Essays and Fiction
“Glitter, Cowboys, and Tears: Orville Peck’s Queer Honky-tonk,” Oxford American, Winter 2022
“The Historic Kentucky Floods Were a Waking Nightmare,” Outside Magazine, Sept 2022
“Men Playing Men,” Oxford American, May 2022
“Rescued,” Cutleaf, December 2021
“Oprah’s Talk Show Made Me the Man I am Today,” Electric Literature, October 2020
“The Wolf,” Joyland, August 6, 2020
“Finding a More Tender, Queer Masculinity in ‘The Outsiders’” Catapult, June, 2020
“Being Trans Shouldn’t Exclude Me From Health Laws,” The Atlantic, June 20, 2020
“Rural Queer Fiction: A Reading List,” Literary Hub, May 21, 2020
“Playlist for The Prettiest Star,” Largehearted Boy, May 19, 2020
“Craft Capsule: Catalogues, Cetaceans, and Casey Kasem,” Poets & Writers, April 20, 2020
“Craft Capsule: Multiple Points of View,” Poets & Writers, April 13, 2020
“Craft Capsule: Cut For Time,” Poets & Writers, April 6, 2020
“Craft Capsule: Reading Backwards,” Poets & Writers, March 30, 2020
“Jess,” Oxford American, March 26, 2020
“Repairs,” Green Mountains Review, Vol. 31, 2020
“This Be Madness,” Bellevue Literary Review, Issue 3: Dis/Placement, Fall 2018
“Early In My Transition, Two Teenagers Helped Me Embrace My Identity,” BuzzFeed, April 22, 2015
“Wildlife,” Guernica, The Boundaries of Gender Special Issue, March 2015
“Johnson City,” Appalachian Heritage, Spring 2014
“Photograph, 2007,” Still 9, Summer 2012
My Interviews with Writers
Beth Macy on writing Dopesick and Raising Lazarus in Oxford American, September 2022
Beth Macy and Silas House talk with me about writing rural stories, Garden & Gun, August 2022
Silas House on his novel Southernmost in Lambda Literary Review, June 2018
Chelsey Johnson on her new novel Stray City in Lambda Literary Review, March, 2018
Megan Kruse on her debut Come Home To Me in The Rumpus, August 21, 2015
Anthologies
Anthology of LGBTQ Literature from Appalachia, Eds. Jeff Mann and Julia Watts (Vandalia Press/West Virginia University Press, 2019)
“Bittersweet: On Transitioning and Finding Home,” Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean: Meditations on the Forbidden from Contemporary Appalachia, Eds. Adrian Blevins and Karen McElmurray (Ohio University Press, 2015)
Blue, Too: More Writing By (For or About) Working-Class Queers, Ed. Wendell Ricketts (FourCats Press, 2014)
“Saving,” The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard, Eds. Tom Leger and Riley MacLeod, (Topside Press, 2012)
“Letter to Self,” The Letter Q: Queer Writers’ Notes to Their Younger Selves, Ed. Sarah Moon (Arthur A. Levine Books, 2012)