Short Works

Essays and Journalism

“7:10 in Provincetown”
Off Assignment

“Elevating the Arts in Phnom Penh”
Going Places

Book Review, 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

“My Son Loves Guns”
The Cut, reprinted in New York Magazine

“An American Revolutionary in Cuba”
Panorama

“Polly Jean”
Memorious

“Drawn to the Dark Side”
Psychology Today

“The Burmese Dreams Series”
Post Road

Selected for Best American Travel Writing 2011

Notable Travel Writing, Best American Travel Writing

Selected for Best American Travel Writing 2000

“Lard is Good For You”
Coffee Journal

FICTION

“Sin Alley”
Midway Journal

“Something Will Grow”
Prairie Schooner

“Heathens”
AGNI

Special Mention in Pushcart Prize XXIX                   

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

“Shelter”
The Barcelona Review