a book i wrote
THE BRAND NEW CATASTROPHE
Reviews: NYT, The Kenyon Review, The Millions, Electric Literature & elsewhere
Coverage & lists: Poets & Writers, Buzzfeed, Baltimore Sun, Publishers Weekly, Electric Literature & elsewhere
some other things i wrote
Essays & nonfiction
Polaroid Death Machine - The Georgia Review
What Happens After You Get Sober? - Harper’s Bazaar
Culinary Road Trip: Pittsburgh - Bon Appétit
#153 - The Low End Theory - RS500
In Desperate Pursuit of the Zero-Stress Job - NY Times
#346 - 3 Feet High and Rising - RS500
Say Uncle - The Paris Review online
Uncertain Certainties - Bending Genre
From The Almanac of Modern Regret - Everyday Genius
Detroit, 2011 - Sundog Lit
Gross Pointe Blank - Wig-Wag
Fiction
In the Kitchen Where We Cooked Almost Nothing - Waccamaw
Reviews, etc.
The Shaking Woman - The Rumpus
Floating In a Most Peculiar Way - The Rumpus
Joe Meno’s Demons In the Spring - HTMLGiant
Stuff I did so people would buy my book
Editorial Outtakes - American Short Fiction
5 Things I Wish My Wife Knew About Herself - Oprah.com
Book Notes - Largehearted Boy
An Unfunny Essay about Humor - The Center for Fiction
Belle Boggs and I chatted it up about illness narratives (Here are some other interviews, too.)
Fun stuff that’s hard to categorize
“Polaroid Death Machine” was named an editors’ pick by Longreads
The “Welcome to Appalachia” editorial package at BA (featuring my road trip through Pittsburgh) was nominated for a 2024 National Magazine Award
A poem I wrote appeared in Matthew Olzmann’s 2022 collection Constellation Route
An essay I wrote appeared in The Best of Hot Metal Bridge
A short story I wrote appeared in The Best of Waccamaw
An interview I did with Laura van den Berg about noir
I wrote the foreword to an anthology of student work that contains the Internet’s absolute favorite poem by a 6 year-old
I guested on the Film Fest podcast, the Rare Bird Lit podcast, and TK with James Scott
The Washingtonian wrote a piece about the only cool thing to ever happen to me on Twitter