Relief Journal, Manna, Fall 2023 (print)
“Caleb’s dad is driving home sometime today, but when Caleb and his mom and sister leave in the morning for Easter Mass, it’s pouring rain.”
Atticus Review, The Shapeshifter, August 2023
“The shapeshifter met her husband during her horse era.”
Moon City Review, Timetable for Learning to Eat Alone, March 2023 (print, Best Small Fictions 2024)
“One week: The time after which you may wish to dispose of any spices, condiments, or other edibles the two of you shared.”
Popshot Quarterly, The Inner Chamber, February 2023 (print)
“The night I slip inside my lover’s heart, I can’t escape the taste of blood, nor the smell, nor the pulsing of a beat around us like those clubs he enjoys…”
Red Rock Review, Room for Three, December 2022 (print)
“Amy’s eyes rested on pink walls, the color of raw beef.”
JMWW, It Wasn’t a Fit, December 2022
“Emma is trying to piece the fragments of her life together and make sense of things.”
Flyway, Domestication, December 2022
“Christopher rides over on his bike to ask if I want to visit our house before it’s too late, and it might already be.”
LEON Literary Review, Dreams of a Sleek, Gray Sofa with Tufted Cushions, December 2022
“Inside the man’s apartment, off a highway with high billboards and cars that rumbled all night was a creased, brown hippopotamus of a couch June refrained from telling him was ugly because he’d spent so much money on it…”
Maudlin House, Is She a Witch? Yes or No? November 2022
“Can the tinkling of a piano sometimes be heard from her apartment late at night?”
Gordon Square Review, This is Happiness, May 2022
“Ed and I are staying at a Virginia farmhouse with a chicken coop out back and a proprietor who serves red wine before dinner and complains about the neighbor’s goats getting into her blueberry bushes.”
Maine Review, Brown-Eyed Recluse, May 2022
“Nine months after Isabelle’s husband left, Isabelle lay on her rumpled bedspread, feeling a rattling in her stomach, like a marble inside her.”
Heavy Feather Review, Before All That, April 2022
“In the end, she sells me for only a hundred dollars.”
(mac)ro(mic), In the Great Grownup Game of Make Believe, February 2022
“Erin plays the part of the heroine. Cast for her soft lips and full body, she throws herself into relationships with gusto.”
Bending Genres, The Year the North Pole Finally Cracked, December 2020
“In early 2020, temperatures over the Arctic spiked, and Santa Claus finally relocated to Lower Manhattan.”
Hobart, A Problem Set, November 2020
“If Train A leaves from Washington, DC for New York at 6 a.m., and Train B leaves from Washington, DC for New York at 8 a.m., why did Train A leave while Train B was still getting ready?”
Roanoke Review, Dinnertime, July 2020
“It takes several saws back and forth before the stubborn pink chunks of meat begin to break down.”
100 Word Story, Ain’t Gonna Stick, Fall 2019
“By the time I met him, in my thirties, my expectations were properly tempered.”
The Offing, Skin Like Snake, Spring 2019
“She waits tables and writes dramatic poetry in a notebook she keeps hidden.”
The Antioch Review, Clementine, Winter 2018 (print)
“Clementine didn’t know any children’s songs.”
Wasafiri, The Last Act, September 2018 (print)
“I was lying on a wooden plank over cinder blocks at our makeshift gym when I heard a man screaming.”
Fiction Southeast, Plastic Teeth, March 2018
“Give me your teeth,” Mom says.
Lunch Ticket, The Girl Who Will Fly, Winter/Spring 2018
“My daughter, the ballerina, has a mane, thick as a horse’s.”
Literary Mama, The Long Brew, November 2018 (nominated for Best Small Fictions)
“The baby wakes and mews, soft and persistent as a puppy.”
Origins Journal, My Brother, Kareem, Fall 2016 (print)
“This is how they chip away at us, bit by bit.”
Sierra Nevada Review, “Portrait Gallery,” Forthcoming September 2024
Cease Cows, Undiscovered Laws of Physics, April 2024
“I’d like to know whether it’s possible, if you write a poem for someone you love…”
The Millions, On Madness, Motherhood, and King Lear, May 2023
“By the end of the morning, many tears will be shed, and I will look to Shakespeare’s King Lear for wisdom, but for now, we are just late for school—this time, because of socks.”
Under the Sun, Little Habitats, May 2023
“On days when the sun creeps into my apartment at an angle, when fingers of light, cut by blinds, lie across my bed, I sometimes recall a certain afternoon from my childhood.”
The Forge Literary Magazine, Body Parts, February 2023 (finalist in Forge Flash competition)
“When we met, he said he loved this body, which had given life twice over.”
Delmarva Review, Little Paradise, November 2022 (print)
“On the fifth of July, the baby pool went onto the back patio, where we never go, and stayed all summer, collecting bugs and leaves.”
Hippocampus Magazine, De-Escalation, July 2022 (nominated for Pushcart Prize)
“My son expertly held a tube of wrapping paper over one shoulder, jutted his jaw, pulled with his trigger finger, and aimed it toward me.”
Cease, Cows, Birth Pangs, April 2022 (nominated for Best of the Net)
“In the black room just before sunrise, when my kids are already burrowing into my limbs to wake me…”
The Normal School, Red House, March 2022
“There was a last time, of course, inside the little red house, like a last time for everything…”
The Fourth River, Autumn Offerings, December 2021
“I told her I didn’t need her change, although she sensed enough to turn her unicorn bank upside down and shake it onto my bed.”
Lost Balloon, Essential Parenting Terms, November 2020
“Time: That which is always lacking.”
The Forge Literary Magazine, What’s So Great About Expectations? November 2020
“She sprawls on the top bunk, her little brother lolls around on the bottom one, and I sit on my bed, next to theirs.”
Lit Hub, The Case Against Critical Feedback, October 2020
“It felt like magic: as if by one wave of a wand, my writers block was gone.”
Arlington Magazine, My Daughter’s Morbid Stories, September 2020
“The world is ending,” my 6-year-old daughter says.
Ellipsis, To a Time I Thought Would Break Me, May 2020
“This is a love letter to a seven-hundred square foot apartment”
The Washington Post, Jesus Had a Foster Father, December 2018
“Far from operating on the margins, I believe we are the very heart of this season.”
The Writer, Making Room for the Words, October 2017
“We writers can be neurotic about finding ways to make writing fit into our lives.”
Motherwell, How Storytelling Helps My Daughter Stand Up for Herself, August 2017
“At an indoor playground, a boy pushed my daughter from a collection of blocks he’d taken over in the center of the room.”
Commonweal, Unchosen Hardships, March 2017
“I could swear its googly eyes were peering back at me.”
Consequence Forum, Navalny, Putin, & Russia’s Human Rights Crisis, April 2024
“When I saw the recent news about Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s heavily policed funeral in Moscow, I couldn’t help but think of a particular scene in the 2022 documentary Navalny…”
Hayden’s Ferry Review, Imagine (With Difficulty), Spring 2023 (print)
“Pay close attention to who we hold up as a culture for expertise about foreign policy (war theorists, generals) and who we omit (peacemakers, those impacted by wars).”
War on the Rocks, Despite Rhetoric, Biden is Continuing Trump’s Weapons Sales, August 2022
“So has Biden followed through on his intention to shift U.S. policy on arms sales? A quick look at the relevant data suggests he has not.”
Just Security, Top U.S. Diplomat on Arms Control Commits to “Values-Based Security Partnerships” — Here’s How to Do That, July 2021
“For far too long, America’s security cooperation enterprise has prioritized short-term and tactical goals over longer-term diplomatic and human rights aims.”
The American Prospect, From Endless War to Endless Operations, April 2021
“Missing from these early reactions is a critical question: What does a troop withdrawal really look like in Afghanistan?”
Responsible Statecraft, The Hidden Costs of U.S. Security Cooperation, March 2021
“U.S. arms sales that prop up the war in Yemen are just the tip of the iceberg.”
Amnesty International, Separated Souls: Uighur Journalist’s Unbreakable Resolve to Help Her Detained Family, March 2018
“Gulchehra Hoja still remembers the first time her daughter, then three years old, met her grandparents.”
The Washington Post, Dictators Don’t Stabilize the Middle East, April 2016
“Terrorism flourishes in places where the government is no longer seen as being on the side of the people.”
Vox, What It’s Like to be a Political Moderate in a Ridiculously Polarized Senate, June 2016
“The phone calls always started in the late afternoons.”
U.S. News & World Report, Will There be Whistleblowers? November 2016
“Institutions aren’t destroyed overnight. It will start with little things that alone don’t seem all that significant.”
The Hill, For More Effective Diplomacy, Fix the Bureaucracy, November 2016
“There’s a little thing in the U.S. government called clearance, and it affects everything.”
DC Trending, Carole King’s Beautiful: A Songwriter’s Triumph, December 2021
“Carole King’s 1971 Tapestry album cover is an iconic image, with King sitting by the window of her California home, her cat, light shining in, bare feet and unfussy hair, the look of a woman deeply comfortable with herself.”
DC Trending, The City of Good Death… Where the Past Haunts Everyone, April 2021
“The City of Good Death opens with the discovery of a mysterious body by two boatmen on the Ganges river, in the holy Indian city of Kashi, where everyone knows three basic facts…”
DC Trending, A Beautiful Cacophony, October 2020
“The Cairo of Leila Rafei’s Spring is a medley of dust and smog, crowds, and painfully beautiful moments.”
DC Trending, The Ultimate Operator, June 2020
“Pelosi’s approach has remained constant throughout her career, endearing her to some, antagonizing others, and catapulting her to the highest and longest political leadership position of any woman in U.S. history.”
DC Trending, Black (Plague) Humor for These Dark Times, March 2020
“What kind of morality is it when some are saved from disaster and some are not, without any apparent reason? And who can focus on theater anyway, with the tragedy around us?”
DC Trending, Lions, Baboons, and Philadelphia Schoolgirls, Oh My! November 2019
“Perhaps that’s what’s most relatable about Wild Life: what are we, if not also products of our environment, shaped by the things we must learn in order to survive?”
DC Trending, Mike Maggio’s Letters from Inside, October 2019
“In Mike Maggio’s new collection of short stories, Letters from Inside, bizarre things happen to ordinary people.”
DC Trending, Read Local, October 2019
“In one of the last readings of the evening, in the shade of the Capitol Hill Books patio, Monica Prince picked up her book and read from her poem, “Flexible.”