Recent Accolades and Publications

My essay “Police bodycams are supposed to be tools for accountability. Are they?” is up at The Guardian!
My story “The Arch of the Eyebrow” - a queer take on creepy child films like The Bad Seed and The Omen - is in the new issue of Castle Jackal.
I reviewed Alex DiFrancesco’s excellent Breaking the Curse for Chicago Review of Books and Jason K. Friedman’s enlightening Liberty Street for Rain Taxi.
My story “Not Another Time L∞p!” is up at Short Story, Long
I was part of a roundtable discussion on queer climate fiction over at Lambda Literary
My essay “Forget Boyfriends, I’m Reading for Cults” is up at Electric Literature.
My essay “Remembering Margot Kidder: Hollywood Superwoman and Box Office Queen” is up at Rolling Stone!
My story “Pastora, in Blue” is up at Isele Magazine (2023)
I have a very short story (“We, the Sisters Who Live Upstate”) up over at HAD (2023)
“Is the Sky Falling or Are We Rising Towards the Lord?” is up at Fairy Tale Review (2023)
My micro “The Seeds That We Bury, The Fields That We Reap” is up at hex
My novella The Nuckelavee is out from the wonderful Alien Buddha Press.
My story “Devil’s Island” from PANK’s Environmental Futures Folio was named a Notable Story in Best American Mystery and Suspense 2022
Runner-Up for the C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize (for manuscript What Used to Be Caracas: Stories)
“When Lies Turn to Prophecies” featured in The New York Times as one of their “Seven Favorite Summer Tiny Love Stories”

Books

The Nuckelavee. Forthcoming from Alien Buddha Press (2023).

Also included in The Alien Buddha’s Full Moon Mashup (2023)

Gay Zoo Day: Tales of Seeking and Discovery. Beautiful Dreamer Press (2017).

Winner of the Silver IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award for LGBT Literature
Semifinalist for the Conium Prize (2017)

Short Fiction

“The Arch of the Eyebrow” in Castle Jackal (2024)

“Not Another Time L∞p!” in Short Story, Long (2023)

“Pastora, in Blue” in Isele Magazine (2023)

“We, the Sisters Who Live Upstate” in HAD (2023)

“Is the Sky Falling or Are We Rising Towards the Lord?” in Fairy Tale Review (2023)

“The Seeds That We Bury, The Fields That They Reap” in hex’s “Haunted Love” folio (Spring 2023)

“Trillium” in Monkeybicycle (Autumn 2021)

“The Secrets of the Last Greenland Shark” in Grist’s Imagine 2200 (Summer 2021)

One of 12 winning stories of Grist's Imagine2200 Fiction contest
Finalist for Salamander’s annual fiction contest
Also included in Afterglow: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors (The New Press, 2023)

“Devil’s Island” in PANK’s Environmental Futures Folio (Spring 2021)

“The Pioneer” in Agnes Scott College Writers’ Festival Magazine (Spring 2021)

Won the Agnes Scott College Writers’ Festival Fiction Contest
Selected as a finalist by novelist Jen Beagin, selected as the winner by former US poet laureate/Pulitzer Prize winner Rita Dove and award-winning playwright-librettist Jacqueline Goldfinger.

“Wild Gods” in Booth (Issue 15, 2020)