Fiction

Publications

• Boomtown in Fusion Fragment (2024)

• South of Houston in Barrelhouse Magazine (2024)

• Accessory After the Fact in Ofic Magazine (2023)

• The Angel House in Tales to Terrify (2023)

  • transcript of audio available on Medium

• Lycia in the Colorado Review (2021)

  • reprinted in The Best American Mystery & Suspense 2022

• Mortality Signal in Expat Lit (2021)

  • reprinted in Luminescent Machinations (2023)

• you fool, you wanderer in Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World That Wouldn’t Die (2020)

• The Wedding After the Bomb in Catapult (2020)

  • reprinted in We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction of 2020 (2021)

• 2004 to 2014 in Nat. Brut (2019)

• The Ghost on Platte River Access Road in Catapult (2019)

• The West and Everything Above - chapbook - from Neon Hemlock (2019)

• You Can’t Grow Corn on The Moon in Vulture Bones (2018)

  • reprinted in Prismatica (2021)

  • hosted for free on Medium

• Schwaberow, Ohio in Meanwhile Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers (2017)

  • reprinted in Il mio genere è top secret from Future Fiction (Italy) - translated by Martina del Romano (2022)

• Outside New Knoxville in Midwest Gothic Literary Magazine (2014)

• Mr. Alexander Goes and Returns in NPR's Three Minute Fiction (2011)
  

Accolades and Awards

• Locus Award

  • winner, in We’re Here, The Best Queer Speculative Fiction of 2020 - 2022

• Henry Matthew Weidner Creative Writing Award (University of Kansas)

  • First Place (2020-2023)

• James E. Gunn Award for Science Fiction Writing (University of Kansas)

  • Recipient (2020-2023)

• Participant - Tin House Summer Workshop - 2021

• The DC Center OutWrite Chapbook Competition

  • Winner - 2019

  • Finalist - 2020, 2023

• Included in Barnes&Noble’s Sci-Fi and Fantasy Short Fiction Roundup - 2018

• American Library Association's Stonewall Book Awards, Barbara Gittings Literature Award (in Meanwhile Elsewhere) - 2018

• Lambda Literary Award Finalist

  • in Meanwhile Elsewhere - 2018

  • in Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World That Wouldn’t Die - 2021

• Queer|Arts|Mentorship Literature Fellow - 2015-2016

• Larry Neal Writers' Award

  • Winner - 2013

  • Finalist

    • 2016

    • 2017