Publication List

Books

Skin, University of Nebraska Press, Flyover Fiction Series, editor: Ron Hansen, 2006
Compression Scars, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award, UGA Press, 2002

Anthologies

"The Girl, the Wolf, the Crone," forthcoming in Contemporary Fairy Tales, Penguin
"Secession, XX," in Not Normal, Illinois: Peculiar Fictions from the Flyover, U of Indiana Press, 2009
"Infarction," in You Have Time for This: Contemporary American Short-Short Stories, Ooligan Press, 2008
"Transmigration," in Birds in the Hand: Fiction and Poetry About Birds, North Point, 2004

Selected Short Fiction and Novel Chapters

"The Girl, the Wolf, the Crone," forthcoming in Fairy Tale Review
"Four Horsemen," forthcoming in DIAGRAM
"Shambles," forthcoming in Flash: The International Short-Short Magazine
"Desertion," Double Room, summer 2009
"The Soft-Footed Phantom Speaks," Third Coast, fall 2008
"Couvade," Sonora Review, spring 2009
"The End of the World, the Wend of the Lord," DIAGRAM, 2008
"Rabbit Catcher of Kingdom Come," Fairy Tale Review, the White Issue
"Threnody," Ninth Letter, spring/summer 2007
"Requiem for the Living," CutBank, spring 2006
"Digesting the Father," The Kenyon Review, fall 2005
"Star-Dogged Moon," The Gettysburg Review, spring 2002
"Secession, XX," The Kenyon Review, spring 2002
"Translation," Der Wandler: Zeitschrift für Literatur, winter 2001
"Swallowing Angels Whole," Third Coast, 2001
"Rachel in the Mirror," The Gettysburg Review, winter 2000
"Hallie Out of This World," Prairie Schooner, fall 1999
"Sherman and the Swan," Chelsea, winter 1995
"Blue Skin," Columbia: A Magazine of Poetry and Prose, fall 1994
"Godlight," Another Chicago Magazine, summer 1994

Essays

"The 'skirls and screaks' of 'the deserving dead': Stanley Elkin's Death-Defying
Maximalism," in Casebook on Stanley Elkin's The Magic Kingdom, Dalkey Archive Press
"Confluence," Flannery O'Connor: In Celebration of Genius, Hill Street Press, 2000