Writing

Upcoming

• Short story: “Brahms’s Lullaby” for Arts and Letters
• Book review: Comemadre by Roque Larraquy for New Letters
• Short story: “Here There is No Rainbow,” Emrys Journal.

2018

• Book review: Mephisto’s Waltz by Sergio Pitol (for Literal Magazine)
• Book review: Bang, by Daniel Peña (for Literal Magazine)
• Book Review: Plaza Requiem: Stories at the Edge of Ordinary Lives by Martha Bátiz (for Literal Magazine)
• Book review: The Runaway Species, Anthony Brandt and David Eagleman (for Literal Magazine)
• Book review: Empty Set by Veronica Gerber Bicecci (for Literal Magazine)
• Journalism Feature: On the Lincoln Arts Council (for L Magazine)
• Journalism Feature: On Public Art Lincoln (for L Magazine)

2017

• Journalism Feature: On Kiechel Fine Art, (for L Magazine)
• Profile of artist PJ Peters, L Magazine (print and online)
• Book review: The Tower of the Antilles, Achy Obejas (for Literal Magazine)
• Book review: Fever Dream, Samanta Schweblin (for Literal Magazine)
• Book review: Thus Bad Begins, Javier Marías, (for Literal Magazine)
• Book review: Camanchaca, Diego Zúñiga, (for The Colorado Review)
• Short story: “Gaddafi in Drag,” for Drunk Monkeys
• Journalism Feature: On Lux Center for the Arts’ Renovations (for L Magazine)
• Journalism Feature: On The Burkholder Project’s Alumni Show (for L Magazine)

2016

• Short story, “The Thing Speaks For Itself,” Anomaly Lit Issue 2, (Online, March 2016)
• Short story, “The Flower Car,” for Sediments Literary Arts Journal (Online, Feb. 2016)
• Journalism feature: on Julia Noyes, L Magazine (print and online, cover story)
• Book review: The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead (for The Millions)
• Book review: Seeing Red, Lina Meruane (for The Colorado Review)
• Book review: Bad Faith, Ted Wheeler (for Necessary Fiction)
• Short story, “Sunsets in Sunny Gardens,” for I-70 Review.
• Profile of artist Rodger Gerberding, L Magazine (print and online)
• Book review: Save Twilight, Julio Cortazar (for Literal Magazine)
• Book review: Him, Me, Muhammad Ali, Randa Jarrar (for The Colorado Review)

2015

• Arts feature: On the sculpture of Luke Huling for L Magazine (online and print).
• Book review: The Buried Giant, Kazuo Ishiguro, for the  Lincoln Journal-Star.
• Book review: The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan, for the  Lincoln Journal-Star.
• Short Story: “Stare Decisis,” Midwestern Gothic # 17 (print and ebook).
• Book review: Paris, Marcos Giralt Torrente, for Necessary Fiction.
• Arts feature: On the photography of Sam Swartz for L Magazine (online and print).
• Book review: Missoula, Jon Krakauer, for the Lincoln Journal-Star.
• Book review: The Book of Aron, Jim Shepard, for the Lincoln Journal-Star.
• Book review: Purity, Jonathan Franzen, for the Lincoln Journal-Star.
• Book review: Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, Salman Rushdie, for the Lincoln Journal-Star.
• Book review: Fates and Furies, Lauren Groff, for the Lincoln Journal-Star.
• Arts feature: On the paintings of Kenneth Heimbuch, for L Magazine (online and print).
• Short story, “Space Tears Can Hurt,” for Pulp Literature (print and ebook).
• Book review: Simone, Eduardo Lalo, for Necessary Fiction.

2014

• Book review: Dissident Gardens, Jonathan Lethem, for the Lincoln Journal-Star.
• Book review: The Life and Poetry of Ted Kooser, Mary K. Stillwell, for the Lincoln Journal-Star.
• Book review: The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri, for the Lincoln Journal-Star.
• Arts Feature: Do[n’t] Look Twice, on the photography of Roger Bruhn, for L Magazine (online and print).
• Book review: A Place in the Country, W.G. Sebald for The Millions.
• Judgment for the Tenth Tournament of Books – The Signature of All Things v. The Good Lord Bird.
• Arts Feature: On the art of Katrina Methot-Swanson, for L Magazine (online and print).
• Book review: All That Is, James Salter, for the Lincoln Journal-Star.
• Book review: The Bully Pulpit, Doris Kearns Goodwin, for the Lincoln Journal-Star.
• Arts Feature: On the nature art of Donna Schimonitz, for L Magazine (online and print).
• Profile: Of community leader John Leonard Harris for the Lincoln Journal-Star publication Pride of the Heartland.
• Book review: Dead Stars, Álvaro Bisama for Necessary Fiction.
• Arts Feature: On the landscapes of Patricia Scarborough, for L Magazine (online and print).
• Arts feature: on the art of Leora Platte, for L Magazine (online and print).
• Journalism: on the upcoming documentary,”Twisted Silence,” for L Magazine (online and print).
• Book review: Lucky Us, Amy Bloom, for the Lincoln Journal-Star.
• Book review: The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell, for the Lincoln Journal-Star.
• Book review: The Children Act, Ian McEwan, for the Lincoln Journal-Star.
• Arts feature: On the Great Plains Art Gallery and Melynda Seaton for L Magazine (online and print).
• Short story: “At the Turn,” Palooka Magazine (print, currently available online).
• Arts feature: On the murals of Spencer Pacheco for L Magazine (online and print).

2013

• Book review: What Happened to Sophie Wilder, Christopher Beha, print/online at the Lincoln Journal-Star.
• Book review: Haven’s Wake, Ladette Rudolph, print/online at the Lincoln Journal-Star.
• Profile of Daniel Proett for the May L Magazine (currently only in print).
• Book review: Ru, Kim Thúy online at Ploughshares.
• Book review: A Thousand Pardons, Jonathan Dee (for the Lincoln Journal-Star)
• Book review: My Beloved World, Sonia Sotomayor (for the Lincoln Journal-Star)
• Book review: A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra (for the Lincoln Journal-Star)
• Essay on Javier Marías and book review of The Infatuations for The Millions.
• Journalism: “Back to School Struggles,” print/online at L Magazine.
• Book review: Love by Drowning, by C.E. Poverman for the Lincoln Journal-Star.
• Journalism: “Doorways to Hope,” print/online at L Magazine.
• Book review: The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez for the Lincoln Journal-Star.
• Arts feature: Familiar Yet Fresh, on artist Joshua Norton at L Magazine.

2012

• Book review: The World Without You by Joshua Henkin for the Lincoln Journal-Star.
• Book Review: The Neruda Case by Roberto Ampuero, for Ploughshares.
• Essay: Rural Prisons: Hamlin Garland’s Stories of the American Midwest, at The Millions.
• Profile of local theater company Tada in L Magazine.
• Book Review: Fireproof by Alex Kava, print/online at the Lincoln Journal-Star.
• Book Review: A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers, print/online at the Lincoln Journal-Star.
• GTD: Is it Right for the Young Lawyer?, in the July/August issue of the American Bar Association’s The Young Lawyer.
• Profile of musician Elizabeth Grimes for the August L Magazine (currently only in print).
• Profile of writer Joy Castro for the October L Magazine (currently only in print).
• Journalism on the book Amy Signs at L Magazine (both in print and online).
• Book review: The Oath by Jeffrey Toobin for the Lincoln Journal-Star.
• Book review: Both Flesh and Not, David Foster Wallace, print/online at the Lincoln Journal-Star.
• Book review: Tenth of December, George Saunders, print/online at the Lincoln Journal-Star.

Photography

• Portrait of Tada owners in L Magazine.
• Portrait of Elizabeth Grimes for the August L Magazine (currently only in print).
• Portrait of artist Joshua Norton at L Magazine.
• Portrait of Daniel Proett for L Magazine (currently only in print)
• Portrait of artist of Katrina Methot-Swanson, for L Magazine (online and print).
• Portrait of Patricia Scarborough for L Magazine (online and print).