Stories

“Playspace,” forthcoming in McSweeney’s
“Snowy-white, Rosy-red, Will You?” forthcoming in Ecotone
“Lidded” at Conjunctions online, 2022
“Milk” in Conjunctions, 2020
“The Renaissance Person Tournament” in CRAFT, 2017
“The Drop” in the Common, 2016
“All the Keys to All the Doors” for Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, introduction by Megan Mayhew Bergman, 2016
“Ailments” in the Kenyon Review, 2016
“Granna” in Ecotone, 2014, and an excerpt in Littsburgh, 2016
“The Saltwater Cure” in Day One, 2014
“World’s End” in One Story, 2012
“We Show What We Have Learned” in Hayden’s Ferry Review and The Best American Nonrequired Reading, 2011
“Hourglass” in Willow Springs, 2011
“Assembly” in n + 1, 2011

Interviews, READINGS, & Profiles

The Rumpus, 2024
I’m a Writer But podcast, 2024
Chicago Review of Books, 2024
Writing Stories podcast, 2024
Writer’s Digest, 2024
UnCHARTed Territory with Claire Comstock-Gay for Wordplay at the Loft Literary Center
Sheltering with Maris Kreizman for Lit Hub, 2020
Electric Literature, 2020
The Believer, 2020
The Rumpus, 2020
Boston Globe, 2020
American Short Fiction, 2020
Fiction Writers Review, 2020
Franklin Park Virtual Reading Series, Episode 3, with Deb Olin Unferth, Gabriel Bump, and Malcolm Tariq, 2020
The Antibody Reading Series, with Brian Gresko, Afia Atakora, and Kirkland Hamill, 2020
Let’s Talk Books, with Christian Chiu, Douglas Stuart, and Rachel Vorona Cote, 2020
Mt. Lebanon Library virtual author visit, 2020
LIT Talks, Pen & Brush, virtual reading and conversation with Mary South, 2020
Lighthouse Lit Reading, with Tara Conklin, Melissa Ragsly, and Kathryn Winograd, 2020
Falmouth Academy Community Series, 2020
Lockdown Lit @ Lunch, presented by The Booksmith and Zyzzyva, with Rachel Vorona Cote, 2020
Pittsburgh City Paper, 2020
TK podcast with James Scott, 2017
WESA Prosody podcast with Jane McCafferty, 2017
New York Public Library with Vincent Piazza, 2017
One Story, 2017
The Common, 2017
WCAI, 2016
Flavorwire, 2016
Shelf-Awareness, 2016
Boston Globe, 2016
The State of Things with Frank Stasio, 2016
Additional Readings podcast, 2016
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 2016
Littsburgh, 2016
Pittsburgh City Paper, 2016
Encore, 2016
One Story, 2012
Hayden’s Ferry Review, 2010

Essays

“Sandy Hook and Its Ghosts” for People.com, 2024
“The Unbearable Uncertainty of Pregnancy” for Vogue.com, 2024
"What the Shadowy History of Women’s Health Tells Us About Its Uncertain Future” for Lit Hub, 2024
“Of Womb-Furie, Hysteria, and Other Misnomers of the Feminine Condition” for Lit Hub, 2020
“How the Women Became Little” for The Millions, 2020
On Location for the Ecotone + Lookout blog, 2016
Clare Beams’s Ten Pieces of Writing Advice for The Story Prize blog, 2016
“On Magic” for Ploughshares, 2016
“Literary Teachers and Their Lessons” for Ploughshares, 2015
“Reading about Reading” for Ploughshares, 2015
“On Inspiration, and What I’m Doing While the Muses Are Talking to Other People” for Hayden’s Ferry Review
Author’s statement, National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, 2014

in the news

WNYC’s All of It Books for February
WYPR’s The Weekly Reader
Largehearted Boy Book Notes Playlist for The Illness Lesson
2017 Shirley Jackson Award announcement
2017 Young Lions Finalist announcement
2017 PEN Literary Awards Finalist announcement
2016/17 Story Prize Longlist
Boston Globe’s Four New England Writers
Pittsburgh City Paper’s Eight Notable Titles by Local Authors
Bookish: This Week’s Hot Releases
Pittsburgh Quarterly’s Six Books for Your Winter Reading List
The Riveter’s Favorite Books of 2016
Largehearted Boy Book Notes Playlist for We Show What We Have Learned
Small Presses, Big Ideas, Kirkus
Wilmington Star News
Brit + Co
Raquel Barrientos of Newtonville Books for Literary Hub’s The Great Booksellers Fall 2016 Preview
Steph Opitz for the Lit Up Show
Get Booked, Book Riot Live with Jade Chang
Book Riot’s Inbox/Outbox from Amanda Nelson
Liberty’s Corner for the Litsy newsletter
My Bookit List
Seven Books We’re Looking Forward to This Fall, The Masters Review
Janet Geddis of Avid Bookshop for TK Podcast
Little Gems with Big Impact, Musing from Parnassus Books