Fiction

  • Forthcoming: “The Hunt” African American Review (Fall/Winter 2025)

  • Forthcoming: “The Flood” Arkansas International Review (Summer 2025)

  • “On the Nature of Good and Evil” Harvard Review, Issue 62 (Fall 2024)

  • “The Levee” Transition, Issue 134 (Fall 2023)

  • “Empire of the Sea” Brittle Paper (November 2022)

  • “The Habit of Sleep” Middle House Review Anthology (May 2022)

  • “Son of God, Son of the Earth” Susurrus, Issue 1 (August 2021)

  • “The List” Best Debut Short Stories 2021 (2021)*

  • “The List” Kestrel (Spring 2019)

Nonfiction

  • “How to Break a Boy” Superstition Review, Issue 31 (Spring 2023)

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“Eunice was just the opposite. She ate so little she’d dwindled down to some distilled essence, as if everything superficial had been burned away and what remained was fierce and raw and naked as an unsheathed sword.”

- from “The List”

“According to the stories, angels had descended and breathed into the bodies of early proto-humans that burning particle of God called the soul, and like the angels the resulting creatures were tireless, sleepless, and heaven a living memory in them. But slowly as they evolved and explored their surroundings, spreading across the earth and traveling the seven seas, the memories of their origins began to fade until eventually they slumbered into legend, and the people acquired the habit of sleep.”

- from “The Habit of Sleep”

“It meant that he was both the child of the living god and the child of the living earth.”
— from "Son of God, Son of the Earth"