"Bricks," forthcoming
"Kore," forthcoming
"March 4, 1984," Kestrel (forthcoming)
"Echolalia," The Worcester Review (forthcoming)
"Tidal," The Examined Life
"Samothrace," Hunger Mountain, Runner-Up, Ruth Stone Poetry Prize
"Lethe," Hamilton Stone Rev iew
"Lacuna," Tipton Poetry Journal
"North," Stone Poetry Quarterly
"Colorado," Ariadne Magazine
"Inversion Layer," Town Creek Poetry
"Cartology," JMWW
Select Poetry
"Cathedral," forthcoming
"We Keep Nothing," Copper Nickel (forthcoming)
"Memento," Pembroke Magazine (2023)
"On the Days My Mother Doesn't Know My Face," Alllium (2023)
"Betelgeuse," Wraparound South (2014)
"Sidewinder," Indiana Review (Summer 2012)
"Black Eye," West Branch Wired (Sept. 2011)
"Paradiso," Water~Stone Review (No. 14, 2011)
"Sea of Tranquility," American Short Fiction (Summer 2011)
"The Last He Knew," Weber (Spring/Summer 2011)
"Weights and Measures," Avery Anthology 6 (Aug. 2010)
"Halo," Green Mountains Review (2009)
"Castle Rock," The Fiddlehead (Winter 2009)
"Shelter," Short Story (Fall 2008)
"Mourning the Departed," Carve (Sept. 2008)
"Taking the 11:10," Oklahoma Review (Spring 2008
"Walking the Reservoir at Night," Clapboard House (Winter 2008), Wigleaf Top 50
"Visitation," Chicago Quarterly Review (forthcoming)
"My Mother's Language" and "The Waiting Room," Weber
"Ithaca," Phoebe (Summer 2012)
"Lay My Head," Fairy Tale Review (2011 O.Henry Prize Anth.)
"Tremble," Quarterly West (September 2011)
"Rise," Crab-Orchard Review (Fall/Winter 2011)
"Galatea," Third Coast (Spring 2011)
"Nephilim," One Story (Oct. 2010) (Pushcart Prize)
"Wrecking Ball," Bellingham Review (2010)
"Stealing Time," Oxford Magazine (Summer 2009)
"Dead Languages," Southern Review (Winter 2009)
"Hive," South Dakota Review (Winter 2008)
"Ghost Girl," Storyglossia (Oct. 2008)
"What We Leave Behind," Rosebud Magazine (Fall 2008)
Select Prose
2023 Eyelands International Book Award (for The Vanishing Sky)
Runner-up for the Ruth Stone Poetry Prize
Finalist for Literary Fiction, Colorado Book Award
PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, 2013 (for "Lay My Head")
ForeWord Firsts Summer 2012 Prize (for outstanding fiction debut)
2011 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction (judged by Laura Kasischke)
2011 Dr. Neila C. Seshachari Fiction Award (for "The Last He Knew," which appeared in Weber: The Contemporary West)
Pushcart Prize, Pushcart Prize XXXVI (for "Nephilim")
Second Place, 2011 American Short Fiction Contest (judged by Wells Tower)
Finalist, 2010 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
Finalist, 2010 Iowa Review Award
Semi-Finalist, 2010 Katherine Anne Porter Prize
Honorable Mention, 2009 Robert and Adele Prize for Fiction (judged by Brock Clarke)
Finalist, 2009 Tobias Wolff Award
Wiglead Long List, 2009
Second Place, 2008 Raymond Carver Short Story Contest (judged by Cristina Henriquez)
Honorable Mention, 2008 Red Hen Press Short Fiction Contest (judged by Ron Carlson)
StorySouth Notable Story, 2008
Finalist,2008 Rick DeMarinis Short Fiction Contest
Awards