Short Fiction:

“Burning Lou.” Forthcoming in Fiction Southeast (http://fictionsoutheast.com) (2011.)

“Fairhope.” The Carolina Quarterly 57.3 (Spring 2006): 26-28.

“Mansions.” O. Henry Festival Stories 2005 (Winter 2006): 43-55.

“Explosions.” North Carolina Literary Review 12 (2003): 104-107.

“Traveling Grace.” Yemassee X:1 (Fall 2002): 67-79.

“Wonders.” StoryQuarterly 38 (2002): 376-385.

“Praying for Ruth.” The Carolina Quarterly 53:1 (Winter 2001): 49-56.

Creative Nonfiction:

"Traveling to Mary." Forthcoming in The Best Travel Writing 2012 (Solas Press.)

“Spiral.” Forthcoming in A River & Sound Review (http://www.riverandsoundreview.org).

“The Odd Girls: Flannery O’Connor and Me.” Shenandoah 60:1-2 (Spring/Fall 2010): 68-80.

Co-winner (with Barry Moser) of the Bevel Summers Prize for Best of Issue.

Co-winner (with James MacLeod) of the Thomas H. Carter Prize for the Essay, Vol. 60.

 “Notes on a Flood.” Inspire(d) Magazine 1:9 (July/August 2008): 20-23.

“The Fruits of Memory.” Southern Cultures 9:2 (Summer 2003): 91-97. Reprinted in Cornbread Nation 2: The Best of Southern Food Writing, ed. John Egerton. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

“Dreaming of Eudora.” The South Carolina Review 35:2 (Spring 2003): 13-18.

Selected Scholarly Articles and Reviews:

Review of Daisy Hay’s Young Romantics (Keats-Shelley Journal, 2011.)

“One Teacher’s Beginnings: Inside the Nickel and Dimed Controversy.” Published in Agora: Luther College in Conversation (Spring 2006) Delivered as a lecture in the Paideia Texts and Issues Lecture Series, February 16, 2006 at Luther College.

“‘The Common Gifts of Heaven’: Animals and Moral Education in Anna Letitia Barbauld’s ‘The Mouse’s Petition’ and ‘The Caterpillar.’” Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text 8 (June 2002).

“‘When Fantasy Meant Survival’: Writing, Class, and the Oral Tradition in the Autobiographies of Rick Bragg and Harry Crews.” The Mississippi Quarterly LIII:1 (Winter 1999-2000): 89-110.

Writing sample:

My short-short story “Fairhope,” in The Carolina Quarterly, Spring 2006