Selected Publications
2024 “Returning to God’s Country: Louis Malle’s Encounter with the Midwest.” Middle West Review.
2023 “How Pete Seeger Turned Green.” Jacobin.
2023 “‘Claims to Be an Author’: Halldór Laxness’s American Years.” Resources for American Literary Studies.
2023 “Mapping Radical Poetic Geographies: The Sonnets of Frank X Walker and Maggie Anderson.” The American Sonnet. Edited by Dora Malech and Laura T. Smith. University of Iowa Press.
2022 “California Treason: Halldór Laxness and Upton Sinclair.” Comparative American Studies.
2022 “Smelter.” Slippery Elm. (Finalist)
2021 “Performing Dissent Pete Seeger and Paul Robeson Before HUAC.” Transatlantica. Revue d’études américaines. American Studies Journal.
2021 “Mapping Radical Poetic Geographies: The Sonnets of Frank X Walker and Maggie Anderson.” The Hopkins Review.
2020 “The Toppling of Þorfinnur: Vandalism as Dialogue and Direct Action.” U.S. Studies Online. Forum for New Writing. British Association for American Studies.
2020 “‘Go Left Young Writers!’: Aesthetic and Political Debates in the New Masses, 1926-1929.” Studia Neophilologica.
2020 “They Called Her a Methhead.” The Journal of Working-Class Studies.
2020 “Mining for Copper.” The Journal of Working-Class Studies.
2020 “Little Charlie on the River.” Northern Appalachia Review.
2020 “Moundsville Nocturne.” Northern Appalachia Review.
2020 “Crossing State Lines Again.” Northern Appalachia Review.
2020 “If I had a Hatchet.” Boulevard.
2019 “Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, and the Preservation and Performance of American Counter-History.” Contested Commemoration in U.S. History. Edited by Klara Stephanie Szlezák and Melissa M. Bender. Routledge.
2019 “Art Young.” American Political Humor: Masters of Satire and their Impact on U.S. Policy and Culture. ABC-CLO.
2019 “Appalachian Apophenia: The Psychogeography of Home.” Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy. Edited by Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll. West Virginia University Press.
2017 “Making Art as Resistance: The Psychiatric Patient as Subject.” Academic Quarter.
2016 “Framing the Personal Narrative: Composition and Documentary Film.” Best Practices in Assignment Design. Edited by Melissa Bender and Karma Waltonen. McFarland Press.
2015 “The Man Who Flew into Space.” Journal of the David Foster Wallace Conference.
2015 “Pete Seeger Reflects on Union Maid.” Essay and video. The Woody Guthrie Annual.
2015 “Our Mother of the Mud.” Feral Feminisms.
2014 “The Die-o-rama.” Goreyesque: A Tribute to Edward Gorey in Words and Images. The Department of Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago and Loyola University Chicago.
2014 “Recursive City.” Oberon.
2012 “Elegy for the Hills.” Enizagam. (Finalist, Pushcart Nomination)
2012 “Private Property.” Enizagam.
2012 “Crossing State Lines.” Enizagam.
2012 “Duplex in Three Parts.” Enizagam.
2009 “Structure.” Poetry East.
2009 “Need.” Poetry East.
2009 “Letter to the Man I Met on the Greyhound Bus.” Poetry East.
2008 “Shit in the Sink.” Eleven Eleven. (Pushcart Nomination)
2008 “Correspondence.” Eleven Eleven.
2008 “HUD House.” Eleven Eleven.
2008 “I heard you called me a bitch.” Portland Review.
2008 “After the DUI.” Portland Review.
2008 “Missing the Bus.” Red Wheelbarrow.