NEWS & EVENTS
WILD SWAN: A Novel of Florence Nightingale, Bellevue Literary Press, NYC, Fall/Winter 2023
“City of Paris,” Conjunctions 79, Fall, 2022
“Tsunami,” LitMag, Fall, 2022
“Flat Shoals,” storySouth, May 2022
Past News & Events
February 21-22, 2020
Second Annual Carson McCullers Literary Festival
River Center for the Performing Arts
Columbus, Georgia.
With Melissa Pritchard, Sandra Meek and U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo
June 25, 2020
Interview: Friends of the Winthrop Public Library’s “Adult Author Talks”
Series including Ann Patchett, Phil Klay, Eliot Ackerman, Nancy Pearl and others.
June 28-July 4, 2020
“Art and Transformation”, The Wisdom School Doctoral Program
Ubiquity University
Chartres, France
July 25-31st, 2020
Glen Workshop Faculty, Fiction
St. John’s College
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Fiction Editor, IMAGE Journal, 2019-present
www.imagejournal.org
Pushcart Prize, “The Carnation Milk Palace”
2017 Pushcart Prize XLI, November, 2016
Recipient, The 2016 Marguerite and Lamar Smith Fellowship for Writers
The Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians
Columbus, Georgia, September 1-December 1, 2016
Anthologies & Individual Publications
“La Bete: A Figure Study”
Reprinted in CHANGES, Stories about Transformation, From the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, University of Georgia Press, Athens, Ga., 2021
“Disturbing No One”
Reprinted in A PERFECT SOUVENIR, Stories About Travel From The Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, University of Georgia Press, Athens, Ga., September, 2020.
“Taking Hold of Renee”
Reprinted in THE SLOW RELEASE, Stories about Death, From the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, University of Georgia Press, Athens, Ga. 2019
“The Carnation Milk Palace”
Hingston and Olsen’s 2019 SHORT STORY ADVENT CALENDAR, pub date December 2019
Other authors include Anthony Doerr, Lauren Groff, Jack Pendarvis, Casey Plett, Omar El Akkad
“The Sherry and Therapy Society”
STORY, Fall Issue, 2019, Issue 6, edited by Michael Nye
Story Magazine
“Hotel Majestic”
Ploughshares, Summer 2016 issue
Guest-edited by Claire Messud and James Wood
“Special Mention” 2018 Pushcart Prize XLII
“Mrs. Wisdom”
Southwest Review
Fall Issue, 2016
2015 McGinnis-Ritchie Fiction Prize
“Distinguished Story”, Best American Short Stories 2016, editor Junot Diaz
Selected for inclusion in Subway Library, a 2017 initiative launched and curated by the
New York Public Library with the NYC MTA www.SubwayLibrary.com