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Books

The Great Lakes Anthology

Forthcoming from Belt Publishing in 2026

Winner of the 20216 National Federation of State Poetry Societies

Fiction

Bellevue Literary Review, 2025

Salamander Magazine, 2025 (Winner of the 2024 Fiction Contest, selected by Kevin Wilson)

Zone 3, 2023

"Construction Season"

Cosmonauts Avenue, 2022

"The Avondale Tunnel"

Iron Horse Literary Review, 2020

"The Second Life of Lazarus"

Noble/Gas Qtrly, Issue 206

"Trivia"

Five:2:One Magazine, 2018

"Skids"

Marquette Literary Review, 2018

"Installations"

Likely Red Magazine, 2018

"Refresh"

Stonecrop Magazine, 2018

"The Woman of Belden Avenue"

Chicago Literati, 2017

"Gorgeous"

Welter, 2016

"Babyface"

Litro Magazine, 2016

"Mercy"

South 85 Journal, 2016

"One Last Thing About Sam"

Mangrove Literary Journal, 2016

Poetry

"Apotheosis"

minnesota review, 2021

Up North Lit, 2021

North American Review, 2020

"The Bagman"

The Dallas Review, Volume 7

"Chicago"

Black Heart Magazine, DISARM Anti-Gun Anthology

"Four Poems"

The Arlington Review, Issue 100

Selected Reviews

Scientific American, 2023

Chicago Review of Books, 2022

Fiction Writers Review, 2021

Kenyon Review Online, 2019

"Citizen Illegal by José Olivarez"

Prairie Schooner, 2019

Selected Interviews

Richard Powers

LA Review of Books, 2024

Chicago Review of Books, 2023

Electric Lit, 2023

Chicago Review of Books, 2023

Electric Lit, 2022

Electric Lit, 2022

The Rumpus, 2021

Chicago Review of Books, 2021

Chicago Review of Books, 2020

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