Publications
Novel
In the Morning, the City is the Prairie, Belle Point Press, November 2023
Novella
The World and the Zoo, Outpost19, 2020
Story Collection
The Wildflowers of Baltimore, Winner of the International Scott Prize, Salt Publishing, 2012
Selected Story Publications
"Popsicle Stick Cathedral," Lake Effect
"Boxes, Oklahoma City, Spring," Puerto del Sol
"A Church With the Roof Torn Off," Split Lip
"1000," Okay Donkey -- Selected for 2023 Best Small Fictions
"Unalaska," Greensboro Review -- Distinguished Story in 2022 Best American Short Stories
"Advent," Pithead Chapel
"Temp," New Flash Fiction Review
"Spring, Baltimore," Epoch
"Come to Me and I Will Give You Rest," New World Writing
"Victor, Jonah, Laney," Epoch
"Peter," BULL (Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Stories of 2018)
"The Epic Poetry of the Hundred Pines Mall in Nashua, New Hampshire," HAD
"We were Glassassins," Vol. 1 Brooklyn
"Wonder," Green Mountains Review, Spring 2016
"Zero And," HAD
"Burn This," Necessary Fiction
"I Awoke to Discover I Had Been Transformed into a Dolphin," Wigleaf
"The Zoo and the World," American Short Fiction, 2014 -- Distinguished Story in 2015 Best American Short Stories
"I Haven't Always Been the Walt Whitman Service Area on the New Jersey Turnpike," Grist, 2014
"The Wildflowers of Baltimore," Epoch, 2013
"Alphabet Puzzle," PANK, 2012
“Dark Molly,” The Collagist, June 2011
“I Was a Math Student,” HOBART, 2011
"The Customer,” PANK, 2011
“Oklahoma City,” Slice, 2010
Interviews, Awards, Other Writing
Literary City: Oklahoma City, World Literature Today
Interview at Speaking of Marvels
"Sharing OKC with the World," Interview on Okie Bookcast Podcast
"On Writing Oklahoma City," Front Porch Republic
Interview of Ahmed Naji, World Literature Today
"Like a Vision, but Real," an interview by George McCormick, Fiction Writers Review
"Some parts of the zoo that did not make it into the book about the zoo," Necessary Fiction
"On Soft Rock," KGB Bar Lit
Peter Taylor Scholarship, Sewanee Writers' Conference, 2018
Interview of Chris Abani, with Mary B. Gray, World Literature Today, July 2018
"What I Learned Teaching at the Retirement Home," Whale Road Review
"Swimming Through Bricks," Interview of Simon Armitage, World Literature Today, with Quinn Weedon, September 2017
"the title is the photographs" Essay on found photographs, The Oklahoma Review
"Why Harper Lee Matters," Feature article for The Oklahoman, July 2015
"On Hole's Celebrity Skin," The Rumpus "Albums of our Lives" Series
Classroom Visits, Writers in Schools, PEN/Faulkner Foundation, Spring 2013
Longlist, 2013 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award
Radio Adaptation, "Henry," WYPR, The Signal
Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award, 2013
On "Sleeping Lioness" by Larry Levis, The Rumpus "Last Poem I Loved" Series