Short Works

Essays

“7:10 in Provincetown” • Off Assignment

“An American Revolutionary in Cuba” • Panorama

“The Burmese Dreams Series” • Post Road (Notable Travel Writing, Best American Travel Writing 2011)

“What Happens in Burma” • The Smart Set

“The Answer Was No” • Gulf Coast (Notable Travel Writing, Best American Travel Writing 2005) • Reprinted in The Smart Set

“My Son Loves Guns” • New York Magazine

Journalism/Criticism

“Why Trauma Writers Lie To Us” • UnHerd

“What Happened After the War? Interview with BK Tuon” • The Rumpus

“Elevating the Arts in Phnom Penh” • Going Places

“What Does it Mean to Be Free? A review of On Freedom by Maggie Nelson” • The Boston Globe

“Patches of History: Practices of Memoir & Documentary” • BOMB

“Beautiful, Queer, Maddening: What ‘Ratched’ Says about Lesbian Villains” • Go Magazine

“What to Read When You Want to Run Away from your Life” • The Rumpus

“Remembering Edmund White, Queer Mentor” • The Writer’s Chronicle

Fiction

“Heathens” • excerpt at AGNI • Special Mention in Pushcart Prize XXIX

“Something Will Grow” • Prairie Schooner

“Thirty Seconds” excerpt at NJ Spotlight News

“Sin Alley” • Midway Journal

“Shelter” • The Barcelona Review

“Untitled (coy, beached, salt)” • The Iowa Review