Works Books PLEASE DON’T TOUCH THE BODYa debut collection of eleven stories about loneliness, sex, and the search for meaning in the face of pain (forthcoming from Bloomsbury in 2026) ENCOUNTER a queer love story about a Neanderthal woman falling in love with an exiled human woman in a frozen, unstable world (forthcoming from Bloomsbury) Stories “New Mercies,” The Kenyon Review, 2024 “The Only Child,” Ploughshares, 2024 “Consider the Diver,” Epiphany, 2023 “Thursdays for Haru,” The Sun, 2023 Interviews “The Right to Be a Selfish Woman: A Conversation with Rita Chang-Eppig,” World Literature Today, 2023 “On Sex, Soul Loneliness, and Walking toward Terror: A Conversation with R. O. Kwon,” World Literature Today, 2023 “Writing Without Permission: A Conversation with Ishmael Reed,” World Literature Today, 2022 “I Write about People Whose Lives are on Fire: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros,” World Literature Today, 2022 Podcast Appearances Guest on Short Story Today, Episode 57, 2023 Guest host on Short Story Today, Episode 72, 2023
