My writing has appeared in The New York Times, 7×7, Tribeza, the AV Club, AAA Texas Journey, McSweeney’s and elsewhere. I’m a recipient of a Wellstone Center residency and an alum of The Writers Hotel in NYC and the Tin House summer writers program. My stories have been finalists for the Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction and the StoryQuarterly prize.
My original half-hour TV comedy pilot, VELVET RUT, was a second rounder in the 2021 Sundance Episodic Lab, a PAGE Awards quarterfinalist, and a CineStory quarterfinalist. My family-friendly feature script, A PUPPY FOR CHRISTMAS, advanced to the second round of the 2020 Austin Film Festival screenplay competition.
A selection of pieces here:
HUMOR
McSweeney’s:
Middle School Party Games, Revised For Thirty-Five-Year-Olds
We Would Love To Consider You For This Job We Have Already Filled
You’re Invited To My Birthday Fundraiser — Also, My Husband Is On The Supreme Court
Job Opportunity: Join The Facebook Apologies Team
What Your Favorite Piece of Furniture Says About You
The Belladonna:
I’m a Man on Hinge and I Want You to Know This is Not My Child
Seven New York City Apartments You Can Actually Afford
Slackjaw:
My Life Is So Much Better Now That I Am Legally A Corporation
Ghost Reviews of Haunted Hotels
Points in Case: Our New Hiring Practices…
Jane Austen’s Wastebasket: 10 Places To Find the Man of Your Dreams In Your Dreams
FICTION
Pigeon Pages: LIKE EVERYONE ELSE *Art of Prose winner
Fiction Southeast: SHORT SHEETING
New Limestone Review: SEX TIPS FOR THE END OF THE WORLD
Frictions: WE WERE ADULTS
Litro UK: TAKE CARE
Burningword: SOMEONE WHO REALLY EXISTED
Pacifica Review: SHARK’S TOOTH
EDITORIAL
Texas Highways:
Welcome to Van Horn
Meet Three Artists Defining Art in El Paso Right Now
Tribeza Magazine:
Austin Staycations
Contemporary Vision
The Right Time For A Good Time
The XX Factor
Alcalde: Inside UT’s New EERC
New York Times: Beneath Quaint Exterior Beats State-of-Art Heart
INTERVIEWS
The Rumpus: Mini-Interview Project: Evan James
American Short Fiction: Putting Emotion into Language: A Conversation with Polly Rosenwaike
CLIENT WORK
The Garden Room
Chris Sanders Architecture