• Sandra Carpenter Memorial Prize, 2024

    Research & Creation Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, 2020-2022

    Pushcart Prize, 2013

    Tennessee Williams Scholarship, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, 2015

    Writing Fellowship, Yaddo, Fall 2012

    First Place, American Short[er] Fiction Prize, 2011

  • Excerpt from The Collected Works of Walter Potter in Kenyon Review, Fall/Winter 2021

    “The Stories You Write About Mimico” in Cincinnati Review, 2020

    “Abe Lincoln’s Giant Finger is Missing” in Wigleaf, 2020

    “A General Confusion Overtook the Whole Vicinity” in Gettysburg Review, Winter 2018

    “A Beautiful Song, Very Melancholy and Very Old” in Ecotone, 2017 

    “Talking Dolls” in Michigan Quarterly Review, 2017

    “Machines of Another Era” in Story, 2016

    “Lord Byron’s Teen Lover, Claire Clairmont” in Alice Blue Review 27, Fall 2015

    “Helena, Montana” in Alaska Quarterly Review, Spring/Summer 2015

    “You Play With Dolls” (essay) in Black Warrior Review, Spring/Summer 2015

    “Elegant Proof” in Litragger

    “I Loved This” in Broken Pencil‘s The Nub (first place, “Unearth Your Underworld” fiction contest, 2014)

    “Are You Running Away?” in A Strange Object‘s Covered With Fur, 2014

    “Bad” in Indiana Review, 2014

    “How Do You Deal With the Horribly Cruel Things People Have Said to You Throughout Your Life?” in Wigleaf, 2013

    “The Last Wild Passenger Pigeon” in Wigleaf, 2014

    “Daguerreotypes” (1 and 2) in Carousel, 2014

    “Elegant Proof” in Bellingham Review, 2013

    “A Collector” (with illustration by Sherwin Tjia) in SmokeLong Quarterly, 2012

    “The Things Sanchez Knew” in Paper Darts, 2012

    “The Garnet Cave” in Versal, 2012

    “Make It As Beautiful As You Can” at Barrelhouse online

    “Signs” in American Short Fiction [winner, American Short(er) Fiction Prize], Fall 2011

    “How to Unravel A Mummy” in Knee-Jerk 

    “Four Minutes, Thirty-Three Seconds” in Gargoyle 2011

    “Any Little Morsel” in Berkeley Fiction Review 2011

    “Predictability of Spines” and “The Nurse” in Alice Blue Review

    “Men With Own Tuxedos” in PANK

    “The Man Sitting Behind You Is A Serial Rapist” in Wigleaf

    “English Butler, Ohio” in JMWW

    “One Way” in Pindeldyboz

    “Why Ugly Children Disappear” (poem) in Adbusters “Media Lit” July/Aug 2005

    “The Bridge at the End of the World” (poem) in Forget Magazine, 2004

    “Cafeteria Boy” (text/visual collab with Sherwin Tjia) in Kiss Machine “Love and Stars”, 2004

    “Home Sweet Home” in Rising to a Tension (Cumulus Press Tendril Anthology Series), 2003

  • Reading & Interview on the Smithsonian Institution’s Sidedoor podcast, Season 6 Episode 0: “Thomas Edison’s Demon Dolls”

    Interviewed by Sarah Hume for Story magazine

    Review: Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman for Cincinnati Review

    Interview and writing exercise on Read to Write Stories

    Review: John O’Hara’s New York Stories for PANK

    On Dan Hoyt’s “Here I Am” at Cincinnati Review Blog

    On Bernard Malamud’s “The Magic Barrel” at Missouri Review blog

    Interviewed by Daniel Cecil at Versal

    Interviewed by Marian Oman at American Short Fiction

    “The Last Book I Loved” in The Rumpus 

    Interviewed by J. Bradley at PANK

    Interview: “The End of Flawnt” for JMWW

    Review: Ron Tanner’s Kiss Me, Stranger, in The Mid-American Review

    Review: Zoe Zolbrod’s Currency, in The Mid-American Review