Short Stories
Glimmer Train (Summer 2010) – “Elaborate Preparations for Departure.” Winner of the Glimmer Train Fiction Open.
Mississippi Review (Summer 2010) – “The Meat Line.” Winner of the Hackney Literary Award.
American Fiction (Fall 2010) – “Voyeuse.” Runner-up, American Fiction award.
Southern California Review (Fall 2010) – “Understanding the Sky.” Winner of the Southern California Review award.
Tampa Review (Summer 2011) – “Inheritance.” Finalist for the Danahy Award.
Sycamore Review (Summer 2011) – “Flatwater.” Second prize, Hackney Literary Award; finalist for the Wabash Prize.
Zymbol (Spring/Summer 2013) – “The Goddess, Lonely.”
Salamander (Summer 2016) – “Oxygen.”
Essays & Interviews
Here's a 2025 radio interview about The Way with Francesca Rheannon, as part of her "Writer's Voice" series: Writer's Voice
This is another 2025 radio interview about The Way, this one with Joe Donahue of Northeast Public Radio: WAMC Roundtable
And here's a 2025 written interview about the book (including its superficial resemblance to "The Last of Us") with Paul Semel: P. Semel interview
This is an essay I wrote in 2025 for CrimeReads about The Way, w/r/t spirituality in fiction: Crimereads essay
Here's a personal piece published in Lion’s Roar, a Buddhist journal, in 2020. (Note that most browsers will open this link in a new window, but for some reason Firefox sometimes downloads the PDF to your computer): Where Is My Brother?
My essay, “A Few Words AboutConflict,” appeared in the Glimmer Train online bulletin in 2010: A Few Words About Conflict