Fiction

BOOK

Byzantium: Stories (Graywolf, 2013)

**Winner of the 2013 Story Prize Spotlight Award and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Bakeless Fiction Prize, a Kansas City Star Best Book of the Year, Publisher’s Weekly and Chicago Tribune Best Summer Book, and Amazon Best Book of the Month (July 2013)

ANTHOLOGIES

“The Stomp,” Best American Short Stories 2022 “Distinguished Story”

“My Dear Master Liszt,” Pushcart Prize XLII: Best of the Small Presses

“The Traitor of Zion,” Astoria to Zion: Twenty-Six Stories of Risk and Abandon from Ecotone’s First Decade

“The Don’s Cinnamon,” Best American Mystery Stories 2013

“The Traitor of Zion,” Pushcart Prize 2012: Best of the Small Presses Special Mention

“Eraser,” New Stories from the South 2010: The Year’s Best and Storyville

SHORT STORIES

2022

“Isabella; or, The Coin Purse,” Ploughshares

“Three Omens of Federico da Montefeltro,” The Common

2021

“The Stomp,” Zoetrope: All-Story

2019

“The Barbary Captives,” Zoetrope: All-Story

“Van,” Harvard Review

2018

“The Clown of Rome,” Ecotone

“Anselmo,” Glimmer Train

2017

“Souvenir,” Virginia Quarterly Review

2016

“The Grave Bench,” Vice

“My Dear Master Liszt,” Oxford American

2015

“The Mountain, the Mist, the Baby,” Pallet

“Jessup,” Zoetrope: All-Story

2013

“East Texas Lumber,” Harper’s Magazine

“Tayopa,” Boston Review (read)

2012

“Amy,” The Literary Review (download)

“At Boquillas,” The American Scholar

“The Don’s Cinnamon,” Antioch Review

“Jean,” Tin House‘s Flash Friday (read)

“Jean” was also adapted for radio by My Audio Universe (listen)

“The Bandanese Curse,” Ninth Letter

2010

“The Traitor of Zion,” Ecotone

“The Moor,” Boston Review (read)

“Byzantium,” Electric Literature

“Boosters,” Gigantic

2009

“Tucumcari,” Fiction

“The Lime Soda Sea,” Michigan Quarterly Review (read)

“Eraser,” One Story (interview and excerpt here)

2008

“Borden’s Meat Biscuit,” Subtropics

2007

“The Dying Man,” Pindeldyboz (download the issue for free)

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