A State of Wonder



“Liar’s Lullaby.” Tartts Three: Incisive Writing by Emerging Writers. Livingston Press, University of West Alabama. 2007.



“Blue Esther.” High Desert Journal. Winter 2019. Volume 29.
“Bitter Fruit.” Arkana. Text and audio. April 2019.
“To Thy Speed Add Wings.” descant. Vol. 53. (2014).
“The Inquisition.” Central Arkansas Broadside Project. (2013).
“Rumors of Greatness,” “The Hobo & the Gypsy Saint,” “She Runs Away, Not in Retreat,” and “Mocking.” Toad Suck Review. 3 (2013).
“True Believers.” The Oxford American. “Best of the South 2012” Issue (77).
“Mercy Comes Calling.” Southern Humanities Review 45:3 (2011).
“Woe to You, Destroyer.” Eclipse. 22 (2011).
“The Inquisition” & “No Heart, Two Hearts, Three.” West Branch Wired. Web. Summer 2011.
“Legacy.” The Rio Grande Review. 31 (2008).
“These Are My Arms.” Novel excerpt. The Literary Review. 51:2 (2008).
“Ghost Image.” Portland Review. 54:1 (2007).
“Aiken’s Grief.” Novel excerpt from Dirty. subTerrain (Canada). 46 (2007).
“Flesh Wounds.” Descant (Canada). 136 (2007).
“My Wife in the Bath,” “The Petrified Forest,” & “Trespassing.” PRISM International (Canada). 45.2 (2007).
“Parasites.” Phantasmagoria. 6.1 (2006).
“In Sickness As In Health.” Vanguard (Australia) 1 (2005).
“Odds on Loser,” “Lester’s Jesus Complex,” & “The Fog Song.” South Dakota Review. 42.1 (2004).
“The Mermaid.” Beloit Fiction Journal. 16 (2003).



“After Aunt Saucy’s.” Forthcoming. ONTHEBUS.
“The Christian Motorcyclist Kills My Dog,” “The All Wet Romance,” “Aloha Girls,” “Scissors, Paste, & the Dead,” &“Transparency & Desire.” The Exquisite Corpse Annual. 2 (2010).
“Aluminum Autumn,” “Heat Wave,” & “$24K in Unmarked Bills.” 580 Split. 10 (2008).
“Letter to You During This Our New Reincarnation,” “Specter,” & “The Third Flood.” Indiana Review. Spec. Highlight on Short Short Fiction and Prose Poem. 29.1 (2007).
“Dear Precious Queen of Our Hearts” & “Parking Lot Prophecy.” Nimrod International Journal. Spec. Issue Crossing Borders. 50.2 (2007).
“Neighbor.” Paddlefish. 1.1 (2007).
“Spread Your Wings.” Southeast Review. 25.1 (2006).



Review: R. T. Smith’s Sherburne: Stories. Southern Humanities Review (Winter 2014).
“Author Interview: Mark Richard” The Oxford American. 8/28/13.
“Stuck on Stuck on a Truck: A Facebook Comic Opera” in The Oxford American. Edited with Hendrix student Alli Dillard.
“The Garden of Underground Objects: Gene Hatfield’s Sculpture Garden, Conway, Arkansas.” The Oxford American. (photo essay) 11/2/13.
“Neurotic and Yet Attractive: The Mystique of James Dean, James Bridges, and Conway, Arkansas.” The Oxford American. 10/15/12
"Pirating at Ennis Cave." The Oxford American. 6/21/12.
“Stuck on Stuck On A Truck @ Toad Suck.” The Oxford American. website. 4/9/12.
Review: John Edgar Wideman’s Briefs: Stories for the Palm of the Mind. Permafrost. 34. (2012).
“Tyrone Jaeger Pushes Jesus’ Son.” Big Loves blog @ Memorious: A Journal of New Verse and Fiction. November 2011.Web.
“Monk in the Making.” Lincoln Journal Star. Front-page feature on ten-year-old Buddhist Monk, 7 May 2006.
“A Family’s Flight and Faith.” Lincoln Journal Star. Front-page feature on Vietnamese refugees, 26 Feb. 2006.