Stories & Essays

 Stories:

“Nobody Gets Out Alive” Harper’s Magazine, August 2020

“High Jinx” McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Summer 2020

“Howl Palace” Paris Review, Fall, 2019

"An Extravaganza in Two Acts" Electric Literature, Fall, 2018

"Slide and Glide" Tin House, Summer, 2018

"Child, Dog, Stay, Run" The Literarian, Center for Fiction, 2012

"Family Pics" New York Tyrant, 2008 

"How Monster is Monster" Avery, 2007

"Not Even She Understood What She Said" Opium, 2006

"Ice Cream! Hog Dogs! Bra Tops!" Fiction, 2006

"Listening for Marianne" One Story, 2005

"Dandelion Winds" The New Orleans Review, 2005

"My Father's Best Friend's Daughter" The Albion Review, 2003

"Dad's Piano," The Northwest Review, 2002

Essays:

"The Family That Takes No For Answer," Modern Love: The Podcast, WBUR and The New York Times, 2017 

On Jayne Phillips's Sweethearts," Tin House, 2016 

"Big, Not-So-Bad Wolves," The Common, 2013

"Call of The Wild," Vogue, 2013 

"Love, Marriage and Camping in the Rain," Real Simple, 2013

"Where Everybody Knows Your Name," The New York Times City Section, 2007

"12 Things I'm Too Stubborn to Tell My Mother," Oprah.com, 2011

"Love, Friendship and the 50-cent Cheese Stick,"Oprah.com, 2011

Podcast:

"The Family That Takes No For Answer," Modern Love: The Podcast, WBUR and The New York Times, 2017