Essays
You’ve Seen What Dogs Do to Rabbits, The Pinch, October 2023
How to Build Resentments (List of Parts), Short Reads, July 2023
In Too Deep, Booth, April 2022
What Joy Looks Like, Brevity, January 2021
featured in Creative Nonfiction’s Sunday Short Reads, April 2021
Jokerman, The Rumpus, November 2019
The Fence, Longridge Review, October 2019
Summer, 35, Gay Magazine, September 2019
Hibernation Triptych, Atticus Review, September 2019
Beneath the Falls, Open: Journal of Arts & Letters, July 2019
Gravity, Star 82 Review, September 2017
The Other First, Under the Gum Tree, January 2016
Notes from Underground, december, November 2015
Affogato, Gastronomica, August 2015
The Mysteries of Adaptation, Bright Lights Film Journal, August 2010
Wild Love, Bright Lights Film Journal, May 2010
Journalism & Opinion
Offshore Escape, National Parks Magazine, Summer 2023
Creative Access, National Parks Magazine, Winter 2022
Getting Some Distance, National Parks Magazine, Summer 2021
Man of Letters, National Parks Magazine, Spring 2021
The Farthest Edge, National Parks Magazine, Winter 2021
Hush…, National Parks Magazine, Winter 2020
Valley of Memories, National Parks Magazine, Winter 2019
Dangerous Ideas, National Parks Magazine, Fall 2018
Political Rivals Are Too Often Enemies, Cognoscenti, January 2018
Revolutionary Roles, National Parks Magazine, Fall 2017
Ghosts of the Gorge, National Parks Magazine, Summer 2017
In Bias We Trust, Cognoscenti, February 2017
Deep Listening, National Parks Magazine, Winter 2017
Words and Stones, National Parks Magazine, Summer 2016
The Trouble with Bats, National Parks Magazine, Spring 2016
Humor/Satire
I’m the Henchman from Witness Who Was Buried in Grain, Here to Warn You About the Dangers of Silos, SmokeLong Quarterly, December 2021
Middle-Aged Skateboarding Maneuvers, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, April 2021
I Believe We Can Heal Our Partisan Divide if You Just Admit Gravity Is Real, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, February 2021
Book Reviews
A “Lost Cause” Finds His Way: On Isaac Fitzgerald’s “Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional,” Los Angeles Review of Books, August 2022
Circling Back to New Galilee: On Jennifer Neisslein’s “Dreadful Sorry: Notes on an American Nostalgia,” Los Angeles Review of Books, April 2022
Short Fiction
A Bolt in the Night, Manzano Mountain Review, November 2020
Meals of Choice, Alimentum, March 2013
Springs, Monkeybicycle, October 2012
Things We Asked, More or Less in Order, Prick of the Spindle, June 2011
Interviews, Blogs & Media
Embracing Your Range: Complex Story, Layered Voice, Brevity blog, July 2023
Smoke & Mirrors, SmokeLong Quarterly, December 2021
December 21, 2019, for Essay Daily’s “What Happened on 12.21.19” project, May 2020
Beneath the Falls (audio) read by Hermione Wilds, December 2019
More to the Story Podcast, Episode 13, December 2017
Meet the Author, Under the Gum Tree, 2016
Awards & Honors
Semi-finalist, Orison Chapbook Prize, Orison Books, 2023
Dune Shack Residency, Outer Cape Artists in Residency Consortium, Provincetown, MA, September 2023
Nomination, Pushcart Prize, “How to Build Resentments (List of Parts),” Short Reads, 2023
Finalist, Page Prize in Nonfiction, The Pinch, 2023
Honorable Mention, 31st Annual NATJA Awards (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in Travel category), “Creative Access”
Winner, SmokeLong Quarterly Comedy Prize, 2021
Finalist, Page Prize in Nonfiction, The Pinch, 2021
Nomination, Best of the Net 2020, “Hibernation Triptych,” Atticus Review
Nomination, Pushcart Prize, “A Bolt in the Night,” Manzano Mountain Review, 2020
Nomination, Pushcart Prize, “Hibernation Triptych,” Atticus Review, 2019
Nomination, Pushcart Prize, “The Fence,” Longridge Review, 2019
Notable Essay, Anne C. Barnhill Prize for Creative Nonfiction (judged by Randal O’Wain), Longridge Review, 2019
First Prize, Flash CNF Contest (judged by Ira Sukrungruang), Atticus Review, 2019
Winner, Flash Discourse Prize, Open: Journal of Arts & Letters, 2019
Nomination, Pushcart Prize, "The Other First," Under the Gum Tree, 2017
Honorable Mention, Curt Johnson Prose Awards, Nonfiction (judged by Albert Goldbarth), december, 2015
Finalist, Creative Nonfiction Prize, Phoebe, 2015
Finalist, Emerging Writer's Contest, Nonfiction, Ploughshares, 2014
Finalist, Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction, Bellingham Review, 2013
Kind Words
"…an engagingly clear-headed admission that there is no clear-headedness when it comes to some essentially conflicted American topics. Its 'neverending mashup' is laced with a bountiful honesty about both self and culture." - Albert Goldbarth, on my essay "Notes from Undergound"