The Face of Baseball, 2015,  WhiskeyPaper Press.

“Hemingway Goes on Book Tour,” in Playing Authors Anthology, from Old Iron Press

“Brown Dog and Gee,”  Tin House Open Bar

“The Stories Hadley Hemingway Lost,” in Molotov Cocktail Flash Contest
Series

“Seeds,” in Split Lip Magazine

“How to Identify Birds in the Wild,” in Among Animals, Volume 2, from Ashland Creek Press.

“George Clooney, Do You Miss Augusta?” in Paper Darts

“The Face of Major League Baseball,” in CALYX Journal, Fall/Winter 2015.

“The kind of story you tell,” in Midwestern Gothic, Summer 2015.

“The River Fell,” in WhiskeyPaper, June 2015.

“Your Life in Other Places,” in Wyvern Lit, February 2015.

“Weeds,” in Atlas Review, January 2015.

“A love letter to winter, at the beginning,” in Lime Hawk Literary Arts, January 2015.

“Light,” in Bluestem Magazine, December 2014.

“How to identify birds in the wild,” in Luna Luna Magazine, October 2014

“Fifth-month flowers experienced” a Prints Response Project in Pea River Journal, October 2014

“Far from Home,” in Bartleby Snopes.

“The Hit,” in Stymie Magazine.

“Natural Enemy,” in Apeiron Review.

“The Window Box Fan”  in WhiskeyPaper

“The Last Bear in Indiana,” 3rd place in Dialogue-Only Contest at Bartleby Snopes.

“Hell’s Masseuse,” in 50-Word Stories.

“The Rosebush in the Corn,”  in The Legendary

“The Quality of Booze,” in The Molotov Cocktail

“The Last of the Sperm,” in Boston Literary Magazine.

“Soil,” in Hamilton Stone Review

“The Bar Room Door” in Cease, Cows

“Welcome”  in Pea River Journal

“Opinion: It’s time to rethink what we know about gender and athletic performance,” in CNN Opinion, July 2023.

“The Case of Transgender Athletes,” in Newsweek, February 2021.

“Two Women on a Stage,” in StorySouth, September 2017.

“Hidden Figures and Feud: Pop Culture Tales of Occupational Segregation,”
at The Society Pages, May 2017.

“How to Preserve Food for the Winter,” in NomFiction Anthology, at Big Truths, June 2015.

“Today’s Lesson: Both You and Morgan Freeman Are Wrong About Racism” at Gawker.

“Talk to Me: Depression, Self-Talk, and the Power of Affirmations,” Bezzy Depression. April 2022.

“On Stepparenting and Being and Outsider-Within,” Family Story Project, December 2020.

“Madison, Indiana, Wants to Be the Next ‘Music City’,” Belt Magazine, February 2020.

“Why it helps to think about meditation as strength training for your brain,” Kindred Spirit Magazine, January 2020.

“From ‘good enough’ to amazing: how to become a better editor of your own work,” forthcoming in Small Print Magazine

How to Submit: Becky Tuch, at Sundog Lit blog

How to Submit: Brian Oliu, at Sundog Lit blog

How to Submit: Leesa Cross-Smith, at Sundog Lit blog.

How to Submit: Matthew Kabik, at Sundog Lit blog.

“Seven  Tips for Surviving NaNoWriMo from Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” in Small Print Magazine.

Hoosiers, plazas and memory palaces: three reasons why place matters. forthcoming in Little Indiana Quarterly Magazine. Fall 2013.

I became a parent by straightening a bathroom towel. Offbeat Families. January 30, 2013.

A Very Hoosier Holiday: Christmas Shopping in Madison, Indiana. Little Indiana. Dec. 11, 2012.

“The best books about women who just won’t quit” at Shepherd

“The Year in Books: 2019” at The Ryder Magazine, February 2020

“The Year in Books: 2015” at The Ryder Magazine, February 2016.

“The Year in Books: 2014,” at The Ryder Magazine, February 2015.

Book review, Every Kiss a War, by Leesa Cross-Smith, at Buffalo Almanack

Book review, Liliane’s Balcony, a novella of Falling Water, by Kelcey Parker, at Sundog Lit.

Literary magazine review, “Don’t look away: journal of Witness explores theme of redemption,” at The Review Review.

“Berdache,” entry in Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies.

Chapter on Gender Inequality in Investigating Social Problems. from SAGE Press.

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