WRITING & PRESS
Novels
The Crocodile Bride, Hub City Press (US), Hauteville Romans (France)
short Fiction & Essays
“Boots on the Ground” (Garden & Gun)
Essay featured in The Book of Alchemy by Suleika Jaouad (Random House)
“A Rambunctious Pitbull Mix’s Unexpected Calm” (Garden & Gun)
“How ‘Nyad’ Helped Me Survive Cancer” (Newsweek)
“Grief Maps” (Mississippi Review, print only)
Healing on a South Carolina Horse Farm (Garden & Gun)
“Cities, Summer Forests” (The Isolation Journals)
Bringing the Unexpected to the Holiday Table (Garden & Gun)
8 Magical Novels by Women Writers (Electric Lit)
Crocodile (The Masters Review)
Daphne, in the Green Dappled Light (Covered with Fur)
Sleeping Giant (The Kenyon Review)
Small and Heavy World (The Iowa Review; Places Journal)
additional Recognition
Pushcart Prize nomination, “Grief Maps,” 2024
Artist-in-Residence, Hewnoaks, 2024
NYT Paperback Row—The Crocodile Bride 2024
Shortlist: Masters Review Reprint Prize—”Small and Heavy World,” 2023
NYTimes: Editor’s Pick—The Crocodile Bride 2022
Charles Frazier Cold Mountain Fund Series—The Crocodile Bride
Winner: Masters Review Flash Fiction Contest, 2020—“Crocodile”
Shortlist: Fractured Literary Flash Fiction Contest, 2020—“Crocodile”
Artist-in-Residence, Lighthouse Works, 2012
Shortlist: Pushcart Prize, 2011—“Small and Heavy World”
Shortlist: Best American Short Stories, 2010—“Small and Heavy World”
New Stories from the South: This Year’s Best, 2010—“Small and Heavy World”