In parallel to my painting practice, I am a fiction writer and editor. My stories and essays have appeared in Tin House, Electric Literature, American Short Fiction, Zyzzyva, The Baffler, and Guernica, among other publications. I received my MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2021 and currently teach Creative Writing at The Reader, Berlin. I regularly collaborate with other artists and writers as a mentor and editor to bring their work into finished form. I am currently at work on my first novel, Assisted Living.
Selected short fiction
Vanishing Point, Virginia Quarterly Review, December 2021
Appointment, American Short Fiction, March 2020
Can a Cat, Electric Literature, October 2010
Patients, Juked, March 2019
The Gift, Tin House, December 2019
The Art of Ending, The Masters Review, July 2019
Casa Nirvana, Zyzzyva, March 2018
Flood, Fire, Fish, Electric Literature, January 2018
Something We Can All Enjoy Together, The New Haven Review, August 2017
Free for the Right People, American Chordata, December 2016
Preparing for Disaster, Blue Five Notebook, August 2016
Aurelia and Oriel, Gone Lawn, August 2016
When He Lived with Us, The Exposition Review, July 2016
One More Time, Bosque Magazine, August 2014
Milk Teeth, Stand Magazine, June 2014
Selected criticism
A Stranger in Town: Catherine Lacey’s Pew, Guernica, July 2020
Sharon Eyal: Crooked Unison, SLEEK, July 2019
Hypernovelization: Olga Slavnikova’s The Man Who Couldn’t Die, The Baffler, January 2019
The Lunatic Face of Fiction: Joy Williams's The Changeling, The Baffler, April 2018
The Politics of Representation: Jesse Ball's Census, The Outline, February 2018
Alice Neel Uptown, Broadly, Vice, February 2017
A Woman’s Fate: Rachel Cusk's Transit, Broadly, Vice, January 2017
Surviving the Anthropecene: Pony Express's Ecosexual Bathhouse, Broadly, Vice, May 2016
Selected interviews
Painting Dark Portraits: A Conversation with Lewis Hammond, Bomb Magazine, March 2023
Living and Writing in the Age of Extinction: A Conversation with Elvia Wilk, Electric Literature, July 2022
Who Do You Confess Your Sins To? A Conversation with Catherine Lacey, Electric Literature, July 2020
Bringing Black Women into the Canon: Mickalene Thomas, Broadly, Vice, August 2016
Wandering Catholics: Giulia Bianchi's photographs of female priests, Broadly, Vice, June 2016
The Artless Image: Rose Wylie, Broadly, Vice, May 2016
Flirting With Surveillance: Jill Magid, Broadly, Vice, May 2016
A Walkway Through the Digital World: Heather Phillipson, Broadly, Vice, February 2016
Suppressed Histories: the photography of Milagros del Torro, Broadly, Vice, January 2016
Soft Paintings, Hard Women: Amy Cutler, Broadly, Vice, December 2015
Personal essay
Small Worlds, The New Haven Review, December 2010