Books
The History of Living Forever: A Novel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Short Stories
“My Father’s House,” Arcturus, June 2020 (read online)
“Please Explain Me,” War, Literature & the Arts, no. 29, 2017 (read online)
“When a Woman Thinks That Her House is on Fire,” American Short Fiction, March 2015 (read online) (interview)
”Always Return What You Borrow,” Salt Hill, Spring 2014
“Repurpose,” Bellevue Literary Review, Fall 2012 (read online)
“The History of Living Forever,” One Story, no. 164, 2012 (excerpt and interview)
“The Suchomimus,” 580 Split, Issue 14, 2012
“You Are the Problem,” Sou’wester, vol. 30, no. 1, 2011
“Privacy,” CutBank, Issue 74, 2011
“Vacationland,” Sonora Review, Issue 60, 2011
“The Year of the Body,” Sou’wester, vol. 28, no. 1, 2010
“The Balloon Twister,” Redivider, Fall 2010
“Abnormal Excitement,” Fiction Weekly, Issue 22, 2009
Creative nonfiction
“A Stutter’s Guide to Writing Fiction,” Electric Literature, June 11, 2019 (read online)
“On the Fine Art of Researching for Fiction,” Literary Hub, June 3, 2019 (read online)
“Life Elixir Soup: History and Recipe,” Tin House, vol. 12, no. 3, 2011
“Failing at an Incredible Pace,” Third Coast, Issue 32, 2011
“Aviation Dentistry,” South Loop Review, Issue 4, 2011
“Stutter,” Blood and Thunder: Musings of the Art of Medicine, Issue 11, 2011
“Propofol,” Word Riot, 2009
Poetry
“Seizure, Surgery,” and “Words I Learned From Doctors,” Blood and Thunder: Musings on the Art of Medicine, Issue 9, 2009
“Induction,” Yale Journal for the Humanities in Medicine, 2009
