Fiction And Nonfiction
Fiction/Poetry
"That’s the Way of the World", Cosmonauts Avenue
"Be Like the Baby, Be Like the Man", Submission Reading Series chapbook
"Planet Grim: Stories (7.13 Books)",
"Angel Dust", The Gravity of the Thing
"The Passenger", VoiceCatcher
"Prelude to a Kiss", Watershed Review
"My Martian Laundrette", Propeller
"The Scorpion", Irreverent Fish
"The Shrew of DC", Word Riot
"The Courtship of Eddie’s Father", Portland Review, vol. 52, no. 3
Nonfiction: Essays, Interviews, Reviews
"What Do I Get? (A Primer on Post-Adoption Funk)", Mutha
"MILK IT: Alex Behr on Breastfeeding as an Adoptive Mom", Mutha
"Dead Souls", Manifest-Station
"Interviews with Rob Spillman and Lee Ranaldo", Boneshaker: A Bicycling Almanac; Ranaldo also in “Best of” compilation
"Napalm Picnic", Manifest-Station
"Raising Yu Zheng / Raising Eli", Nailed
"Heartbreak with Humor", Margaret Malone on her New Story Collection, People Like You, Propeller
"Review of Small Backs of Children:", In Lidia Yuknavitch’s New Novel, Women Forge Art Out of Loss, Bitch
"Crime Stories with People We Know and Recognize:", Laura Lippman Talks about Baltimore, Tess Monaghan, and Points of View, Propeller
"Art and Social Practice:", Laura Lippman Talks about Baltimore, Tess Monaghan, and Points of View, Propeller
"Long Black Road:", Lee Ranaldo Talks Tennis, Travel, and Last Night on Earth, Propeller
"Cartoonist Chris Ware on Outsider Art, Reading Aloud and the Common Core", Salon
"Mortified script", (script based on junior high diary entries); performed in Portland, San Francisco, Washington, DC, New York City, and Los Angeles, 2009–11; 2015, Visit Site
"Where Have All the Good Times Gone?", Review of Building Stories by Chris Ware, Propeller
"True Confessions: Beth Lisick on Storytelling and Yokohama Threeway and Other Small Shames", (Parts 1 and 2), Propeller
"Alexander McQueen:Savage Beauty", Propeller
"Crawdad Death Adventures", Propeller
"The RumpusInterview with Phil Milstein", The Rumpus
"A Red Man and White Lashes: The World of Christine Shields", Propeller
"Pet Sounds", Freerange Nonfiction
"On The Dream World of Dion McGregor", Tin House, reprinted in Utne Reader
"Daniel Clowes: The Death-Ray Retribution", Propeller
"Interview with Aimee Bender and Amy Cutler:", “Talking Tiger Fur” and “Horse Songsand Love Medicine” (music and novel pairing), Propeller 3.1
"Belongings", Lumina
"Essay and photo diptychs to Love Letter, Love Letter", We Are Open Pop Up Gallery, Middlesbrough, U.K.
"Jack Stevenson: A Dirty Old Man in Action", The Rumpus (reprinted from Bananafish)
"Diary excerpts and commentary to Hidden World of Girls", NPR website
"Interview with author Tom Bissell: “Hope You Die the Best", Evil Monito
"Looking Back Mortified: Why Would We Betray Our Younger Self?", Propeller 2.1
"If Found, Please Contact: Motherfucker", 20 Minutes in Portland, ed. Chris Cottrell, Portland Review special issue
"Interview about Syrian musician Omar Souleyman: “This Is Your Brain on Omar", Evil Monito
"Mini-interviews series", (interviews with a death-row attorney, a woman raised on a hippie commune, a parole officer, a musician with food obsessions, a mixed-martial arts fighter), The Rumpus
"Land of Milk and Honey: An Adopted Child Longs for—and Creates—His Own Memories", Oregon Humanities