Short Fiction
Fiction, “Other Amy”
CRAFT, “Cillian”
- 3rd Place Winner of the 2023 CRAFT Short Fiction Contest, selected by Nana Nkweti
- Nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best American Short Stories.
- Read my author’s note about sex in fiction and Buffy the Vampire Slayer here. Beware spoilers!
Selected Essays
Ploughshares, “The Complicated Radicalism of Emily Wilson’s The Odyssey.”
Ploughshares, “Dawson’s Creek and Emily Dickinson’s Master Letters”
Ploughshares, “The Self-Policing Female Gaze in Emma Cline’s The Girls”
Ploughshares, “In Defense of the Unsatisfying Ending: The Virgin Suicides”
Ploughshares, “Rape and the Ravages of Colonialism in Octavia E. Butler’s Dawn”
Ploughshares, “We Have Always Lived in the Castle: A Prelude to a Myth”
Ploughshares, “The Conflicted Feminism of Little Women“
Ploughshares, “The Affair’s Gender-Swapped Madwoman in the Attic’”
Ploughshares, “The Blazing World Asks Why There Are No Great Female Artists”
Ploughshares, “Marriage as Domestic Imprisonment in Rachel Ingalls’ Mrs. Caliban“
Ploughshares, “Leonora Carrington’s Surrealist Revolution”
Ploughshares, “Raymond Carver, Gordon Lish, and the Editor as Enabler”
Ploughshares, “The Modernist Revision of a Foreign Culture in Ezra Pound’s Cathay”
Ploughshares, “Fearless Girl, Charging Bull, and the Problem of Authorial Intent”
Ploughshares, “Ariadne’s Journey to Consciousness in Analicia Sotelo’s Virgin”