Essays:

“Look at Me,” forthcoming in Ninth Letter.

“Birds, Bees,” forthcoming in The Normal School Magazine.

“Floor on Air,” forthcoming in Lo-Ball Magazine.

“Merci,” Hotel Amerika, Fall 2010.

“Discovery,” forthcoming in The Iowa Review.

“The Goldfish History,” Fourth Genre, Vol. 12, Issue 1.

“A Private History of Shoeboxes,” Arts & Letters,Issue 22, Fall 2009.

“Things I Will Want to Tell You on Our First Date but Won’t,” Gulf Coast, Summer/Fall 2009, Vol. 21, Issue 2.

“Specimen,” Ascent, Vol. 32, No. 1, Fall 2008.

“First,” Gettysburg Review, Winter 2008.

“Practice,” The Southeast Review, Vol. 26.2, Fall 2008.

“The Men from Town,” Agni Online, Summer 2008.

“The Car Game,” The Daily Palette (UI daily arts website), Spring 2008.

“Tightrope,” Colorado Review, Fall/Winter 2007.

“Lake Effect,” Indiana Review, Winter 2007.

“Cherry Bars,” Quarterly West, Issue #63, Fall/Winter 2006-07.

“If You Knew Then What I Know Now,” River Teeth, Vol. 7.1, Fall 2005.

Anthologized Essays:

“First,” in Best American Essays 2009, Mary Oliver, guest editor, Robert Atwan, series editor. Houghton Mifflin, October 2009.

“First,” in Best American Essays, College Edition, Robert Atwan, editor. Houghton Mifflin, forthcoming in November 2009.

“Youth Group,” in You Must Be This Tall to Ride: Stories On Growing Up and Essays by the People Who Wrote Them, BJ Hollars, editor. Writer’s Digest Books, May 2009.

“If You Knew Then What I Know Now,” in Best of the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program anthology, Hope Edelman and Robin Hemley, editors. Forthcoming.

“If You Knew Then What I Know Now,” inTouchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to Present, Michael Martone and Lex Williford, editors. Simon and Schuster, December 2007.