BOOKS
Precious Ugly
Debut Novel. 7.13 Books, 2026.
Craft’s First Chapters Award Shortlist. Precious Ugly. Judged by Naomi Huffman, FSG. 2019.
Curt Johnson Prose Award for Fiction Finalist. Precious Ugly, Excerpted. Judged by Anne Tyler. 2018.
The Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals
A Collection of Stories. Patasola Press, 2011.
Editor and Closed Panel Nominations for Pushcart, Pen/Hemingway and Pen Emerging Awards.
SELECTED SHORT FICTION, ESSAYS, POETRY, INTERMEDIA & A PLAYLIST
Openings. Eckleburg.
“The Semiotics of Beavers.” North American Review.
“Gynecology and Abdominal Surgery: A Redacted Story of a Woman’s Body.” DIAGRAM
“The Trending Infection,” The Missouri Review
“If the National Book Awards 2013 Were a Star Wars Remake.” Huffington Post
“Anorgasmia, Love and Something Wrong with Her: A Discussion with Cris Mazza.” Huffington Post.
“Stochasticism, Ambition and John Cage: A Discussion with Rick Moody.” Huffington Post.
“Cherry Wollstonecraft and Justine Luscious Save the World.” Have a NYC: New York Short Stories, Three Rooms Press.
“A Love Letter to Steven Tyler’s Lips.” Gargoyle Magazine.
“In the Buff: Literary Readings, Pasties and Jiggling Genitalia.” The Paris Review.
“He-Man and a Girl Named Larry.” Sunday Salon.
“The Cutting Down is a Conceit.” Redivider.
“Piglets.” Matter: The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts.
This is My Rape. Writing on It All.
“To Naomi Wolf and Other Strange Women Who Speak for and/or About My Vagina as If It Were a Political Party.” The Nervous Breakdown.
“Leopard. Lion. She-Wolf.” Wag’s Revue.
“Is It Fun? Not So Much. Is It Necessary? Absolutely.” & Disembodied. Wieden+Kennedy’s American Dreamers.
“An Open Letter to a Suicidal Friend, a Bulimic Friend, a Long Lost Aunt, and Stephanie, Your New Linked In Connection,” McSweeney’s Internet Tendency.
“Adrien Brody, Adrien Brody, and Adrien Brody’s Nose: Critical Essay on Pop Culture, Technology and Lacanian Conceit in Literature.” The Nervous Breakdown.
“Mentors Gone Bad.” Portland Book Review.
“Rae Bryant Ponders Nabokov’s Signs & Symbols,” Beatrice.com.
“My First New York Rooftop Party.” The Quivering Pen.
“The Art of Truncation.” Ampersand Review (Multimedia), 2011.
“Coffined.” Ampersand Review (Multimedia), 2011.
“Capture Escape.” Willows Wept Review (Poetry), Fall 2010.
“Pomegranate Kiss.” The Shine Journal (Poetry), Fall 2009.
“Good Girl,” Story Quarterly.
“The Collective Unconscious of Genitalia, Annie Hall, and Coffee Cups,” Stymie Magazine: The Feminist Perspective.
Featured Author: [disemBody Words], Short, Fast and Deadly: May 2012 (Pushcart Nomination).
“The Art of Truncation,” Ampersand Review.
“Skin,” Amazing Graces, Paycock Press.
“Untitled,” En(Un)Gender Me, PS Books, Philadelphia Stories.
“Pop Modern Genesis,” Gargoyle Magazine.
“Stage Play in Five Acts of Her: Matinee,” Big Muddy (Reprint).
“The Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals, Relatives and Gin,” New World Writing.
“[Jeezus] Changed My Oil Today,” Opium Magazine.
“Emperatriz de la Orilla del Río,” PANK.
“Solipsy Street,” Metazen.
“All You Bad Sinners,” decomP.
“Postfeminist Zombie Assassins Wear Wonder Woman Underoos,” The Medulla Review.
“Featherbedding,” >kill author, Issue 8: The Vladimir Nabokov Issue.
“Stage Play in Five Acts of Her: Matinee,” New World Writing.
“Chinchillas in the Air,” Annalemma.
“Collecting Calliope,” Weave Magazine , Issue 4.
“Paddlehead,” Caper Literary Journal.
“Buttercrisp,” Pear Noir!, Issue 4.
“Monk Man and Moonshine,” Menda City Review.
“Stiletto Dance,” Foundling Review.
“Fifty Years in Halves,” Word Riot.
“Fly Fishing in Neoprene Legs,” Foliate Oak Literary Magazine.
“Everything’s Better with Pesto,” Staccato.
“Intolerable Impositions,” Bartleby Snopes.
“Street Red,” Writer’s Bloc (Rutgers-Camden).
“I Keep a Vine Woven Basket by the Front Door,” A capella Zoo, Issue 4.
“Sublimity in Turquoise Blue,” Farrago’s Wainscot.
“A Clockpunk Micro,” Thaumatrope.
“The Peregrine and the Mermaid,” Southern Fried Weirdness.
“Taboos and Tropes: Rhetoric and Writing about Rape.” FM
“A History of Bloody Point, St. Christopher’s Island (1626)” Whidbey Writers’ Award, First Place.
SELECTED REVIEWS, CRITICAL ESSAYS
& A PLAYLIST
“NOBODY’S GIRL by Virginia Roberts Giuffre.” Eckleburg. 2026.
“AMERICAN MEN by Jordan Ritter Conn.” Eckleburg. 2026.
“THE CRUELTY VIRTUES by Seth Brady Tucker.” Eckleburg. 2026.
“THE MORGUE KEEPER by Ruyan Meng.” Eckleburg. 2026.
“EPIPHANY NO. 35 | ‘Metamorphosis’ by Edidiong Uzoma Essien.” Eckleburg. 2026.
“NORTH COUNTRY by Matt Bondurant.” Eckleburg. 2025.
“HOLLER, CHILD by LaToya Watkins” Eckleburg. 2025.
“ANODYNE by Khadijah Queen.” Eckleburg. 2025.
“GHOST DOGS by Andre Dubus III.” Eckleburg. 2025.
“TENTH OF DECEMBER by George Saunders.” Washington Independent Review of Books. 2013. Politics and Prose Pick of the Week.
“DADDY LOVE by Joyce Carol Oates.” New York Journal of Books. 2013.
“PROSPEROUS FRIENDS by Christine Schutt. New York Journal of Books. 2012.
“Didn’t Leave Nobody but the Baby,” Sidney Hemphill Carter, 1959.
“WHAT MAY HAVE BEEN by Gary Percesepe and Susan Tepper.” Puerto del Sol. Spring 2011.
“Rae Bryant on Elaine Chiew.” Kill Author. August 2010.
“Going Green.” Literary Traveler. Summer Issue 2009.
“Psychological Methods to Sell Should Be Destroyed.” The Fix. June 2008.
AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS
Craft’s First Chapters Award Shortlist for Precious Ugly, Judged by Naomi Huffman, FSG. 2019.
Terry Tempest Williams Creative Nonfiction Prize Finalist for “The Semiotics of Beavers,” judged by Lidia Yuknavitch. 2019.
Curt Johnson Prose Award for Fiction Finalist for Precious Ugly excerpt, judged by Anne Tyler. 2018.
Jean M. Sartwell Scholarship, American University. 2018-2019.
College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Assistantship, American University. 2018-2019.
Gender and Diversity Program Chair, Johns Hopkins University. 2011-2018.
Aspen Summer Workshop, Advisor: Andre Dubus III, Summer 2014. Scholarship Recipient. The &NOW Awards, closed-committee nominated, 2014.
Politics & Prose Review Pick of the Week, Review of George Saunders’ Tenth of December (Random House) published in Washington Independent Review of Books, January 2013.
Pushcart Awards, Editor nominated, 2011 and 2012.
Pen Emerging Writers Award, Closed Committee Nomination, 2011.
Pen/Hemingway Award, The Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals nominated by publisher, Patasola Press, 2011.
Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Advisor: Alice McDermott (National Book Award Winner), Summer 2011. The Johns Hopkins University, Writing and Teaching Fellowship, Conference on Craft in Florence, Italy. Summer 2011.
The Johns Hopkins University, 2011 Outstanding Graduate Award.
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), Fellow in Residence, Winter 2011.
StorySouth’s Million Writers Award, Editor Nominated, 2010. Dzanc Best of the Web Editor Nominated, 2010.
Sundress Best of the Net, Editor Nominated, 2010.
Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition, Honorable Mention, 2010.
Bartleby Snopes Short Story Contest, Second Place, February 2010.
Whidbey Writers’ Student Choice Contest, First Place, July 2008.
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