Body of Stars
Dutton/Penguin Random House

A bold and dazzling exploration of fate and female agency in a world very similar to our own—except that the markings on women’s bodies reveal the future.

Body of Stars (UK)
Hodder Studio/Hodder & Stoughton

Available in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand.

Select Fiction Publications

• “The Domesticated Satan: A Guide,” F(r)iction, Summer 2023.
• “Beauty Surge,” Slate Future Tense Fiction, August 2021.
• “Adult Education,” The Master’s Review, February 2020.
• “Sleepaway Camp for the Education of Young Girls,” The Southeast Review, Issue 37.2, Fall 2019.
• “The Abortion Club” (reprint), SFWP Quarterly Special Abortion Ban Protest Issue, Summer 2019.
• “Funeral Arrangements,” Green Hills Literary Lantern, Issue XXX, 2019.
• “Break Apart,” Cincinnati Review miCRo series, Fall 2017.
• “Museum of Menarche,” Ninth Letter, Fall/Winter 2016-7 (nominated for a Pushcart Prize).
• “The Necrophiliac’s Almanac,” Kenyon Review, Nov./Dec. 2016.
• “The Cannibal Queen of Karr County,” Chicago Tribune Printers Row. 2016.
• “Zoophilia in Four Acts,” Kenyon Review Online, Summer 2016.
• “The Virginity Auction,” Michigan Quarterly Review, Vol. 55 No. 2, Spring 2016.
• “Little Rattle Ghost,” Puerto del Sol, Spring 2016.
• “Taboo King,” Notre Dame Review, No. 41, Winter/Spring 2016.
• “Euthanasia Coaster,” Washington Square Review, No. 37, Spring 2016.
• “The Abortion Club,” Beloit Fiction Journal, Vol. 29, Spring 2016.
• “Lost Pets,” The South Carolina Review, Spring 2016.
• “Lost Pets” (reprint), Animals Among Us anthology (Ashland Creek Press), forthcoming 2016.
• “No Dog,” Portland Review, Vol. 61.2, Winter 2015.
• “A Girl Walks Into a Page,” SmokeLong Quarterly, September 2014.
• “Under the Linden Tree,” Fourteen Hills, Spring 2014.
• “Q&A at the Film Fest,” Tampa Review, Issue 47/48, Spring 2014.
• “Wedding Season,” Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment, Vol. 13.2.
• Living Arrangements, short story collection. BkMk Press / University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2011.
• “Living Arrangements,” American Literary Review, Spring 2011, Vol. 22, No. 1.
• “The Ballad Solemn of Lady Malena,” South Dakota Review, Summer 2010, Vol. 48 No. 2.
• “Live Model,” Crab Creek Review, 2010 Volume 2.

Select Essay/Nonfiction Publications

• “How Genetic Testing Helped Me Write My First Novel,” Moms Don’t Have Time to Write, May 2022.
• “BreyerFest or Bust,” Horse Girls: Recovering, Aspiring, and Devoted Writers Reclaim the Iconic Bond, edited by Halimah Marcus. Harper Perennial, August 2021.
• “The Art of Belief: On Talking to the Dead in Lily Dale,” Literary Hub, March 2021.
• “Labored Lying: On Language, Translation, and Saying Goodbye,” The Offing, October 2019.
• “How Amrieh Showed the Way,” Equus magazine, March 2016.
• “Questions Not Asked During My MFA Thesis Defense,” McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, September 2015.
• “In the Twelve Years Since You Died,” The Sun magazine, May 2014.
• Introduction, The Sophie Kerr Prize Anthology: 2011 & 2012, Washington College, Spring 2013.
• “Crossing the Border,” Rust Belt Chic: The Cleveland Anthology, September 2012.
• “Your Cat As Your Coworker,” Cat Fancy, September 2012.
• “5 Steps to a Solid Article Draft,” The Writer, March 2012.
• “Life (and Work) After Rejection,” The Writer, January 2012.
• “Six Surefire Ways to Get the Most Out of Writing Contests,” The Writer, August 2011.
• “Sketching a Story,” American Literary Review, February 2011.

Poets & Writers Features

• “Game Changers: Literary Magazines as the Gateway to Your Career,” Poets & Writers, January/February 2023.
• “Your Career on the Line: Writers and Agents Discuss ‘The Call,'” Poets & Writers,  July/August 2021.
• “Revising the Dream: Publishing a Debut Novel in an Uncertain World,” Poets & Writers, March/April 2021.
• “Fight for Your Rights: Understanding Literary Magazine Contracts,” Poets & Writers, Nov/Dec 2018.
• “Digging Deeper: A Practical Guide to Submitting Your Work,” Poets & Writers, Nov/Dec 2017.
• “Tell Me I’m Good: The Writer’s Quest for Reassurance,” Poets & Writers, May/June 2017.
• “To Fee or Not to Fee: A Writer’s Critique of Submission Fees,” Poets & Writers, Nov/Dec 2016.
• “From Corporate to Creative: Leaving a Career to Pursue an MFA,” Poets & Writers, September/October 2013.
• “The Price of Submission: The Evolution of Reading Fees and Their Cost to the Community,” Poets & Writers, November/December 2011.
• “The Dotted Line: Navigating Literary Magazine Contracts,” Poets & Writers, May/June 2011.
• “The Pressure of Young Promise,” Poets & Writers, November/December 2010.

Select Kenyon Review Blog Posts:

• “Five Years and 138,000 Words Later”
• “Letting Go of Publishing Anxiety: An Interview with Sarah Enni”
• “Inclining toward Obscurity: On Ferrante and Lost Friends”
• “Doubling the Rejection Goal: How I Received 215 Rejections in 2015”
• “When Stones Speak”
• “Losing It: On Hair, Trauma, and Regrowth”
• “The Books that Made Us: Weetzie Bat and Behind the Attic Wall”
• “Personality Theory: On Masks, Mothers, and Middle Names”
• “Books Fall Apart”
• “This Great Democracy: An Interview with Huda Al-Marashi”
• “Gentrification, the American Lie: An Interview with Stacie Williams”

Select Awards & Recognition

• Walter E. Dakin Fellow, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, 2023.
• Grantee, Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, 2022.
• Finalist, Ohioana Book Awards, for Body of Stars, 2022.
• Individual Excellence Award, Ohio Arts Council, 2022.
• Fiction Book of the Month, UK Booksellers Association, for Body of Stars. March 2021.
• Chicago Tribune Nelson Algren Literary Awards, runner-up, 2016.
• Devine Summer Fellowship, Bowling Green State University, 2015.
• National Gold Award, Short Story Fiction category, 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY Awards), for Living Arrangements.
• Silver Award, ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Awards, for Living Arrangements.
• 2011 Ohioana Walter Rumsey Marvin Grant.
• 2010 G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction, for Living Arrangements.
• Sophie Kerr Prize, Washington College, 2003. The nation’s largest undergraduate literary award.