• “Lost & Found” in Mensicus, Vol. 6.2, Australia (2018) Nominated for Best Small Fictions 2018
• “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 Sauce” in Paper and Ink Zine (“Damn the Man” issue, April 2015)
• “The Red Thread” in Mad Had Lit (Feb. 2015)
• “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
• “Hell Notes” in Microliterature (Oct. 26, 2014)
• “Stacks” in Fiction Southeast (audio series) (fall, 2014)
• “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) 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)
• “The Cold Front” in The New Guard (2011)
• “Annealed” in Meridian (2011, excerpt)
• “Azimuth and Altitude” in Inkwell (2012)
• “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)
• “Evisceration Line,” Keyhole Magazine online, Sept. 2008 (nominated for the Million Writers Award competition)
• “Gestate,” Raleigh News & Observer Sunday Reader, (Oct. 28, 2007)
• “Follow the Directions” in Mad Hatter’s Review (2007)
• “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)

Awards and Near-Hits:

• Editor’s Choice Award, 2019 “The Ghost Rider” for Carve Magazine’s, Raymond Carver short story contest
• Best of Small Fictions 2018 for “Lost & Found” in Meniscus
• Pushcart Nomination 2019 for “The Night Mare” in Vestal Review
• Finalist and semi-finalist, Moon City Review short story collection prize, for Cadence and Other Stories, 2018, 2017, 2016
• Heard Around Town (winner of the 2014 Arcadia fiction chapbook contest, July 2015)
• New American Press, finalist, Cadence and Other Stories, 2015.
• Carolina Wren Press, Doris Bakin Award, finalist, Cadence and Other Stories, 2015
• Wildacres Retreat Artist-in-Residence, July 2014
• Gold Line Press Chapbook Award, “Dry Dock,” semifinalist, 2013
• University of Georgia Press, Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, Cadence and Other Stories, finalist, 2012
• Winner, 2011, Camber Press Chapbook Contest, for the short story, “Dry Dock” (Chuck Kinder, judge) (press folded before publication)
• Finalist, 2011, Salamander, for the short story, “Azimuth and Altitude” (Jim Shepard, judge)
• Finalist, 2010, The New Guard, for “The Cold Front” (Debra Spark, judge)
• Finalist, 2010, The Journal, for “Azimuth and Altitude” (Lee K. Abbott, judge)
• Finalist, 2010 Ron Rash Award, for “Marchers” (George Singleton, judge)
• George Bennett Writer-in-Residence fellowship, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH, 2009-10
• Finalist for the Bakeless Literary Prize at Middlebury College/Bread Loaf Conference for short story manuscript,
• Cadence and Other Stories. February 2009.
• The Brenda L. Smart Fiction prize at N.C. State University (judge: C. Michael Curtis). November 2008.
• Fellowship for the Vermont Studio Center residency, from the North Carolina Arts Council, July 2

• “Selvage” (republished from Greensboro Review, forthcoming by Main Street Mag Cars Anthology, 2015)
• “How To Make it in the Movies” a set of short stories, Turn, Turn, Turn (ELJ Publications).