“Limb from Limb”
There are three screws in the body of a G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero figure, but the only one that matters is the one in the middle of their back. You stab them there to take them apart...
New England Review, Winter 2024

“Nathan”
I had been volunteering at the ape house for four months before I was invited to meet Nathan…
Longreads, May 2023
— Best American Science and Nature Writing 2024 selection
— Pushcart Prize Nominated
— American Society of Journalists and Authors Honorable Mention in First Person Essay Category 2024
— Finalist, 2022 Missouri Review Jeffrey E. Smith Editor’s Prize for Essay

“Son of the Gun”
I have been debating whether or not I will teach my daughter to shoot for longer than she has been alive…
Consequence Forum, Spring 2023

“In the Petrified Forest”
The argument settled into silence just as my wife and I pulled off the interstate to follow signs for Petrified Forest National Park…
Ruminate, Fall/Winter 2022
— Finalist, 2018 Missouri Review Jeffrey E. Smith Editor’s Prize for Essay

“Secondhand”
From 20 years away, your father’s war looks a lot like smoke…
New Letters, Summer 2020
— “Getting Ahold of the Heart,” New Letters Special Feature and Q&A.
— Pushcart Prize Nominated

“Eclipse”
To distract myself from the fact that my dog is dying, I check the headlines…
The Sun, January 2018

“Worry”
I started at the ape house during my first semester of academic probation…
The Missouri Review, Summer 2016
— Finalist, 2015 Missouri Review Jeffrey E. Smith Editor’s Prize for Essay
— Selected as a Notable Essay in the 2017 Best American Essays anthology

Fiction:

“A Move to New Country”
The WahZhaZhe were a sky people first, before we came down to the Earth to begin a new life…
Reckoning (8), Spring 2024
— Pushcart Prize Nominated

“So I said I floss”
So I said ‘Sure, I floss.’ and immediately regretted it...
The Razor, July 2022

“No Machine”
When the sun is two trees up, the learners call Clyde to the room for work…
Electric Literature’s The Commuter (vol 33), October 2018

Other:

Boulevard Craft Interview: Chelsea T. Hicks
— Boulevard, Winter 2025

“Researchers seek treatments for veterans combating chronic injury”
—UMSL Daily, November 2015

“MIMH certifies first deaf Mental Health First Aid instructors”
—UMSL Daily, May 2015

“Ferguson Clergy Revitalization Breakfast hosted at UMSL”
—MIMH.edu News, November, 2014