Necessary Fiction review (2024)

Washington City Paper review (2023)

Interview on my work building the American Prison Newspapers archive at Reveal Digital / JSTOR appeared on the podcast Criminal episode #226. Featuring my buds Brian Scott, founder of NC-based reentry organization Ourjourney and writer Phillip Vance Smith. (2023)

“Noe Valley” cited as a notable in Pushcart Prize anthology (2023).

Scenic Overlook receives an Awst Press Book Prize. (2020)

More about “Please Repeat My Name” winner of the 2016 Danahy Fiction Prize. (2016)

Eileen Myles on “Novio, Novia”, winner, Montana Fiction Prize 2011, in which a woman finally gets her skinny ass to the dance floor:

“I first admired this story because it felt enormously readable. I felt teased forward as a reader. In its way it's very inward, this story, so though it is taking place in “the world” there was a peephole experience about it so that you felt like you were looking out from the inside in a very graphic way. There’s lots of details but they are never heavy. It’s almost murmured in a way. I knew enough about the narrator but mostly I knew about how the narrator felt about herself. Not so good but still registering things on an exact level like how a moment of successful dancing though quickly abandoned did indeed go to one’s hips in relation to the music and the man you were dancing with and everything else in the world and the writing delivered a sensation that life on almost more a micro level than a macro one is persistently shocking.”