Short Fiction Print Selected Short Fiction Online Essays, Reviews, and Interviews Future Tense
Short Fiction Print
- Glamour, The Big Selfie Debate
- The Minnesota Review, Open Marriage
- Barrelhouse, Q & A
- Bitch, On Stereotypes: Carrying the Burden of Being Strong
- Prairie Schooner, The Year I Learned Everything
- Oxford American, Group Fitness
- Los Angeles Review, Typical First Year Professor
- West Branch, I Will Follow You
- Frequencies, See Me Feel Me Let Me Belong
- Ninth Letter, To Scratch, Grope, or Claw Clumsily or Frantically
- Mid American Review, Sentimental Lies, Marvelous Creatures, Stiff Creams and Veloutes
- Virginia Quarterly Review, Bad Feminist
- American Short Fiction, We Are the Sacrifice of Darkness
- Kugelmass, The Art of the Rejection of Rejection
- The Pinch, Sweet on the Tongue
- The Normal School, Glades People and Critical Mass
- Noon, A Pat
- Anobium 2, Handsome Men Who Love Ugly Women
- Versal 10, Who We Are Beneath the Glass
- Indiana Review, How to Write a Love Story
- Willow Springs, Through the Womb
- Passages North, The Nature of Living Things
- Cream City Review, We Are All So Happy Now
- Hobart 12, North Country
- Heavy Feather Review, How All Things Rot
- The Chattahoochee Review, More Hers Than His
- Black Warrior Review 37.2, Strange Gods
- Quick Fiction, Voodoo Child
- Uncanny Valley, Bare-chested Men in Public Make Me Uncomfortable
- Annalemma 7, Five Pieces of a Broken Heart
- Avery Anthology, Lucy Lives in a World of Infinite Possibility
- Lifted Brow, The World Around Us: Alexander’s Steakhouse
- Santa Fe Literary Review, Around Her Neck, the Weight of Stones
- A Cappella Zoo, Requiem for a Glass Heart
- Annalemma 6, How
- Artifice, Contrapasso
- Big Muddy, Baby Arm
- The Broken Plate, Technicolor Girl
- Emerson Review, Perfect Teeth Make a Pretty Smile
- Gargoyle 56, How the Girl in the Glass Sheds Her Skin
- Midwestern Gothic 1, Down to Bone
- Mid-American Review 31.1, Review, American Amen by Gary McDowell
- Mid-American Review 30, Down to Bone
- Monkeybicycle 7, The Weight of Water
- Pear Noir!, In the Event of My Father’s Death
- Sententia, Ever. Happily. After
- Thunderclap, The Why of Everything, Everything, Everything
- TRNSFR #4, The Harder They Come
- Weave No. 3, Cheap, Fast, Filling
- Wrong Tree Review, Other Blood
Selected Short Fiction Online
- ANNALEMMA, Pilgrims
- ATTICUS REVIEW, GLASS
- ATTICUS REVIEW, I Did Not Marry for Love
- ATTICUS REVIEW, The Good Wife
- BARCELONA REVIEW, What They Say About Happily Ever After (Novel Excerpt)
- BARRELHOUSE, Best Features
- BEAT THE DUST, Come Find Save Get Me (Novel Excerpt)
- BOOTH, Winesburg, Indiana: Tara Jenkins
- BLIP (FORMERLY THE MISSISSIPPI REVIEW ONLINE), Baby Arm
- CARIBBEAN REVIEW OF BOOKS, THE, Lacrimosa
- CATALONIAN REVIEW, THE, Procedural
- COBALT REVIEW, Something Sweet For Someone Good To Hold Onto
- COLLAGIST, THE, La Negra Blanca
- CORIUM, Inner Geographies
- DECOMP, Motherfuckers
- DARK SKY MAGAZINE, We Are Magnificent
- DIAGRAM, Little Babies
- DOGZPLOT, What Long Legs Mean
- EMPRISE REVIEW, The Small Tragedies of Children
- EVERYDAY GENIUS, Boys in Drag
- FIDDLEBACK, THE, In the Dark of Day and Light of Night I Am Your Bright Shining Star
- FOUNDLING REVIEW, THE, We Didn’t Mind The Fire And We Watched While It All Burned
- FRIGG, Law & Order: The Complete Series
- FRIGG, Very Lovely Ending
- FRINGE, Begin Chest Compressions
- FWRICTION REVIEW, Girls With Eating Disorders
- GOOD MEN PROJECT, Knife Man
- GUERNICA, There is No E in Zombi Which Means There Can Be No You Or Me
- HOBART, Brief Encounters With Famous Men, Famous Women, Fictional Men
- HOBART, Fathers, Sons, Acorns, Oak Trees
- IN DIGEST, Dead Baby Stories
- JMWW, His Name Is
- JOYLAND, Break All the Way Down
- JOYLAND, For the Benefit of Others
- KNEE JERK, Gravity at the End of the World
Notable Story, 2009 Million Writers Award - KILL AUTHOR, Important Things to Know About Career Girls
- LITERARIAN, THE, I Am a Knife
- MATTER PRESS, We’re Going to Vacation on a Yacht in the Middle of a Deep Blue Ocean
- MCSWEENEY’S INTERNET TENDENCY, I’m Going to Cook a Quiche in My Easy Bake Oven and You Are Going to Like It
- MELVILLE HOUSE, John F Kennedy (Be a Good Boy)
- MONKEYBICYCLE, Notes on Motorized Carts
- MUD LUSCIOUS, Other Sisters
Nominated for the Micro Award - NECESSARY FICTION, Things I Know About Fairy Tales
Notable Story, 2009 Million Writers Award - NIGHT TRAIN, Mark of Cain
Nominated for the 2010 Million Writers Award - NIGHT TRAIN, The Shape of My Mouth
- NORTHVILLE REVIEW, THE, Girls at the Bar
- NORTHVILLE REVIEW, THE, I Want to Sit Courtside at a Lakers Game
- NORTHVILLE REVIEW, THE, Queries Involving Tyler Perry, Difficult Decisions and Two Skanks
- PINDELDYBOZ, Between Things
Notable Story, 2009 Million Writers Award - RED LIGHTBULBS, The Dissection of the Human Heart
- REFLECTION’S EDGE, The Mistress of Baby Breath
- REPRINT, THE, Contrapasso
- REPRINT, THE, How
- RICK MAGAZINE (FORMERLY THE MISSISSIPPI REVIEW ONLINE), Baby Arm
- SAWMILL, THE, Before Death Comes Honesty
- SPORK, Do You Have a Place For Me?
Nominated for Dzanc’s Best of the Web
Notable Story, 2010 Million Writers Award
Top Ten Story Million Writers Award - SPORK, La Lonchera
- STACCATO FICTION, Ways in Which Looks Deceive
- STOKED, How the Girl in Glass Sheds Her Skin
- STORYGLOSSIA, Bad Priest
- STORYGLOSSIA, We Do Not Speak of Graceful Things
- STORYVILLE, In the Manner of Water or Light
- STYMIE MAGAZINE, Just Be Nice
- SX SALON, What After Looks Like
- J. ECKLEBURG REVIEW, The Weight of a Heart in the Palm of My Hand
- TARPAULIN SKY, You Never Knew How Waters Ran So Cruel So Deep
- TREEHOUSE, Girl/Box
- TWELVE STORIES, This Program Contains Actual Surgical Procedures
Notable Story, 2009 Million Writers Award
Top Ten Story, 2009 Million Writers Award - TWO SERIOUS LADIES, Lucy Lives in a World of Infinite Possibility
- USED FURNITURE REVIEW, Beautiful Babettte, the Wandering Nymphette
- USED FURNITURE REVIEW, The Myth of Fingerprints
- WAG’S REVUE, Satellite, Rain
- WIGLEAF, Apocalypse Story
- WIGLEAF, Dear Wigleaf
- WIGLEAF, How it Is
- WIGLEAF, I Know Things About the Girls Next Door
- WIGLEAF, The Widow Takes Her Coffee Black
- WIGLEAF, When I Am Fifteen, I Will Not Fall In Love
- WIGLEAF, The Anatomy of a Good Woman
- WORD RIOT, Bone Density
Notable Story, 2009 Million Writers Award - WUFNIKS, They Shall Know Holy Places
YOU MUST BE THIS TALL TO RIDE, Perfect Like Normal We Practice
Essays, Reviews, and Interviews
In addition to my contributions at HTMLGIANT:
- THE AESTHETE, Lone Star
- AMERICAN PROSPECT, Food TV’s Sadistic Glee
- AMERICAN PROSPECT, Last Day of a Young Black Man
- BARNES & NOBLE, The Charge to Be Fair: Ta-Nehisi Coates and Roxane Gay in Conversation
- BOOKFORUM, An Interview with Laird Hunt
- BOOKFORUM, Wise Crack: James Hannaham gives a new voice to addiction
- BOOKFORUM, An Interview with Meg Wolitzer
- BOOKFORUM, Review: Bedrock Faith by Eric Charles May
- BOOKFORUM, Review: You Are One of Them by Elliott Holt
- BOOKSLUT, An Interview With Tayari Jones
- BOOKSLUT, An Interview With Dawn Tripp
- BOOKSLUT, Garish, Glorious, Spectacles
- BOOKSLUT, I Once Was Miss America
- BOOKSLUT, Reaching for Catharsis: Getting Fat Right (or Wrong) In Diana Spechler’s Skinny
- BOOKSLUT, We Must All Be So Strong
- BREVITY, There Are Distances Between Us
- Nominated for a Pushcart Prize
- BUZZFEED, Identity Thief and the Narrow Road For Overweight Actresses
- BUZZFEED, Not Here to Make Friends
- BUZZFEED, Surviving Django
- BUZZFEED, The Answers We Look For in War Literature
- THE COMMON, The Super Museum
- THE DAILY BEAST, The Modern Lolita: A Conversation with Alissa Nutting
- THE DAILY BEAST, The Werewolf Novel as Post-9/11 Allegory?
- DEFUNCT, May Your Hair Mark the Path Behind You
- DIODE, Review: Heavy Petting by Gregory Sherl
- ELLE, Roxane Gay: Getting Dumped on Valentine’s Day Was ‘For the Best’
- FLYWHEEL MAGAZINE, L’Epee de Damocles (Vehicular Manslaughter
- FULL STOP, Review: With the Animals
- FREERANGE NONFICTION, Once I Was Pretty
- THE GUARDIAN, God Help the Child by Toni Morrison Review – ‘Incredibly Powerful’
- THE GUARDIAN, Indiana is not protecting religious freedom but outright zealotry
- THE GUARDIAN, I am giving up hating Valentine’s Day. Celebrating love is a beautiful thing
- THE GUARDIAN, Beyoncé’s Control of Her Own Image Belies hooks ‘Slave’ Critique
- THE HAIRPIN, Adventures with UPS Man
- LUNA PARK REVIEW, I Don’t Know How to Write About Race
- MORNING NEWS, THE, Tournament of Books Quarterfinals, The Goldfinch vs People in the Trees
- NATION, THE, Broader, Better Literary Conversations
- NATION, THE, A Conversation with Kiese Laymon
- NATION, THE, A Literature of Her Own: Patricia Engel’s It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris
- NATION, THE, Reading the Stakes in Syria
- NATION, THE, Rising Above the Failure of Imagination
- NATION, THE, Strange Lands
- NATION, THE, Urgent, Unheard Stories
- NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, Why The Help is Hopeless
- NEW YORK, Reality Rumble Round Two: ANTM versus Idol Seasons 2
- NEW YORK, The Ten Best Books About Modern Virgins
- NEW YORK, Where Are the Movies About Non-Suffering Black People?
- NEW YORK TIMES, Of Lions and Men: Mourning Samuel DuBose and Cecil the Lion
- NEW YORK TIMES, On the Death of Sandra Bland and Our Vulnerable Bodies
- NEW YORK TIMES, Why I Can’t Forgive Dylann Roof
- NEW YORK TIMES, Why the Beach Is a Bummer
- NEW YORK TIMES, The Marriage Plot
- NEW YORK TIMES, Review, Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
- NEW YORK TIMES, Review, The Residue Years by Mitchell S. Jackson
- NEW YORK TIMES, Review, Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
- NPR, A Compelling Plot Gives Way To Farce In Franzen’s Purity
- NPR CODE SWITCH, Why I Can’t Forgive Dylann Roof
- RELUCTANT HABITS, Roundtable Discussion of Dana Spiotta’s Stone Arabia
- RUMPUS, THE, The Alienable Rights of Women
- RUMPUS, THE, Beyond the Measure of Men
- RUMPUS, THE, The Careless Language of Sexual Violence
- RUMPUS, THE, Dear Young Ladies Who Love Chris Brown So Much They Are Willing To Let Him Beat Them:
- RUMPUS, THE, Eleven
- RUMPUS, THE, Girls Girls Girls
- RUMPUS, THE, How a Wound Heals
- RUMPUS, THE, How We All Lose
- RUMPUS, THE, An Interview with Blake Butler
- RUMPUS, THE, An Interview with Jim Gavin
- RUMPUS, THE, An Interview with Julianna Baggott
- RUMPUS, THE, The Last Book I Loved: This is Not Your City by Caitlin Horrocks
- RUMPUS, THE, Peculiar Benefits
- RUMPUS, THE, A Play About Post-Racial America in Seven Acts
- RUMPUS, THE, A Play About the Men at My Gym in Five Acts
- RUMPUS, THE, A Place Where We Are Everything
- RUMPUS, THE, The Politics of Entitlement
- RUMPUS, THE, Reading Roundup, Fall 2012
- RUMPUS, THE, Resolved: A Year of Great(er) Expectations
- RUMPUS, THE, The Safety of Illusion/The Illusion of Safety
- RUMPUS, THE, The Solace of Preparing Fried Foods and Other Quaint Remembrances from 1960s Mississippi: Thoughts on The Help
- RUMPUS, THE, Spit and Mud
- RUMPUS, THE, Still With the Scarlet Letters
- RUMPUS, THE, A Tale of Three Coming Out Stories
- RUMPUS, THE, Toward a More Complete Measure of Excellence
- RUMPUS, THE, Call. Compassion. Response.
- RUMPUS, THE, The Trouble With Prince Charming or He Who Trespassed Against Us
- RUMPUS, THE, We Are Many, We Are Everywhere
- RUMPUS, THE, What We Hunger For
- RUMPUS, THE, Where I Write: A Cabin on the Lakefront
- RUMPUS, THE, The Whole World, Opened Up
- SALON, 41 Books David Gilmour Should Read
- SALON, The Anger of the Male Novelist
- SALON, The Bar for TV Diversity is Way Too Low
- SALON, Celebrity Apologies are Meaningless
- SALON, Compartmentalizing Woody Allen
- SALON, Counting Women Matters
- SALON, Daniel Tosh and Rape Jokes: Still Not Funny
- SALON, Franzen Doesn’t Get Twitter
- SALON, Game of Thrones and the Glamorization of Rape
- SALON, George Zimmerman and American’s Problem with Heroism
- SALON, How America Profiled Trayvon Martin and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
- SALON, How Black Girls Die in America
- SALON, The Importance of Feeling Seen
- SALON, Interview, Claire Vaye Watkins
- SALON, Interview, Dick Wolf
- SALON, Is Obama Failing the Black Community?
- SALON, Jezebel’s Lena Dunham Mistake
- SALON, Jonah Lehrer Throws It All Away
- SALON, Justine Sacco’s Aftermath: The Cost of Twitter Outrage
- SALON, The Media’s Michelle Obama Problem
- SALON, Michele Obama, Feminist Nightmare? How Lazy Journalism Hurts Feminism
- SALON, Miley Cyrus Doesn’t Need Your Open Letters
- SALON, Paula Deen’s Racism Isn’t Shocking At All
- SALON, The Power of Communal Grief
- SALON, Racism Is Every American’s Problem
- SALON, Sick Culture Cheers Sandusky Verdict
- SALON, Sorry, the Patriarchy Isn’t Dead
- SALON, Twitter Isn’t Killing Books
- SALON, The Way We Talk About Sexual Assault is Broken
- SALON, We’ve Made Monsters of Ourselves
- SALON, What Men Want, America Delivers
- SALON, When No One Said Anything
- SALON, When Twitter Does What Journalism Can’t
- SALON, Why America Needs Twitter Outrage
- SALON, Why We Read The New York Times Wealth Porn
- SALON, Women Know More Than Just Love and Sex
- SALON, Woody Allen Is Just The Beginning: Why We Can’t Hide From the Truth Anymore
- SLATE, The Trouble with ‘Women You Should Be Reading Now’ Lists
- THOUGHT CATALOG, A Brief Retrospective of the Pine-Sol Lady
- TIME, Leslie Jones Uses Slavery to Make a Point About Being Black and Beautiful
- TIN HOUSE, A Literary Flyover
- TIN HOUSE, Wants and Needs, A Conversation with Ben Schrank
- THE TOAST, Not So Guilty Pleasures: The Fast and the Furious
- VQR, The Price of Black Ambition
- VULTURE, Roxane Gay Talks to Lena Dunham About Her New Book, Feminism, and the Benefits of Being Criticized Online
- XOJANE, My Body is Wildly Undisciplined
- XOJANE, What Becomes of the Dream
- THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, Is Love (Color) Blind?
- THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, One Step Forward, One Step Back