FICTION

• “Middlemen,” Alaska Quarterly Review 35, no. 3 & 4, 2019.
  • Best American Short Stories 2020, Special Mention
    
    
• “Aftermath: Hansel,” Tin House 19, no. 3, 2018.
  
  
• “Gretel’s Dreams,” Tin House 19, no. 3, 2018.
  
  
• “The Portrait,” The Threepenny Review 153, 2018.
  
  
• “Unattached,” The Carolina Quarterly 67.1, 2017.
  
  
• “The Wayside,” Epoch 66, no. 2, 2017.
  
  
• “Elegy,” The Southeast Review 34, no. 2, 2016.
  
  
• “Only the Good,” Indiana Review 37, no. 2, 2015.
  
  
• “None of These Will Bring Disaster,” Michigan Quarterly Review 54, no. 4, 2015.
  
  
• “Where We Were,” Tin House (online), May 22, 2015.

ESSAYS & NONFICTION

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  • Conan O'Brien's (Mostly Serious) Trips for Traveling the World with Just a Carry-On
  • What Should You Wear on a Flight? Fashion Critic Vanessa Friedman Has Answers.
  • The Journey to Sewing My Own Clothes Began with This Surprisingly Affordable Machine.
  • The Secret to Impeccable Danish Style Is a Pair of Unfashionable Rain Pants
    
    
• “Slime Molds,” in Atlas Obscura: Wild Life, ed. Cara Giaimo & Joshua Foer, 2024.
  
  
• ​Novels that Thwart Traditional Narrative Structure  | Lit Hub, June 2022
  A novel is not airline luggage, there are no strict rules, no arbitrary size and weight regulations that you must contemptuously squeeze your story into.
  
  
• True Crime Beyond the Genre  | CrimeReads, June 2022
  True crime is so ubiquitous that it has sprawled out beyond its own borders, into other genres that engage with its tropes while also questioning them, turning them on their head, or showing them in a new light.
  
  
• 10 Stories About Self-Destructive Women  | Electric Literature, April 2021
  No matter what the women in these stories and novels do—no matter how blatantly they lie, how many mind-altering substances they consume, how easily they turn on their loved ones—I find I am rooting for them, holding out hope that they might change.
  
  
• Locked Down in Denmark, Learning a Language and Finishing a Novel | LitHub, Feb 2021
  I was living in a new country, during a lockdown, and my life had whittled itself down to mainly one thing: the frustrating endeavor of writing a novel.
  
  
• In Defense of Millennial Politics | Common Dreams, Fall 2017
  Read it enough, and it starts to seem true: Millennials are too wracked by fear and anxiety, too fragile, too self-absorbed, too distracted by their smartphones, to be politically engaged. (co-written with Derek Denman)
  
  
• Basket Weaving 101  | MFA VS NYC, n+1/Faber and Faber
  ​Yes, many of us MFA-ers were rounding into our thirties while making 10pm IHOP runs for dinner, eating eggs that didn't look quite right, as if they came from some other kind of bird, maybe a pigeon.
  
  
• “Fitness Magazine Has Some Questions For You,” McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, 2012.