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SELECTED WRITING


Fiction

"Gone for Good," forthcoming in Sycamore Review

"I'm Not Who You Think I Am," Zone 3

"The World in its Entirety an Open Door," Necessary Fiction

"Nothing and Nobody," Blackbird

"Bad Enough With Genghis Khan," Boston Review


"Decoy," failbetter.com

"Two Hearts," Fiction Southeast

"Resuscitation," Blackbird

"The Famous Person," CHEAP POP

"13 Things Your Mail Carrier Won't Tell You," Booth

"The Woman Who Was a House," PANK

"Hang Up," Wigleaf


Excerpt from the novel Sleeping Woman,*  Freight Stories

*TTYW's original title


Short Humor


"Hope you're enjoying March Madness here in Indianapolis. Could you move that mask up?" The Washington Post

"Seven Women on His Mind:
The 'Take it Easy' Ladies Tell All,"
McSweeney's


"One Year Has Passed Since I Mislabeled My Child's Halloween Costume on Facebook:
Where is the Outrage?"
Monkeybicycle


"Janet Jackson's Concert for the Pantsuit Nation:
Field Notes from a Dance Interpreter,
" Monkeybicycle



Poetry

"Why This Pregnant Woman Walked Out of a Subway Restaurant in Tears," "The Return of Sad Beck, Thank God," Hobart

"Can't Stop," Memoir Mixtapes

"Connect," Brain, Child

"How One Jellyfish Stung 100 People," Punchnel's

"Astronauts Answer YouTube Questions from Space," Sweet


"The Mystery of the World," Juked

"Something in the Way," "The Tax Clown," "In the Trunk," Blood Orange Review




Essays & Journalism

"Reading in the Bardo," Poets & Writers Magazine

"Side B," forthcoming in River Teeth

The Hits Keep Coming for Michael Koryta, Indianapolis Monthly

Book Review: Author in Chief by Craig Fehrman, Indianapolis Monthly

"I Hope My Grandchildren Will Know Me By This Book," An Interview with Patricia Henley for The Millions

"Cut the Sentimentality," An Interview with Polly Rosenwaike for The Millions

"Then Again, Maybe I Will: The Reads I Kept Hidden in My Youth," The Millions

"My Less-than-Glossy Life," The Indianapolis Star

"Why I Banned 'The Handmaid's Tale,' and Why We Need it More than Ever," Salon

"A New Chapter for IUPUI's Center for Ray Bradbury Studies," Indianapolis Monthly

"Another Earth," The Humanist


"Landscape and Longing," An Interview with Beth (Bich Minh) Nguyen for Fiction Writers Review

"A Kind of Flag-Planting," An Interview with Aimee Bender for Guernica




INTERVIEWS etc.

Interviewed by James Figy for Fail Better series, FEAR NO LIT

John Ketzenberger's Business Insider column, The Indianapolis Star

Interviewed by Michael Noll (with craft exercise), Read to Write Stories

Interviewed by Barney T. Haney for Fiction Writers Review

Interviewed by James Tadd Adcox for
Chicago Literati

Interviewed by Amy Lynch for The Indianapolis Star

What I'm Trying to Say podcast, aka WITTScast

Book Notes playlist at Largehearted Boy

The Next Best Book Club

Interviewed by Theresa Beckhusen for Metonymy Media

Wordlab Recap

Podcast with The Geeky Press