Selected Creative Writing

essays

“Labyrinth and the Dark Heart of Childhood" The Atlantic  “On Poverty" The Kenyon Review “Eating Goldenrod Like My Father” ELLE “The Pandemic May Change How We Treat Low-Income Parents” The New York Times “I Wrote a Road Trip Through the Apocalypse, Then We Drove It” The Rumpus “What it’s like to be a Single Parent in a Pandemic” The Washington Post “When a White Man Breaks the Law” Crime Reads “You Talk Real Good” Longreads “Red Water” The Kenyon Review “Class Dismissed” Longreads “In a Pandemic, There’s No Place I’d Rather be than Here in Appalachia” The Guardian “Partially Deaf, I Write to Be Heard” Catapult “Don’t Just Laugh at Hillbilly Elegy—its Damaging Myths Still Need to be Countered” Salon “A Feminist Reckoning for Buffy” Salon “Graffiti Taught Me Grit" Lenny Letter “Art Matters, Even When You're Poor" The Nation “Advice for Women with Book Advances” Publishers Weekly
“The Reptile King" Defunct “The Reformatory" The Museum of Americana “The Mothman Economy" The Awl

short stories

“What You Owe” SmokeLong Quarterly “The Animal Heart” Hermine “Queen" Grimoire

poems

“After the Party" and “School" Poetry “The Shed” Crazyhorse “When I Taught Mary to Eat Avocado" Verse Daily “The Rescue" New England Review (also on Verse Daily) “The Experiment” and “Safe House” The Adroit Journal “Son” “Firewheel” and “Crow Friends” Superstition Review
“If You are a Survivor"and “Rescue Me Ohio" Hobart “Suet" The Nation “Everything is an Instrument" and “Tiresias" Blackbird “Desire Lines" "Afterward" and "Dear Weather" The Rumpus
"Service" and "Sprawl" Thrush
"Buying Emergency Contraception in Elkhart" Glass Poetry Journal
"Rembrandt's Mistress" The Beloit Poetry Journal
"Child Bride" and "Marriage" Valparaiso Poetry Review 
"Banned for Life from the Artists' Colony" Triquarterly Review
“Gossip" Agni “Bug" Linebreak