Publications

AI Research

• “A New Muse: How Guided AI Use Impacts Creativity in Online Creative Writing Courses,” white paper, OSU Ecampus Research Fellows Program, April 2025 

Novel

• The Step Back. Ooligan Press, May 2021.

Craft and Critical Essays

• “From Rules to Rebels: The Trend Against Craft.” The Writer’s Chronicle, April 2023.
• “Don’t Call It Writer’s Block.” Catapult, Sept. 2021.
• “The Thousand Pages: Tips for Transitioning to the Novel.” Poets & Writers magazine, May/June 2021.
• “Fiction and Reality: An Open Letter.” Fiction Writers Review, April 2021.
• “Why We Write: And Why We Stop.” Poets & Writers magazine, Sept./Oct. 2020.
• “This Is Your Brain on Fear: Trauma and Storytelling.” Poets & Writers magazine, May/June 2016.
• “Realism in Action: The Art of Invisibility in ‘Rules of the Game.’” Fiction Writers Review, May 2013.
• “The Heart and the Eye: How Description Can Access Emotion.” Poets & Writers magazine, Jan/Feb. 2013. Reprinted in The Science of Story: The Brain Behind Creative Nonfiction from Bloomsbury Press, Sept. 2020
• “Learning the Left Hand.” Fiction Writers Review, June 2012.
• “The Jerks: Creating Sympathetic Characters.” Poets & Writers magazine, May/June 2012.
• “The Positive Workshop.” The Writer magazine, May 2012.
• “Rejection Love.” Fiction Writers Review, March 2012.
• “The Unreliable Narrator: Finding a Voice that Truly Speaks.” Poets & Writers magazine, Sept./Oct. 2011.

Short Fiction

• “Rendezvous.” Monkeybicycle, Oct. 2020.
• “Miracles from Hell.” Passages North, winter 2020.
• “Get Free.” Flyway, winter 2018.
• “The Magic Tablet.” North Dakota Quarterly, summer/fall 2017.
• “The Commute.” Monkeybicycle, Sept. 2016.
• “The Real Version.” South Carolina Review, fall 2013.
• “Everything Is Okay.” New Madrid, summer 2013.
• “Other Girls.” Iron Horse Literary Review, fall 2011.
• “What Adults Do.” Fogged Clarity, Jan. 2011.
• “No Snakes, No Rabies.” Meridian, winter 2010.
• “The Evacuation.” Greensboro Review, fall 2009.
• “Bricks.” South Carolina Review, spring 2009.
• “Listening.” Tusculum Review, spring 2008.
• “Amanda Said I Should Go to Cuba.” Mississippi Review, summer 2006.

Creative Nonfiction

• “Intervention.” Redivider. Fall 2011.
• “Commencement.” Bluestem. Spring 2011.
• “Bat Story.” Reed Magazine. Issue 64, 2011.
• “Runner.” Natural Bridge. Spring 2010.
• “Instincts.” Brevity. January 2010.
• “Waiting to Hit.” Brevity. Fall 2008.