• New York Magazine’s Science of Us, “Dating Long-Distance Means Learning a New Way to Fight,” 2017
• Washington Post – “The deadliest period of a hurricane? After it’s over,” 2017
  • Charleston Post and Courier – “Hurricane recovery can be more deadly than the storm,” 2017
  • Spartanburg Herald Journal – “Deadliest period of hurricane can be its aftermath”
• Catapult Story – “Teaching in Trumpland,” 2017
• Electric Literature – Coming Soon!
• Narratively – “Scott McLeod Missed His Chance to Go to the Moon, but He Landed the Love of His Life,” 2017
• Book Riot:
  • “5 Tips to Help You Reach Your Reading Challenge Goal This Year,” 2017
  • “How to Become an Audiobook Narrator,” 2017
  • “30 Books by Florida Authors Affected by Hurricane Irma,” 2017
  • “How to Start a Book Club that Doesn’t Suck,” 2017
  • “An Open Letter to People Who Don’t Think They Need to Read Diversely,” 2017
  • “Literary Tourism: Orlando, Florida,” 2017
  • “Environmental Fiction: A Reading List to Save the World,” 2017
  • “10 Hilarious Fiction Audiobooks for Your Summer Road Trip,” 2017
  • “10 Hilarious Nonfiction Audiobooks to Power Your Summer Road Trip,” 2017
  • “Denis Johnson Died at 67: Eulogy for an Inspiration,” 2017
  • “Thank an English Teacher,” 2017
  • “Non-Fluffy Beach Reads to Get You Ready for Summer,” 2017
• Dewey’s 24-Hour Readathon:
  • “Warm up: Short Reading Recommendations,” 2017
• Obra/Artifact:
  • “Fahrenheit 2017,” 2017
  • “Implications: On Writing Mental Illness or Why Representation Matters,” 2016
  • “Lines of Sight,” 2016
• Sample Book Reviews:
  • The Most Dangerous Place on Earth by Lindsey Lee Johnson
  • The Vegetarian by Han Kang
  • Gilded Cage by Vic James
  • Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett
  • Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
  • Cruel Beautiful World by Caroline Leavitt
  • The Ballroom by Anna Hope
  • All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood
  • Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

Writing Guides

• Layman’s Guide to Storytelling
• Writing Dynamic Characters in Fiction
• The Story of Your Character: Writing a Believable Backstory
• Why I Hate the Letter Y and Other Character Naming Pitfalls
• “Write Better Dialogue!” she shouted, losing her patience.
• A Protist’s Guide to Titling: So Easy, a Single-Celled Organism Could Do It!

• “Dear Taylor” — The Harmless Book Project
• “Barbara and Louise” — Silver Boomer Books Anthology
• “Harbor-tight Air” — The Stray Branch
• “Voglie, Antojos, Wiham” — Voiceworks
• “Plate Tectonics” — Every Day Poets
• “Rituals and Talking Turkey” — The Bloody Bridge Review
• “Like a Love Letter from a Cartographer” — Short, Fast, and Deadly
• “I Fell Asleep in Whitfield” — Anastomoo Handwritten
• “Old San Juan” — Blinking Cursor
• “To Love a Tablecloth” — Mothering Magazine
• “A Pompous Trophy Tells his Story in the Third Person” — Metazen
• “self-portrait in a yellow sundress” — Pedestal Magazine
• “souls of fish in opaque bowls” — Counterexample Poetics
• Untitled Quincouplet — Quinc Review: minimalist poetry and prose
• “The River House” — The Victorian Violet Press & Journal
• “Breathing: Advanced Search” — Googlepoems.org
• “A Drought of Mocking Birds,” “Bone China Heretics,” and “Cancer and Other Astrological Signs” — The Virtuous Mimicry (Issue #2)
• “Flower Anatomy” — vox poetica (August 24, 2010)
• “Taken Root” — Right Hand Pointing (issue 35)
• “A Box for Whale Bones” — Orion headless
• “A Dark and Quiet Place” — Indigo Rising Magazine
• “Wet April Fades Through Fleece” & “On Hips and Angelfish” — The Camel Saloon
• “Batless Vermont” — Eye of the Needle
• “Bon Secour Bay” — Nibble
• “Rescue, Post Hoc” — 20×20 Magazine (issue 4)
• “Ab Ovo” & “glory” — ditch poetry
• “Craw-daddy” — Poets for Living Waters
• “Wet April Fades through Fleece” — The Second Hump
• “Thunder Jar” “(genetic) memory” — The Delinquint