SHORT STORIES

• “The Devil’s Bay,” Fiddleblack, #8 (February 2013)
• “Issaqueena,” Still, #10 (Fall 2012) — Fiction Contest Winner
• “Why We Shop at Wal-Mart at Midnight,” Drafthorse, Summer 2012
• “Then Come Home to Settle,” PANK, December 2011
• “Carolina Mill, 1932,” The Sun, June 2011
• “A Storybook Home,” The Normal School, #6 (Spring 2011)
• “The Death of Jacob Delaney,” South Dakota Review, 42.2 (Summer 2010)
• “Lovesick Blues,” South Carolina Review, 42.1 (Fall 2009)
• “Renovation,” Freight Stories, No. 3 (Sept. 2008)

POETRY

• “Yellow Christ, After a Painting by Gauguin,” Makeout Creek, #3
• “Small Divagation,” Makeout Creek, #2

BOOK REVIEWS

• Jami Attenberg’s The Middlesteins, Richmond Times-Dispatch, May 19, 2013
• Ron Rash’s Nothing Gold Can Stay, Richmond Times-Dispatch, March 31, 2013
• Casey Clabough’s Confederado, Richmond Times-Dispatch, March 3, 2013
• Alice Munro’s Dear Life, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Nov. 21, 2012
• Dennis Lehane’s Live by Night, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Oct. 21, 2012
• Patricia Henley’s Other Heartbreaks, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Oct. 23, 2011
• Donald Ray Pollock’s The Devil All the Time, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Aug. 28, 2011
• Tom Franklin’s Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Dec. 6, 2010
• Ron Rash’s Burning Bright, Richmond Times-Dispatch, April 18, 2010
• Holly Goddard Jones’s Girl Trouble, Third Coast, Spring 2010
• Denis Johnson’s Tree of Smoke, Sycamore Review, 20.2
• Charles Baxter’s Beyond Plot: The Art of Subtext, Sycamore Review, 20.1
• Philip Roth’s Everyman, Sycamore Review, 19.1
• Ron Rash’s Saints at the River, Sycamore Review, 18.1

OTHER NONFICTION

• “‘I Know Nothing’: On politics, inspiration, and art.” Richmond Times-Dispatch, July 15, 2012.
• “Southern Craftsman Produced Powerful, Poetic Voice” (An appreciation for William Gay). Richmond Times-Dispatch, March 18, 2012.
• “Student Loans: What a Drag.” Richmond Times-Dispatch, Nov. 20, 2011.
• “The Individual: Engaged but Engulfed?” (The 50th anniversary of Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer.) Richmond Times-Dispatch, May 15, 2011.
• “You Can Count on Fairytales: An Interview with Kate Bernheimer,” co-interviewed with Benjamin Kolp, Sycamore Review, 20.1. Anthologized in Telling Stories, Talking Craft, which was edited by Chris Arnold and Anthony Cook.