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Beach baby

storySouth Fall 2025

A reckoning with the remembrance of a sister

Now available to read online!

The Real Boys of Summer

Best Emerging Writers Anthology 2024, Masters Review

"These stories ask questions about power, intimacy, control, our imperfect knowledge of one another and the world around us, and the limitations of our frail bodies, as well as the consequences of failing to understand those limitations." --Gina Chung, Guest Judge 

Awakening to Jake

The Missouri Review 41.4

"This essay is an affectionate portrait of a troubled young man who could easily become a victim and a statistic." --Speer Morgan, Editor
Now available to read online (for free!) at this link!

The Tour

North American Review 310.1 Spring 2025

A grandmother haunts a very old house. 

The First Time

Fourth Genre 25.2

The wedding night is drawing near.   
Digital or physical copies available for purchase

Death Days

Entropy

Is it coincidence that family members keep dying on birthdays?   
Available Online!

Home and Spectacle

Michigan Quarterly Review 58.3

Past and present perceptions of suburban America from a third culture kid.

Invisible Man Asshole

The Cincinnati Review 16.1

A demon haunts a psychiatric residential treatment facility.

Babel

Reed 150

An urban youth group, along with members of a London gang, climb Mt. Snowdon.   

Svoboda

The Pinch 33.1

For a photography project, missionary interns on the streets of Prague ask passersby if true freedom is found in singleness or in relationship. Supplementary photographs found here.

Calling Korea: A Love Story

The Sycamore Review 27.2

"The line between the language of dating and tutoring South Koreans in English becomes blurred." --Anthony Sutton, Editor

The Letter

Salt

A short, romantic essay on the significance of a painted letter along the Wilmington Riverwalk.   
Available Online!

News 

  • "Awakening to Jake" is listed as a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2019

  • Pas de Deux: Weiss and Pearson / The Cincinnati Review 

A conversation between writers Jillian Weiss and Joanna Pearson about each other's pieces in The Cincinnati Review 16.1
  • An Interview with Jillian Weiss / The Missouri Review 

An in-depth look at the themes and construction of "Awakening to Jake"
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