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SELECTED WRITING


Fiction

"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

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

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


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

"Decoy," failbetter.com

"Two Hearts," Fiction Southeast

"Resuscitation," Blackbird

"The Famous Person," CHEAP POP

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

"Collision Physics for the Math-Averse," Booth

"The Woman Who Was a House," PANK

"Hang Up," Wigleaf


"Marv's 11 Steps," anderbo.com


Excerpt from the novel Sleeping Woman (TTYW's original title), Freight Stories



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




Journalism &Nonfiction

"Reading in the Bardo," Poets & Writers Magazine

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