Selected publications:
Chapbooks:
- Sugar Mountain: Stories, a flash fiction chapbook, forthcoming by Bath Flash Fiction Award and Ad Hoc Press (runner up in the 2020 novella-in-flash competition)
- 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
- In Circulation
- Proof of Me, a short story collection
Published and Forthcoming Fiction/Essays (all):
- “Ciambella for Sorella” in Exposition Review, forthcoming August 2020 (awarded second place for the Travel Theme contest)
- “The Bless Day” in Stonecoast Review (essay forthcoming in August 2020)
- “Saved by DJ Big Man with Beard” in Toho Journal (flash story forthcoming in June 2020)
- “Bread ‘n’ Roses” in The Common’s Dispatches feature (forthcoming Lusophone issue, 2020)
- “Highway Dogs and their Owners” forthcoming in Pure Slush (themed anthology, Wrong Way Go Back, Pure Slush, Vol. 19)
- “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)
- “The Ghost Rider” in Carve Magazine (2019)
- “Because I Love Her” in Cleaver Magazine (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)
- “Hare Krishna” in Monkeybicycle (Sept. 12, 2014)
- “Orderly” in Microfiction Monday (Sept. 1, 2014)
- “Marchers” in American Short Fiction online feature, Interview with ASF (Sept. 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)
- “Cadence” in McSweeney’s #29 (2008) (trans. into Dutch, Lava, 2011) and republished in the Lascaux Review 2019
- “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)
