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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