Publications

Books

2023. No Use Pretending. University of Iowa Press.
Winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award, selected by Gish Jen

Edited Volumes

Forthcoming. “Keeping.” In K. Somerville and S. Morgan (Eds.), Life Support: Stories of Health and Medicine. Missouri Review Books / TMR. (Reprinted from “Keeping,” 2021, The Missouri Review, 44(1): 21–41)

2015. Executive Editor. Best Indie Lit New England, Vol. 2: 2012–2014. Black Key Press.

2013. Executive Editor. Best Indie Lit New England, Vol. 1: 2010–2012. Black Key Press.

Short Stories

2023. “The Watchman.”The Cincinnati Review 20(1): 133–140.
Winner of the 2022 Robert & Adele Schiff Award for Fiction

2021. “Keeping.” The Missouri Review 44(1): 21–41. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mis.2021.0004
Winner of the 2020 Jeffery E. Smith Editors’ Prize for Fiction
Cited as a Distinguished Story in Best American Short Stories 2022

2019. “All at Sea.”Gulf Coast 31(1): 56–68. https://gulfcoastmag.org/journal/31.1-winter/spring-2019/all-at-sea/

2017. “The Master of Sleep.”Chicago Quarterly Review 25: 41-51.

2016. “Ghost Bike.”Beloit Fiction Journal 29: 62–74.

2015. “Two Valleys.”Consequence Magazine 7: 69–81.

2014. “The Death of Elpenor.”Chicago Quarterly Review 18: 150–157.

2013. “Evidence of Harm.”Conium Review 2(2): 17–35.

2012. “Creek People.”Beloit Fiction Journal 25: 52-65.

Essays & Scholarly Writing

2022. “Rethinking the Craft of Fiction Writing: Resources on Teaching and Learning Creative Writing.” Choice 59(6). (Expanded manuscript version available on this site.)

2017. “Structure, Perspective, Editing: A Writer’s Favorite Books on Craft.” [Link is to PDF]The Review Review, January 30.

2017. “From the Library to Las Vegas: The Role of Research in the Writing Process.”Tishman Review 3(1): 123–126.

2013. “The Poetics of Presence.”Printer’s Devil Review 3(1): 62–71.

2003.The Politics of Impossibility: A Socio-symbolic Analysis of Society, Identification, and Ideology. Master’s Thesis, Ohio State University.

Book Reviews

2024. Data Dilemmas: Sinnreich and Gilbert Examine the Impacts of Data. [Featured review of the book The Secret Life of Data: Navigating Hype and Uncertainty in the Age of Algorithmic Surveillance by A. Sinnreich & J. Gilbert.] Choice.

2022. [Review of the book How to Tell a Story: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Storytelling for Writers and Readers by Aristotle, translated by Philip Freeman.] Choice 60 (9).

2022. [Review of the book Climate Change in Popular Culture: A Warming World in the American Imagination by James Craig Holte.] Choice 60 (7).

2022. [Review of the book Climate Lyricism by Min Hyoung Song.] Choice 60 (3).

2022. [Review of the book Genre and Extravagance in the Novel by Jed Rasula.] Choice 60(1).

2022. [Review of the book Refuse To Be Done by Matt Bell.] Choice 59(12).

Digital Projects

Campana, Andrew and Thomas Dodson. 2014. “自動化 | Automation.”Printer’s Devil Review 4(2).