Selected Publications
"Nola Face," Tahoma Literary Review, October 2022. Selected as Notable in Best American Essays 2023.
"The Case for Cunt," Full Grown People, December 2021. Selected as Notable in Best American Essays 2022.
"Kingdom of Babes," Hoxie Gorge Review, Summer 2020. Selected as Notable in Best American Essays 2021.
"An Essay Entitled 'Mrs.'", Waxwing Literary Journal, Spring 2019, Nominated for Best of the Net Anthology 2019.
Craft Essays
“The Art of Traumedy Writing: Or, How to Make your Mother Cry at Your Life and Laugh at Your Death,” Brevity Blog, April 2024
“Just Show Me the Good Parts: Deconstructing Situation and the Story,” Brevity Blog, July 2023
“Style Over Substance (At Least for Today): Revisiting The Situation in the Story in the CNF Classroom,” Essay Daily Advent 2022
“The Art of Attention: Jill Christman’s If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays,” The Rumpus, December 2022
“Shitty Fifth Drafts (With Praise and Apologies to Anne Lamott),” Essay Daily Advent 2021
“Reading Beth Ann Fennelly’s Heating & Cooling as Yoga for the Writer’s Mind,” Essay Daily Advent 2020
Awards and Honors
Literary Arts Fellowship (Prose) from the Alabama State Council on the Arts, 2023-2024
Instructor Award for Excellence in Diversity Efforts, English Department, University of Alabama, April 2022
National Champion, March Faxness Essay (Music Writing) Tournament, March 2022
“Bobbitt,” essay nominated for Pushcart Prize Anthology 2022
“Exercises,” Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2019, ed. Robert Atwan, guest editor Rebecca Solnit
“Bugginess,” essay finalist for the 2019 Lamar York Prize
Sustainable Arts Foundation Grant, Fall 2018, Award Finalist
“Exercises,” winner of the 2018 William Bradley Prize for the Essay
“McCleaning with the Dustbuster,” essay semi-finalist in the 2017 William Faulkner Wisdom Creative Writing Competition
Instructor Award for Excellence in Teaching, English Department, University of Alabama, April 2017