, pharmacist, dance teacher.
Read in Adroit
My short stories have appeared in Ploughshares, One Story, West Branch, Idaho Review, Adroit, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. One of my stories has won a Pushcart Prize and another has been mentioned in Best American Short Stories. For the full list of my published stories, click here.
My essays, criticism, and book reviews have appeared in Liberties, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Barrelhouse, and CRAFT. For the full list of my published nonfiction, click here.
I write a weekly Substack about publishing, craft, and the writing life. You can find the archive of my previous posts here.
My debut novel To Stay, To Stay, To Stay is forthcoming from McSweeney’s in October. For more information, click here.