Short Works

Short Fiction

• “The Tooth Butcher,” in Horror Library Volume 7, Dark Moon Books (March 1, 2022)
• “Honey,” in The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2019. edited by Paula Guran, Prime Books (September 2019)
• “Run,” Flash Fiction Issue, The Chicago Reader (December 2018)
• “Honey,” in A World of Horror, an anthology of all-new dark and speculative fiction stories from authors all around the world, Dark Moon Books (2018)
• “Lament,” Gargoyle Magazine, 40th Anniversary, Issue 66 (2017) Read an excerpt here.
• “Seven,” KROnline, Kenyon Review (January 2016)
• “Shower Muse,” Scheherezade’s Bequest – Volume 1, Issue 2 — Something Rich and Strange: Tales from the Sea (Summer 2015)
• “Cask,” Schlock Magazine (March 2015)
• “Dried Flowers,” PERSEPHONE, January 2015 issue of Pantheon Magazine
• “Lipstick,” Gone Lawn 15 (Summer 2014)
• “As The Bright Scythe Swept Through the Waving Grass,” Crack the Spine (Issue 123, 2014)
• “Relics,” Jersey Devil Press, Issue 54 (May 2014)

Poetry

• “Ми тут (We are here),” Rust + Moth (Summer 2022)
• “Chicago blur: 1995 to 2021,” Spillway 29 (October 2021)
• “Midsummer Nocturne,” House Mountain Review (February 2021)
• “Boys on Bikes,” Strange Horizons (July 2017)
• “On Loving Bad Boys: A Villainelle,” Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling, Apex Books (December 2016)
• “Phantom Leaf Effect,” “Tree People,”and “I need to sleep on this poem,” Black Fox Literary Magazine (Summer 2015)
• “The Mermaid of Lincoln Park Lagoon,” Strange Horizons (November 2014)
• “Deepwater,” Mythic Delirium (August 2014)
• “Daughters of Melisseus,” Abyss & Apex (January 2014)
• “Singing the Dirge” and “For Collectors Not Children,” Fickle Muses (January 2014)
• “Live Feed,” Danse Macabre Du Jour (June 2013)
• “Pray,” The Pedestal Magazine (Ekphrastic Issue: April 2012)
• “AU Followed by a Number,” Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics No. 6.(2008)

Nonfiction

• “Witchy Wheys,” Culture Magazine, Autumn 2018
• “Five Super-Dads Who Helped Their Kids Become Heroes,” with Stephen H. Segal. QuirkBooks.com, June 17, 2016.
• “‘Happy Parents’ Day’  — A Transformative Way to Greet the Future,” with Stephen H. Segal. Tor.com, June 16, 2016.
• “Five Books With Families We’d Like to Live Alongside as Neighbors,” with Stephen H. Segal. Tor.com, May 12, 2016.
• “What Superman, Daenerys, Hillary, and Trump Learned from Their Parents,” with Stephen H. Segal. The Daily Beast, May 8, 2016.
• “To Shatter and Create: In Conversation with Matthew Kressel,” The Brooklyn Rail: Critical Perspectives on Arts, Politics, and Culture, December 9, 2015.
• “How a persecuted dance genius bound Ukraine to Philly,” Philadelphia Weekly, August 20, 2014
• “Erasure’s Angelic Ecstasy: The dance-pop icons celebrate a new album at the Borgata,” Atlantic City Weekly, September 25, 2014.
• “A Writer’s Apologia: On Loving a Writer,” Medium (2013)