Publications

Books and Chapbooks

• Proof of Me + Other stories, a short story collection, was awarded the 2020 New American Fiction Prize and was published March 24, 2022 by New American Press
• Published Chapbooks:
• Sugar Mountain: Stories, a flash fiction chapbook, October 2020, by Ad Hoc Press (order your copy here!) or contact Erica directly.
• Heard Around Town (fiction chapbook, by Arcadia Magazine, July 2015) (contact Erica for a copy.)
• Dry Dock (fiction chapbook, Red Bird Chapbooks, 2015) Order here

Featured Stories and Essays

• Hypertext: One Question Interview and excerpt from “Selvage” in Proof of Me (March 23, 2022)
• Essay in Writer’s Digest (Almost) Everything I Learned about Writing Fiction I learned in the Newspapers (March 23, 2022)
• “On Keeping A Broom,” an essay in The Little Patuxent Review, February 2022
• “The Mixed Medium” in Fireside Magazine, August 2021
• “Heirloom” in Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, published July, 2021
• “The Ghost Rider” in Carve Magazine (2019)
• “Verbindung Durch Angst” in The MacGuffin, Volume 37.1. 2021
• “The Shit Branch” in Tahoma Literary Review, Fall 2020
• “On Sail” in Iron Horse Literary Review, published December 31, 2020 (awarded 1st prize in the Ekphrastic “Photofinish” flash contest for this image)
• “Because I Love Her” in Cleaver Magazine (2019)
• “Marchers” in American Short Fiction online feature, Interview with ASF (Sept. 2014)
• “Hare Krishna” in Monkeybicycle (Sept. 12, 2014)
• “Cadence” in McSweeney’s #29 (2008) (trans. into Dutch, Lava, 2011) and republished in the Lascaux Review 2019

Published Fiction/Essays:

• “Don’t Look Back,” “Why my Dad Got Me an XBox for my Birthday,” and “The Seamstress Bride” in Moon City Review, Summer 2021
• “The Haircut” in Fifty Word Stories (March 4, 2021)
• “Transit Assistance in Roma” March 8, 2021, in Wanderlust and in Wanderlust 2021: A Collection of International Travel Essays (print edition). 
• “Veterans’ Day” published in The Cormorant Broadsheet (Ireland) January 2021
• “Cult of the Panda: Adventures & Old-School Fiats in Italy” in Parhelion Literary Journal, December 2020
• “Highway Dogs and their Owners” published in Pure Slush (themed anthology, Wrong Way Go Back, Winter 2020, Pure Slush, Vol. 19)
• “Bread ‘n’ Roses” in The Common’s Dispatches feature (published in the Lusophone issue, October, 2020)
• “The Sacred Family” in Ekphrastic Review, published September 2020
• “Terraria” in Tiny Seed Journal, published in September 2020
• “The Bless Day” in Stonecoast Review (essay, August 2020)
• “Ciambella for Sorella” in Exposition Review, August 2020 (awarded second place for the Travel Theme contest)
• “Saved by DJ Big Man with Beard” in Toho Journal (flash story, August 2020)
• “In Transit” in Hippocampus Magazine (flash essay in July/August 2020 issue)
• “Why My Mother is No Longer a Hairdresser” published on the London Independent Story Prize website (June 2020) with an interview
• “The Duck Walk” in Phoebe 49.2 (May 2020)
• “L’Activité Sexuelle est Interdit” and “Somniloquy” in The Wild Word (Feb. 2020)
• “How I Became an Actress” in Tiny Spoon Journal (2020)
•  “Chronicles of a Pull-Tab Hoax” in Anti-Heroin Chic (November 2019)
• “Last Day” in The Throwaway Account Zine “Getaway” issue (March 2019)
• “Leaving the Herd” in Fictive Dream (March 7, 2019)
• “Lost & Found” in Mensicus, (page 8, Issu PDF) Vol. 6.2, Australia (2018) Nominated for Best Small Fictions 2018 & Joint Winner for Best Prose
• “The Italic” in National Flash-Fiction Day Anthology, Ad Hoc Press, UK (2018)
• “The Night Mare” Vestal Review and “Sacrelicious Juices” in Vestal Review, issue 53, June 2018 (also online (linked))
• “The Ugly Rug” Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine (10.2 October 2017)
• “Carriage” in Toasted Cheese, 2018
• “How I Learned to Sew” K’in Journal, May 2018
• “The Haunted Pillow” in Entropy Magazine, April 2018
• “When The Heat Went Out on New Year’s Day We…” The Drabble, 2018
• “Why We Stole the Disco Ball from Satellite Skate” Southeast Review, 2018 (finalist, World’s Best Short-Short Story contest, broadside of story available!)
• “On the Back Rack of the Charity Shop, I Find My Father’s Coat” and “This Why We Can’t Have Nice Things” in Flash Fiction I, Ad Hoc Press, UK 2017
• “On the Way Out!” National Flash-Fiction Day Anthology, Ad Hoc Press, UK (2017)
• “Mean Girls of Camp Kennedy,” Reflex Fiction (PDF/print here), Sept. 2017
• “Caribou” in Flash Flood, June 2017
• “Shad daze” in Angel City Review 1 (Summer 2015, pg. 19 Issu pdf, inaugural issue)
• “Freezer Burn” in Little Pawtuxent Review (Winter 2015, Food Issue)
• “The Sauce” in Paper and Ink Zine (“Damn the Man” issue, April 2015)
• “The Red Thread” in Mad Had Lit (Feb. 2015) (now defunct)
• “Dandelions” and “Foreclosure” in Wigleaf with bonus postcard from New York (January 2015)
• “Dongba Road” in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal (Dec. 2014)
• “Summerhaven” in Smokelong Quarterly, with bonus interview (December 2014)
• “Hickory Wind” in Black Heart Magazine (Nov. 6, 2014)
• Story of the Week: “Stacks” in Fiction Southeast, with “Story Behind the Story” essay & audio version (fall, 2014)
• “Hell Notes” in Microliterature (Oct. 26, 2014) (now defunct)
• “Orderly” in Microfiction Monday (Sept. 1, 2014)

• “Black Cats” in 4’33’ Mag (audio file #96, now defunct) August, 2014
• “Strata” in Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine (7.1 April 2014)
• “The Silent P” in Litro Magazine (UK) (March, 2014, excerpt)
• Literary Trails of Eastern North Carolina, excerpt from “Freezer Burn” (2013)
•  “RE: Division Unification” in Swink Magazine (2012) (now defunct)
• “The Cold Front” in The New Guard (2011)
• “Annealed” in Meridian (2011)
• “Azimuth and Altitude” in Inkwell (2012) (now defunct)
• “Proof of Me” in Eleven-Eleven #11  (2011)
• “Distance” in Booth (2010)
• “A Literary Motherhood: Rosa Coldfield’s Design in Absalom, Absalom!” Mississippi Quarterly (2009)
• “Selvage” in The Greensboro Review #87 (Spring 2010)
• “The (Un)making of a Mallard” in New, Weird America art exhibit catalog (2009)
• “Evisceration Line” in Keyhole Magazine online, Sept. 2008 (now defunct) (nominated for the Million Writers Award competition)
• “Gestate” in Raleigh News & Observer Sunday Reader, (Oct. 28, 2007)
• “Follow the Directions” in Mad Hatter’s Review (2007) (now defunct)
• “Spawning Season” in North Carolina Literary Review (2007)
• “Green Monster” in Smokelong Quarterly (2006) with interview
• “Transcending America: Identity and Bharati Mukherjee’s ‘Global’ Literature.” Expatriate Indian Writing in English. Eds. T. Vinoda, P. Shiv Kumar and P. Shailaja. Delhi: Prestige Books. (June 2006)