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interviews, ESSAYS, & conversations

“5 Things I Learned About Psychology That Every Fiction Writer Should Know.” Writer’s Digest (Sept. 10, 2023)

“Sit with the Echo: A Conversation with Ashley Wurzbacher” with Allie Rowbottom for Los Angeles Review of Books (Aug. 20, 2023)

“Writing Characters in a World After the Repeal of Roe v. Wade.” Literary Hub (Aug. 9, 2023)

“How to Care for a Human Girl is the Novel for the Post-Roe Era” with Emily Wortman-Wunder for Electric Literature (Aug. 8, 2023)

“The Best Books About Brainy Women Who Are Ambivalent About Pregnancy and Motherhood” for Shepherd (book recommendations)

“Coat Full of Pockets: A Story Collection Roundtable” with Dantiel W. Moniz, Kimberly King Parsons, Mary South, Xuan Juliana Wang, and Allie Rowbottom for The Rumpus (June 17, 2021)

“Stories on the Side” with Rebecca Rush for Comic’s Book Club (podcast; May 7, 2020)

“Complex Truth” with Lee Thomas for Fiction Writers Review (Oct. 17, 2019)

“Here are the National Book Foundation’s ‘5 Under 35’” with Madison Malone Kircher for Vulture (Sept. 23, 2019)

Short Stories

“Batshit” in The Sewanee Review 130.2 (2022)

“The Problem With You Is That” in The Florida Review 43.1 (2019)

“Happy Like This” in Michigan Quarterly Review 58.3 (2019)

“Fake Mermaid” in The Kenyon Review Online (May/June 2019)

“Ripped” in Colorado Review 46.1 (2019)

“Make Yourself at Home” in Gettysburg Review 29.1 (2016)

“Sickness and Health” in The Cincinnati Review 11.2 (2015)

“What It’s Like to Be Us” in Prairie Schooner 88.2 (2014)

“Blue Refrain” in Alaska Quarterly Review 31.1-2 (2014)

“Everything in the World” in Cold Mountain Review 41.2 (2013)

“What You See When You Look Close Enough” in The Southeast Review 30.1 (2012)

“Burden” in The Iowa Review 41.1 (2011)

“Foreign Girl” in Barnstorm (2010)