STORIES AND ESSAYS                                                                                                      

Allium, “Surfacing” (Forthcoming)

The American Scholar, “Origin Stories”

Cold Mountain Review, “Museum of Hard Times”

Raleigh Review, "Swept Away”

Juked, “Well-Known Stranger”

Blackbird, “Summit”
(Plus a little bit about the setting for this story and why I write the way I write.)

Electric Literature, “The Past Is Present”

The Georgia Review, “Theft”

Electric Literature, “What Flannery O’Connor Taught Me About Chronic Illness”

The Bitter Southerner, “Tidalholm”


TRAVEL WRITING                                                                                                      

Four Seasons Magazine Online, Features, Interviews, Guides

Roads & Kingdoms, “A Change Is Gonna Come”
(Growing up, I spent my summers around the Sea Islands of South Carolina; but I knew almost nothing about the racist history of coastal capitalism and the white theft of Black-owned land that nearly destroyed Gullah and Geechee communities until I moved to Savannah and began to research the region. Several years later, in 2015, I reported this piece about property tax increases on Sapelo Island, GA, and their threat to the last remaining Geechee community in the country. Full transparency: I donated the fee I was paid for this story to the Sapelo Island Cultural and Revitalization Society.)

Paste Magazine, “Weekend Layover: Big Sur, California”

Paste Magazine, “Berlin’s Best Markets”


CONTENT MARKETING  

Barry University

Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts 
(I was the digital managing editor at Four Seasons Magazine for a couple of years and then moved to Berlin and to the position of contributing editor.)

AAA

Choice Hotels 


TEACHING AND MENTORING

Deep Young Author Project
(Where I co-facilitated creative-writing workshops for Savannah middle schoolers)

First-Year Writing at Emerson College 


EXCITING THINGS

2023 Writer in Residence at Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City

Winner of the 2022 Cold Mountain Review Book Prize in Fiction for Museum of Hard Times

Notable in Best American Essays 2021 for “Well-Known Stranger”

Finalist for the North Carolina Literary Review 2021 Doris Betts Fiction Prize for “Swept Away”

2019 Artist in Residence at Crosstown Arts, Memphis

Creative Writing Fellow at Emerson College 2016 – 2019