Stories
Selected Stories
- “Chance Me,” Electric Literature
- “Teacher,” Arkansas International (received Special Mention in Best American Short Stories 2020)
- “Six Tales of Drowning,” NELLE
- “Paradise Lodge,” American Short Fiction, Issue 61 (received Special Mention in Best American Short Stories 2017)
- “The City on the Other Coast,” Indiana Review (received Special Mention in Best American Short Stories 2017)
- “Norwegian for Troll,” Glimmer Train
- “Mermaid and Knife,” Gulf Coast (received Special Mention in Best American Short Stories 2016)
- “Sun City,” The New Yorker (To read a short interview about the story, go here)
- “Life Among the Terranauts,” One Story
- “Steal Small,” The Pushcart Prize XXXV: Best of the Small Presses 2011, ed. Bill Henderson. Story originally published in Prairie Schooner
- “The Sleep,” The Best American Short Stories 2011, eds. Geraldine Brooks and Heidi Pitlor. Story originally published as an Atlantic Fiction for Kindle download
- “The Lion Gate,” West Branch. Read it online in the Barcelona Review.
- “This Is Not Your City,” The PEN/ O. Henry Prize Stories 2009, ed. Laura Furman. Story originally published in Third Coast
- “Zolaria,” The Southern Review. Read it here: Zolaria .pdf
- “At the Zoo,” The Paris Review
- “It Looks Like This,” Blackbird. (read it here. It has pictures.)
- “In the Gulf of Aden, Past the Cape of Guardafui,” The Gettysburg Review.
- “Going to Estonia,” Tin House
- “Embodied,” The Cincinnati Review (My first story acceptance: thanks forever, Cincinnati Review.)
Selected Flash Fiction