“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 Jeffrey E. Smith Editor’s Prize for Essay
— Selected as a Notable Essay in the 2017 Best American Essays anthology