ESSAYS 

“Drown the House”

Room Object: An Anthology of Room Project Writers, 2023

“No Place You’d Want to Go: On Writing About Flint, Michigan”

Literary Hub, March 2022

Selected for “Our Favorite LitHub Stories from 2022.”

“Dispatches from Detroit: Roamy”

Michigan Quarterly Review Online, April 2020

“The Impossible Grief of Very Young Widowhood”

Literary Hub, August 2019

“Blood & Water”

Michigan Quarterly Review, Spring 2016

Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2017

Reprinted in Utne Reader, Winter 2016

SHORT STORIES 

“Who’s Loving You”

New Ohio Review, Fall 2018 

Winner of the 2017 New Ohio Review Creative Nonfiction contest, judged by Roxane Gay 

“Miss Chicken & Dumplings 1984”

Kenyon Review Online, Summer 2018

“Northern Soul”

Indiana Review, Winter 2017

“The Union Makes Us Strong”

Midwestern Gothic, Winter 2017

“The Genesee Towers”

New Ohio Review, Fall 2016

Anthologized in New Stories From the Midwest (New American Press, 2018)

“Chevy in the Hole”

Indiana Review, Winter 2014

“Krakow”

Hayden’s Ferry Review, Winter 2013

Winner of a 2013 AWP Intro Award

“The Fireside Poets”

Michigan Quarterly Review, Spring 2013