OTHER WRITING

Chapbooks, Short Stories, Essays, Reviews

Chapbooks

Kill Marguerite. Single-story chapbook. Another New Calligraphy, May 2009. 64 pages.

“Wild Animals,” Gulf Coast, March 2022.
“Gut Feelings, or Guided Visualizations for Achieving Integration,” Journal of the Center for Sustainable Practices in the Arts, 2021.
“Patrick Gets Inspired,” The Evergreen Review, July 2020.
“Take Us to Your LDR,” Epiphany, Spring 2020. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
“The Strands,” Foglifter, Fall 2018. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
“ASMR Script for A Happier You,” Yes Femmes, Spring 2017.
“Germ Camp,” Fence, Other Worlds Portfolio, Winter 2016.
“AB 469: A Po(r)ny-ography in Three Parts,” SPECS, Unicorn Issue, April 2016.
“Earl and Ed,” Psychopomp, Reprints Issue, March 2016.
“Storm Room, or Participatory Theater with Moms,” The Account, November 2014. Nominated for a 2015 Best of the Net Award.
“The Girl with the Expectorating Orifices,” LIT 25, Spring 2014: 97-106.

“Swamp Cycle,” Artifice Magazine 5, June 2013: 78-83.
“Traumarama,” Projecttile, August 2013.
“Floaters,” in collaboration with Leeyanne Moore, Red Lightbulbs 9, November 2012.
“Earl & Ed,” Monsters & Dust 3: The Flowers Issue, November 2012: 42-50.
“Incest Dream, or Slam Poem for E,” PANK 6, January 2012: 178-180.
“Dionysus,” PANK: The Queer Issue, September 2011.

“The Girl with the Expectorating Orifices (excerpt),” Everyday Genius, July 2010.

“Alma, Age Twelve: Assistant Babysitter & Future Failed Suicide,” in collaboration with Leeyanne Moore, Western Humanities Review 64.2, Summer 2010: 20-34.

“She Is Hovering,” in collaboration with Davis Schneiderman, Mad Hatters Review, Spring 2010.

“Tomato Heart,” The Wild, Vol. 1, Fall 2009: 79-82. Interpreted and performed as movement piece by Cathy Nicoli at Amherst College, 2007.
“July 14: Bastille Day,” in collaboration with Andrew Farkas, Sidebrow, October 2009.
“Yuri-G,” DIAGRAM 7.3, June 2007. Finalist in DIAGRAM’s 2007 Innovative Fiction Contest. Winner of Literary Writers Network 2007 Prose Show Contest.
“Circe,” Pocket Myths 4: The Odyssey, November 2006: 40-45.

“Name Dropping #17: On Dog Sitting for Alice Crock” (short story), in Clowns, edited by Michelle Tea, Dopamine Press, forthcoming 2026.
"Take Us to Your LDR" in My Last White Boyfriend and Other Epiphanies: 20 Greatest Prose Hits of Epiphany Magazine.
“Slug,” Great Jones Street fiction app, 2017.
“My Father and I Were Bent Groundward,” in Thirty Under Thirty: An Anthology of Innovative Fiction by Younger Writers, edited by Blake Butler and Lily Hoang, Starcherone Press, July 2011.
“Slug,” in The &NOW Awards: The Best Innovative Writing, edited by Robert Archambeau, Davis Schneiderman, and Steve Tomasula, Lake Forest College Press, October 2009.

“Slug,” in Fist of the Spider Woman: Tales of Fear and Queer Desire, edited by Amber Dawn, Arsenal Pulp Press, April 2009.

“Twin-speak,” in Pocket Stars, edited by Andrea Lawlor, Penguin Random House, forthcoming.
“The Many Names of Barbara Grier: On Naiad Press, Lesbian Publishing, and Pseudonyms,” in Weird Sister, edited by Marisa Crawford, Feminist Press, 2024.
“Overlooked No More: Lou Sullivan, 1951-1991.” Overlooked (series of belated obituaries), New York Times, June 2023.
“Night Milk,” Michigan Quarterly Review, 2023.
“I Kick the Baby and Keep the Girl,” The Evergreen Review, December 2021.
“No Boys Allowed: On Girl Groups, Boyfriends, and Kristy’s Great Anxiety,” in We Are the Baby-Sitters Club, edited by Marisa Crawford and Megan Milks, Chicago Review Press, July 2021.
“Mystery of the Maze,” Swamp Ape Review, March 2020.
“Becoming Olivia Newton Dawn: An Impression,” unbag, October 2018.
“Book Club Made Me Gay,” JSTOR Daily, June 2017.
“Name Tags: Reboot,” Entropy, April 2017.
Excerpts from Proxies (crossgenre manuscript), Grimoire, July 2016.
“I Don’t Want to Need You,” Cream City Review 39.1, Genrequeer Portfolio, Spring/Summer 2015.
“Name Tags,” Land Line Quarterly, Issue 1, February 2012.

Many reviews published in 4Columns -- see archive here.
“Hoods and Hoodwinkery,” critical essay on Philip Guston: Resilience exhibition at Hauser & Wirth LA, X-TRA Magazine, Summer 2020.
“Out of the Clouds,” longform profile of the poet Bruce Boone, Poetry Foundation, April 2020.
“Dodie Bellamy’s Crude Genius” (longform profile), Dodie Bellamy Is On Our Mind, CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Arts/Semiotext(e), Fall 2019.
“In Search of Duende: The Fits,” Fanzine, November 2016.
“Itchy Occupations,” New Theory, June 2016.
“Notes Towards an Essay on Bad Laughter,” The Spectacle, April/May 2016.
“Chrysalis: Matter Machine,” Platforms exhibition catalog, December 2015.
“Open Channels: Fan Fiction as Affective Technology.” The New Inquiry, June 2015.
“‘You Just Want to Shake Her’: On Green Girl and Irritation as Provocation.” Los Angeles Review of Books, June 2014. Winner of an Electric Lit Critical Hit Award, August 2014.
“‘Is this for real? Is that a stupid question?’: A Review of Dennis Cooper’s The Sluts,” electronic book review, 23 January 2012.

Conversation with Paul DD Smith, published in support of his exhibition The Chiral Gate, 1646 Experimental Art Space, January 2023.
“Funny, How?” roundtable on comedy and fiction writing with Torrey Peters, Melissa Broder, and Brontez Purnell, Bookforum, November 2021.
“What to Read When in Search of Bodies,” The Rumpus, September 2021.
“Structural Play: 8 Books that Challenge Genre and Style,” LitHub, September 2021.
“Layered Losses,” Interview with A. Madsen Minax,” BOMB, June 2021.
“Hoods and Hoodwinkery,” critical essay on Philip Guston: Resilience exhibition at Hauser & Wirth LA, X-TRA Magazine, Summer 2020.
“Out of the Clouds,” longform profile of the poet Bruce Boone, Poetry Foundation, April 2020.
“Dodie Bellamy’s Crude Genius” (longform profile), Dodie Bellamy Is On Our Mind, CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Arts/Semiotext(e), Fall 2019.
“In Search of Duende: The Fits,” Fanzine, November 2016.
“Open Channels: Fan Fiction as Affective Technology.” The New Inquiry, June 2015.
“‘You Just Want to Shake Her’: On Green Girl and Irritation as Provocation.” Los Angeles Review of Books, June 2014. Winner of an Electric Lit Critical Hit Award, August 2014.
“‘Is this for real? Is that a stupid question?’: A Review of Dennis Cooper’s The Sluts,” electronic book review, 23 January 2012.