Books and Chapbooks
Afterlight (book). Galileo Press (forthcoming).
Rachel’s Tomb (novel), New Issues Press, 2019.
AWP Award Series Prize for the Novel
Hackney Literary Award for the Novel
Glass Essays (poetry and creative nonfiction chapbook), Variant Literature, 2023.
Northern Cowboy (creative nonfiction chapbook), Green Rabbit Press/Saint Leo Univ., 2021.
Wilt Prize for Creative Nonfiction, Lightning Key Review
Desert Castles (creative nonfiction chapbook), Southern Indiana Univ. Press, 2019.
Thomas A. Wilhelmus Award, Southern Indiana Review
Refereed Academic Articles
“Under Straining Eyes: Joseph Conrad and the Problem of ‘Moral Luck.'” Conrad and Ethics, Laetitia Crémona and Amar Acheraiou, eds. Eastern and Western Perspectives, Columbia UP, 2021.
“Where ‘Beasts’ Spirits Wail’: Rosenberg, Sassoon and the Emergence of Animal Rights.” Otherness: Essays and Studies. Vol. 8, No. 1. Spring, 2021. Pp. 13-33.
“Conrad’s Ecological Problem.” Conrad and Nature. John G. Peters, Lissa Schneider-Rebozo, Jeffrey McCarthy, eds. Routledge, Feb. 2018. Pp. 198-210. Paperback edition, 2020.
“‘What Manner of Heretic?’: Demons in McCarthy and the Question of Agency.” Western American Literature. Vol. 47, No. 4, Winter 2013. Pp. 387-401.
“‘No Audible Tick’: Conrad, McTaggart, and the Revolt Against Time.” The Conradian. Vol. 37.1, Spring 2012. Pp. 32-45. Winner of the Bruce Harkness Young Conrad Scholar Award from the Joseph Conrad Society of America.
Stories
“The Marxist.” The Queens Review. Spring, 2026, print.
“An Urgent Message from Your University.” FLARE: The Flagler Review. Fall, 2022.
“The Slapathon.” The MacGuffin. Vol. 37, No. 3, Fall 2021.
“Kiki.” The Ocotillo Review. Vol. 5, No. 2, Summer 2021.
“A Report from the Academy” (fiction). Washington Square Review. No. 45, Spring, 2020.
“Musclewood” (fiction). Louisville Review. No. 88, Fall 2020.
“Human Kneads” (fiction). Hypertext Magazine. Vol. 5. Fall, 2019. Nomination, Best American Short Stories, 2019.
“Shadow Matter” (fiction). North Dakota Quarterly. Vol. 86, No. 1-2. Spring, Summer 2019.
“The Listener” (fiction). Contrary Magazine. Summer, 2019.
“Vons” (fiction). The Swamp. Vol. 4, 2019.
“An Open Letter to the Airbnb Guest Who Left a Nipple Clamp in Our One-Year-Old’s Crib” (fiction). LUMINA. Vol. XVIII. 2019.
“The Cleaning” (fiction). pacificREVIEW. 2019.
“Milked, Or, The Rise and Fall of Samuel M. Lipschitz, M.D.: A Tragedy in Four Acts” (novelette). ArLiJo. No. 128, Dec. 2019.
“Earthly Allowances” (fiction). Sierra Nevada Review. Vol. 29, 2018.
“Opticon” (fiction). Euphony. May 3, 2017.
“The Brothers Kaplan” (fiction). The Long Story, Short. 2017.
“Discipline and Punish” (fiction). Chiron Review. 2017.
“Application of C. McCarthy to the Iowa Writers’ Workshop” (fiction). Noctua Review. Vol. IX, 2016.
“The Enchantment of Alon” (fiction). Joyland. July, 2016.
“The Hit” (fiction). Mud City. Issue 2, Spring, 2016.
“Ivan’s Last Cigarette” (novel excerpt). Birmingham Arts Journal. Vol. 13, Issue 2. Summer, 2016.
“Manuscript Decision” (fiction). Beloit Fiction Journal. Vol. 29, Spring, 2016.
“Reserve” (fiction). The Timberline Review. No. 2. Winter/Spring, 2016.
“Stick-Light” (fiction). Tampa Review. Vol. 51/52, 2016.
“Core” (fiction). Crack the Spine. Issue 176, December, 2015.
“Ponderous Things” (fiction). The Madison Review. Spring, 2015. Finalist, Chris O’Malley Prize in Fiction.
“Against the Heavens” (fiction). Crossborder. Vol. 3, No. 2., Fall, 2015.
“The Addict” (fiction). Southwestern American Literature. Vol. 39, No. 2, Spring, 2014.
“Nechama’s Gun” (fiction). World Literature Today. Vol. 88, No. 1, January, 2014.
“An Affair” (fiction). The Rag. Issue 6, May, 2014.
“The Killer” (fiction). Kenyon Review Online. Summer, 2013.
“Application of E. Hemingway to the University of Idaho” (fiction). Tin House. Jan., 2013.
“The Inspection” (fiction). Shenandoah. Vol. 63, No. 1. Winter, 2013.
“The Consultant” (fiction). Five Quarterly. Jan., 2013.
“Application of J. Christ to the Columbia Executive MBA Program” (fiction). Portland Review. Dec., 2012.
“G-Shock” (novel excerpt). Anamesa. Vol. 10, No. 1, Spring, 2012.
“Herman’s Discovery” (novel excerpt). The Loudest Voice Anthology. Borsuk, Amaranth, ed. Los Angeles: The Loudest Voice Books, 2010.
Creative Nonfiction, Essays, and Poetry
“Strike” (essay). The North American Review. Forthcoming.
“Sirens” (essay). Cutleaf. Forthcoming.
“Small Wounds” (essay). Dunes Review. Vol. 30, No. 1, 2026, print.
“On Fear” (essay). Clackamas Literary Review. Vol. XXX, print.
“Kings of Pop.” Under the Sun. Vol. XXX, Issue I, Spring 2025. Nominated for Best American Essays.
“Time is now for paid family leave for state employees.” Mississippi Today. Feb. 18, 2025.
“Before Dusk” (essay). Washington Square Review. Issue 50, Fall, 2023.
“Professors Call for State to Reverse the Changes to Tenure in Mississippi” (co-authored op-ed). The Clarion Ledger. Jan. 8, 2023.
“Lake Thoreau” (essay). The Threepenny Review. Fall 2022.
“Orange Beach” (prose poem). The Normal School. Dec. 2021.
“‘The Invisible Enemy’: James Jones and the Politics of Grief” (essay). The Montréal Review. Summer, 2021.
“Elegy, 1991” (essay). Northwest Review. Fall 2021.
“Bug” (essay). The Carolina Quarterly. 2021.
“Block” (essay). Orange Blossom Review. No. 6. June, 2021.
“They Can’t Breathe: A Review of Katherine Isobel Baxter’s Imagined States: Law and Literature in Nigeria, 1900-1966.” Joseph Conrad Today. Fall, 2021.
“Summoning Roethke” (essay). Epiphany Magazine. Nov., 2020.
Supplement to “The Fall of Washington,” Notre Dame Review. 2020.
“In the Lake, Before Dark” (essay). CutBank. Vol. 93, 2020.
“The Fall of Washington” (essay). Notre Dame Review. Winter/Spring, 2020.
“Squad” (essay). Inkwell. 2020.
“On the Most Magical Kiss in the History of Hollywood, or, at Least, My Reagan-Era Youth” (essay). “Obsession” Anthology, Gimmick Press. 2020. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
“Northern Cowboy” (essay). Moon City Review. 2020.
“It Isn’t Easy Being Green: A Review of Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy’s Green Modernism.” Joseph Conrad Today. Spring, 2020.
“Dreidel” (essay). Stone Canoe. 2019.
“Michigan, Dusk” (poem). Red Rock Review. 2019.
“Watercress” (poem). B O D Y. June 26, 2019.
“The Gospel of Dearth” (essay). MAYDAY Magazine. Issue 13. Summer, 2018.
“Haven” (essay). The Laurel Review. 2018.
“Study After Bacon” (essay). storySouth. 2018.
“Opiates of the Masses” (essay). Another Chicago Magazine.
“Teaching as a Veteran, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Composition” (essay). Rubbertop Review. 2018.
“Morning Sun” (essay). Broad River Review. 2018.
“Lost in the Fog” (essay). Sweet. 2018.
“The Works” (essay). Little Patuxent Review.
“The Mystery of Rembrandt’s Jewish Bride” (essay). Free State Review.
“Desert Castles” (essay). Chariton Review. 2017.
— Anthologized in Humanity. Eileen R. Tabios, ed. San Mateo, CA: Paloma Press, 2018.
“Black Earth” (essay). Lake Effect. 2017.
Untitled piece (essay). FORTH Magazine. 2017.
“Lesser Learning” (essay). The Chattahoochee Review. Vol. 37, No. 2-3, Fall, 2017.
“On Winning” (essay). REAL: Regarding Arts & Letters. Vol. 40, No. 2. Spring and Summer, 2017.
“An Essay on Human Liberation” (essay). States of the Union. Jan. 27, 2017.
“Penthouse, Or, the Blissfulness of Youth” (essay). Chicago Quarterly Review. Vol. 23, 2016.
“Reflections on Fraud and Deceit: Or, Four Splendid Summer Reads” (review). Tikkun. June, 2016.
“On the Purity of Baseball” (essay). Hobart.
“Of Musk and Beer: Remembering Chicago Stadium” (essay). Sport Literate. 20th Anniversary Issue, Vol. 9, No. 2, Fall, 2015.
“The Short Crappy Life of Walter J. Palmer, or, The Oddities of American Wealth” (essay). Tikkun. Aug., 2015.
“Everything is Exhumed: Michael Pitre’s Postmodern Elegy” (review). Fiction Writers’ Review. Mar. 12, 2015.
“The Jerusalem Forest” (essay). Boston Review. March/April, 2015.
“Perpetual Revision: An Interview with Stephan Eirik Clark” (review-interview). Fiction Writers’ Review. Sept. 15, 2014.
“Alona Kimhi’s Magical Brutalism” (review). Tikkun. Feb., 2014.
“Gus Van Sant: A Reappraisal” (essay). Packingtown Review. Vol. 5, Fall, 2013.
“Liberace’s Luster” (essay). Packingtown Review. Vol. 5, Fall, 2013.
“On the Erotic Appeal of Bill Murray” (essay). Packingtown Review. Vol. 4, Spring, 2013.
“21 Junk Street” (essay). Packingtown Review. Vol. 4, Spring, 2013.
“Woolf, West, and the Conundrum of Veterans” (essay). Tikkun. Nov., 2013.
“To Have and Have Not: The Latest from Edeet Ravel and Jim Harrison” (review). Tikkun. Aug., 2013.
“Discharge” (poem). Shark Reef. Winter, 2013.
“On the Duty of Writers” (essay). Fiction Southeast.
“In Josaphat’s Valley” (essay). Harpur Palate. Vol. 12, No. 1, Fall, 2012.
“All Is Not Quiet: Reading Remarque in a War Zone” (essay). The Journal of Military Experience. Vol. 2, July, 2012.
“The Shot: An Appraisal” (essay). Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature. Vol. 29, No. 1, Fall 2011/Winter 2012.
“The Missing” (essay). Crab Orchard Review. Volume 14, Number 1, Winter/Spring 2009. Winner of the 2008 John Gunyon Contest in Non-Fiction.
“On Fighting in Jenin” (essay). The Truth About The Fact: International Journal of Literary Nonfiction. Spring 2009, Volume IV Number I.