Short Fiction
“Cillian,” CRAFT. 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!
“Other Amy,” Fiction no. 66.
Selected Essays
“The Self-Policing Female Gaze in Emma Cline’s The Girls.” Ploughshares.
“In Defense of the Unsatisfying Ending: The Virgin Suicides.” Ploughshares.
“The Conflicted Feminism of Little Women.” Ploughshares.
“Leonora Carrington’s Surrealist Revolution.” Ploughshares.
“Raymond Carver, Gordon Lish, and the Editor as Enabler.” Ploughshares.
“The Complicated Radicalism of Emily Wilson’s The Odyssey.” Ploughshares.
“The Modernist Revision of a Foreign Culture in Ezra Pound’s Cathay.” Ploughshares.
“Rape and the Ravages of Colonialism in Octavia E. Butler’s Dawn.” Ploughshares.
“Fearless Girl, Charging Bull, and the Problem of Authorial Intent.” Ploughshares.
“Dawson’s Creek and Emily Dickinson’s Master Letters.” Ploughshares.
“Ariadne’s Journey to Consciousness in Analicia Sotelo’s Virgin.” Ploughshares.
“‘Adventure of a Skier’ and Calvino’s Theory of Lightness.” Ploughshares.