ESSAYS and LONGFORM JOURNALISM
“The Safe Space that Became a Viral Nightmare”
New York Times Magazine, September 2022
READ IT HERE
“Rooting”
The Arkansas International, Fall 2021
“The Native Scholar Who Wasn’t”
New York Times Magazine, May 2021
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“The Accusation”
New York Times Magazine, March 2020
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“Writers Recommend”
Poets & Writers, Summer 2018
“The Genre of Resistance”
Poets & Writers, September 2018
“Everything Went Wild”
Oxford American, Summer 2018
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“Jack Kerouac, Ghost Father”
LitHub, Spring 2018
“Omnitrix”
Gettysburg Review, Fall 2017
“We Are Stronger”
Oxford American, June 2016
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“Our Town”
Texas Monthly, May 2016
“The Granola Lesbian Mother’s Guide to Having a Magical Day at Disney with Your Two and a Half Year Old”
Burrow Press Review, May 2016
Winner of the 2016 Best of the Net Prize
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“Advise me”
Iowa Review, Spring 2016
“A Moment’s Pause” (video essay)
TriQuarterly, Winter 2016
“Wolf Biter”
The Normal School, Fall 2015
“A Ballad for You”
StorySouth, Fall 2015
A Notable essay in the 2016 Best American Essays
“A Homoparental Family”
Guernica, Summer 2015
“My Murderer’s Futon”
The Pinch, Spring 2015
Winner of the 2014 Creative Nonfiction Prize
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“For the Sake of a Name”
Colorado Review, Winter 2014
“How to Unmarry Your Wife”
The Morning News, July 2014
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“God Bless Bonnie and Clyde”
Fourth Genre, Spring 2012
POETRY
“The Natural Order”
Puerto del Sol, December 2017
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“Horoscope for a Possible Future Gemini”
Sonora Review, Spring 2017
“Falling” and “The Variations of Terror”
decomP, Spring 2017
“Dialogue with Translation”
RHINO, Spring 2017
“Adding One” and “Catharsis with Mildred Pierce”
AGNI, Spring 2016
FICTION
“The Spanish Crisis”
Greensboro Review, Fall 2020
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“Buddy Holly is Dead”
Ghost Parachute, July 2018
“The Card Game”
Hobart, Fall 2017
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“Perspective”
NanoFiction, Spring 2016
“Closure”
Juked, Fall 2015
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TRANSLATION
Cordoba Skies
Ploughshares Solos, Spring 2016
Translation of novella by Federico Falco
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“Elephants”
The Kenyon Review Online, Spring 2014
Translation of story by Federico Falco
READ IT HERE
“The Adventures of Mrs. Ema”
The Massachusetts Review, Winter 2013
Translation of story by Federico Falco
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Loved ‘My murderer’s Futon’ – so well written!
Thanks, Jo!
Sarah – I loved ‘A Ballad for You’ and look forward to reading the rest of your personal essays. I will be following your blog (mine’s on WordPress too) – encouraged with your recitation of rejections, a reminder that they’re part of the process & without then we wouldn’t get the acceptances either.
Thanks, Alice. I appreciate you taking the time.
Wow. Just read The Accusations after linking to it from today’s NY Times essay “When a safe space becomes a viral nightmare”. Happy to have discovered your writing and looking forward to more of it.