Selected Recent Publications
- "Kings of the Mountains," forthcoming from Terrain.org, 2019
- "Or Maybe," The North American Review, Spring 2019
- "Best Book of 2011: Kingdom Animalia," Granta, Winter 2018
- "The Lake Effect," The Oxford American, Fall 2018
- "More Than a Few Words about Fake Breasts," Granta, Summer 2018 (one of the top Longreads of 2018, one of Granta's most-read pieces of 2018, & one of the Electric Typewriter's 50 best articles of 2018)
- "Lost Colonies," The Kenyon Review, Summer 2018
- "Pilgrim Country," LitHub, August 2017
- "An Uncertain Sound," Ecotone, Winter 2017
- "An Open Letter to My Fellow Teachers on the Weekend after the Election of Donald Trump," Guernica, November 2016
- "This Bird's Life," The Morning News, November 2015
- "Symbolism for Beginners," The Morning News, May 2015 (featured on Longform.org)
- "Breast Cancer Awareness Is a Quiet Mutation, Not a Barrage of Pink Ribbons," The Guardian, October 2014
- "Now That Books Mean Nothing," The Morning News, December 2012 (featured on Longreads)
- "Where We All Will Be Received," This Recording, April 2011 (featured on Longform.org and Longreads)
- "I Want You to Want Me," The Rumpus, May 2009
Anthologies
- "Not a Complaint" in SCRATCH: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living (Simon & Schuster, 2017)
- "Symbolism for Beginners" in An Equine Anthology (Jap Sam Books, 2015)
- "The Hounds" in Rumpus Women, Vol. 1: Personal Essays by Women (The Rumpus, 2010)
Audio
- "Going' to the Chapel," BackStory Radio, 2016
- "The Heyward Shepherd Memorial," BackStory Radio, 2012
Interviews
- "A Preventative Mastectomy at 31," The Story with Dick Gordon, June 2013
