writing

the pastor’s ex

The Rumpus | short story

Forthcoming in 2026, selected by Roxane Gay.

Why did she stay? The same reasons I did

Salon | personal essay

The road to domestic violence is paved with Cartier bracelets and Hallmark cards.

Junkfood Activism: How Stepford Became Shorthand for a Certain Kind of Woman

Pleiades | review

The Stepford Wives captures the zeitgeist, providing useful shorthand to a culture as much—some would say, more—in fear of corruption and subjugation today as it was in 1972.

The Falls

storySouth | short story

When the earthen dam upstream from Toccoa Falls College collapsed at 1:30am on November 6, 1977, sending a thirty-foot-high wall of water raging through campus, I should’ve been asleep in the white-painted crib which had belonged to my older sister Angela.

The Green Fairy

Sonora Review | novel excerpt

Dress it up as you like in silk and sequins, but the fact remains: Kit sells her body for a few francs, barely enough to live on. The chasm opens again, and she tumbles forward onto the kneeler, praying like fainting, like falling into an exposure more naked than taking off her clothes.