SHORT STORIES

“Later,” Tahoma Literary Review. Summer/Fall 2023. Print. Nominated for Pushcart Prize

“A Bed for Kavita,” New England Review. Summer 2023. Print. Special Mention Pushcart Prize. Honorable Mention, Schiff Fiction Award (The Cincinnati Review)

“The Fact Collector,” Santa Monica Review. Fall 2022. Print. (Novel excerpt)

“Grandmother,” Story Magazine. Print. Spring 2022.

“Gardening,” Southern Indiana Review. Print. Fall 2021. Finalist, Pleiades magazine’s Short Fiction Contest

“The Belfort,” Colorado Review. Print. Vol. 48.3. Fall/Winter 2021. Special Mention Pushcart 2023

“Humbug,” Potomac Review. Print. Issue 68. Nominated for Pushcart Prize

Everything is Going to Come,” Michigan Quarterly Review. Emerging Voices Issue Spring 2021. Print.

Elphinstone,failbetter.com. September 2020. Online. Nominated for Pushcart Prize

“Manu and Me,” Calyx Journal. Vol. 31.3. May 2020. Print.

“The Black Felt Bag” The McNeese Review. Vol. 57. 2020. Print.

“My Life of Useful Information,” Epiphany. Fall/Winter 2019. Print.

“My Friend Raghu,” Natural Bridge Literary Journal. Issue 42, Fall 2019. Print.

“The Red Bump,” Prism Review #21. Spring 2019. Print. Special Mention Pushcart 2021

Make Up Forever,” Boudin, The McNeese Review Online Edition, March 2019. Nominated for Best of the Net

Mismatched,Your Impossible Voice, Issue 19, Winter 2019. Print and online.

Gauri,Another Chicago Magazine,  Issue 56, December 2018. Online.

Letters to my Coach, Juked Magazine, April 2018. Online. Nominated for Pushcart Prize

Little Rabbit,” Storyscape Journal, Issue 19, January 2018. Online.

“The Service,” The Florida Review, 41.2, Fall 2017. Print.

“Conflict,” The Normal School, Fall 2017. Print. Finalist, Phoebe Journal’s Short Story Contest

Salt Hill 38, Spring 2017. Print. Nominated for Pushcart Prize

Skin Deep,” Kartika Review, Issue 15, Spring 2013. Print and online.FLASH FICTION

FLASH FICTION

The Bride-Maker,TIMBER Journal. June 2023

“1,2,3,4: A Puzzle,” Gone Lawn, March 2023.

Underneath It All,” Milk Candy Review. March 2023. Online. Nominated for Pushcart Prize

“She Could,” Hobart. January 2022. Online.

Beginnings,Lost Balloon. June 2021. Online.

The Price of Love,” Atticus Review. Online. April 2021.

TLC," MoonPark Review. March 2021. Online. Wigleaf Top 50 2022 Longlist

“Housewives,” The Cincinnati Review. June 2020. Online. Best Microfiction Nomination. Wigleaf Top 50 2021 Longlist

Lexicon: Man with a Wandering Eye,Gone Lawn, March 2020. Online.

Pink Beach,” Jellyfish Review, January 2019. Online.

ESSAYS / BOOK REVIEW

“Toilets: A Journey," The Offing. January 2021. Online.

Comb Or Brush,” The Rumpus. November 2020. Online.

Review of The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada, Your Impossible Voice. July 2020. Online.

“The Many Uses of Safety Pins,” Lunch Ticket. Issue 16. Winter/Spring 2020. Online. Featured Creative Nonfiction

POETRY

Two Poems. Sparks of Calliope. April 2024


AWARDS

LONGLISTED | First Pages Prize | Novel-in-Progress A SUITABLE OCCUPATION

SPECIAL MENTION | Pushcart Prize 2024 | “A Bed for Kavita,” published in New England Review

SPECIAL MENTION | Pushcart Prize 2023 | “The Belfort,” published in Colorado Review

SPECIAL MENTION | Pushcart Prize 2021 | “The Red Bump,” published in Prism Review

SIX additional stories NOMINATED for the Pushcart Prize | “Letters to My Coach,” “Elphinstone,” “Humbug”, “Later”, “Underneath It All”

HONORABLE MENTION | Schiff Fiction Award (The Cincinnati Review) 2022 | “A Bed for Kavita”

FINALIST | Pleiades Magazine Fiction Contest 2021 | “Gardening,” published in Southern Indiana Review

LONGLISTED | wigleaf Top 50 2022 | “TLC” published in MoonPark Review

LONGLISTED | wigleaf Top 50 2021 | “Housewives,” published in The Cincinnati Review

NOMINATED | Best Microfiction 2020 | “Housewives” published in The Cincinnati Review

NOMINATED | Best of the Net 2019 | “Makeup Forever,” published in The McNeese Review

FINALIST | Phoebe Journal Short Fiction contest | “Conflict,” published in The Normal School

GRANTS/RESIDENCIES/FELLOWSHIPS

Grant for Creative Individuals, Mass Cultural Council 2024

Scholarship, Grub Street Novel Incubator program 2024

Residency, The Ragdale Foundation, May 2024

50th Anniversary Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, March 2023

Tin House Novel Writing Workshop, Summer 2022

Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Summer 2022

Gish Jen Emerging Writers’ Fellowship 2016, Writers’ Room of Boston

Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, 2010

INTERVIEWS

Interview with Milk Candy Review about my flash piece “Underneath It All” here

Interview with Southern Indiana Review about my story “Gardening” here

Interview with Colorado Review about my story “The Belfort” here