SELECTED WRITING
Fiction
"Where Light Can't Reach," upstreet Magazine
"Gone for Good," 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
Satire & Short Humor
"I've Been to Ireland Once. The Banshees of Inisherin Should Win Best Picture."
The Belladonna Comedy
"Regretsy: 'Exceedingly remorseful' you took part in that insurrection?
There's an app for that," Salon
"In the Aftermath of the Mass Shooting in (Name of City)," Newsweek
"Hope you're enjoying March Madness here in Indianapolis.
Could you move that mask up?" The Washington Post
"Unsolved Mysteries: Who's that Lady?" Weekly Humorist
"Live and Let Live, Laugh, Love," Slackjaw
"I Know, Right?" Translated, Points in Case
"I Am The Mom in the Mop Commercial, and I Am Ready to Be
the Mom in the Vacation Commercial," Points in Case
"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
Essays & Journalism
"A Lifting of Burdens: A Conversation with Mirza Waheed," Identity Theory
"How Do You Know When to Stop Revising?" by Bryan Furuness and Sarah Layden, Poets & Writers
"Revising with Lenses" by Bryan Furuness and Sarah Layden, Brevity
Review of The Islands by Dionne Irving, Indiana Authors Awards Book Reviews
"Q&A with The Islands Author Dionne Irving," Indianapolis Monthly
"Found in Translation: Mapping Budi Darma's People from Bloomington," The Millions
"Adrian Matejka Is No Square Poet," Indianapolis Monthly
"Reading in the Bardo," Poets & Writers Magazine
"Side B," River Teeth
"Leah Johnson is Back with Another Hit Novel," Indianapolis Monthly
"How Austin's Only Doctor Fought HIV in a Town Indiana Left Behind," Indianapolis Monthly
Review of Never Far Away by Michael Koryta, Indiana Authors Awards Book Reviews
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
Poetry
"Missing Trees," Doubleback Review
"Why This Pregnant Woman Walked Out of a Subway Restaurant in Tears,"
and "The Return of Sad Beck, Thank God," Hobart
"Can't Stop," Memoir Mixtapes
"Connect," Brain, Child Magazine
"Astronauts Answer YouTube Questions from Space," Sweet
"The Mystery of the World," Juked
"In the Trunk," "Something in the Way," "The Tax Clown," Blood Orange Review
Interviews, etc.
TBR: To Be Read (Leslie Pietrzyk)
Q&A with Old Iron Press
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
Book Notes playlist at Largehearted Boy (Trip Through Your Wires)
The Next Best Book Club
Podcast with The Downtown Writers Jam