SHORT FICTION
“Prayers I Said” The Meadow Summer 2022
“Shove” Sixfold Winter 2016
“The Revisionists” Cutthroat Winter 2014
“Bend, Convolute, Curve” Sixfold Summer 2013
“The Pits” Philadelphia Stories Spring 2013
“The Seven Habits of a Highly Ineffective Lover” Echo Ink Review Volume 3, Issue 2
“The Affair on Duncan Lane” The Inside Mag Fall 2012
“Souvenirs” Pear Noir! Summer 2011
“Luna de Miel” New Ohio Review Issue 9
CREATIVE NONFICTION
“Tequila Splitfin” Barren Magazine Spring 2024 (Deliverance Issue)
“Triage” The Boiler Summer 2017
“The Place Called Mother” Post Road Issue 23 (Notable: Best American Essays 2013)
POETRY
“I Catch a Hummingbird” Apricity Magazine Spring 2024
INTERVIEWS & READINGS
NOVELS (Seeking Representation)
At the Rim of Vision
This 58,000 word YA novel opens with 17-year-old Daphne, who is in a tough spot: her boyfriend of two years has just dumped her for their math tutor, she’s pregnant, and now her parents are hijacking her for the summer so that they can empty out her grandmother’s huge, creepy house on the other side of the country. She has no idea if she can go through with the pregnancy. But Emily, the 15-year-old who loves Sylvia Plath and who can’t understand the Vietnam War, might just be in a worse situation: she lives in fear that her abusive, bigoted father will discover that she’s pregnant by an older Korean American boy. Though Daphne and Emily never meet, their lives are necessarily intertwined. Daphne, trying to avoid her own problems, throws herself into a quest to determine why Emily died so young and how the events surrounding her death imploded her father’s family. Both young women face daunting decisions, ones that will echo through their family for generations.
The Townies
In this 64,000 word YA novel, four teens living relatively normal lives in a small New England college town each begin to experience their own strange and singular powers. Elliott, grieving her father’s suicide attempt and her mother’s long absence, is sent to live with relatives she barely knows in Massachusetts. Her cousins, now housemates, Monet and Lewis, are grappling with their own issues: she is slogging though therapy and trying not to come out because she knows her family would be a little too excited; he is trying to shake off his parents now that he’s in remission from cancer, and in the process, develops an unhealthy crush on his history teacher. And Isaac, Lewis’ charming new friend, is a transplant from Denver, with the dark secret he wants to outrun. Though they live in our world, they must learn to navigate the unsettling ways their powers impact it and each other. This is a contemporary book layered with magical elements in the vein of The Astonishing Color of After and steeped in the budding romance and loneliness of Fangirl.
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