Anthologies

What My Father and I Don’t Talk About
“You Knew About That?”
A follow-up to the wildly successful What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About, also edited by Michele Filgate, this collection of essays from sixteen notable writers on the complex—and sometimes contentious—relationships we have with our fathers.
Featured in the new collection, my essay delves into a relationship with a man whose reality is so different from ours, the question becomes this: Can we ever connect at all?

The Poetry of Grief, Gratitude, and Reverence
“Accidental Practitioners” and “Flash Flood”
With poems by Rainer Maira Rilke, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, Seamus Heaney, Billy Collins, Ada Limón, and many more, this volume is a treasure. There’s an essay by the editor of the collection, John Brehm, on paying close attention and there are guided meditations for select poems.

Eat Joy: Stories and Comfort Food from 31 Celebrated Writers
“Accidental Practitioners” and “Flash Flood”
With poems by Rainer Maira Rilke, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, Seamus Heaney, Billy Collins, Ada Limón, and many more, this volume is a treasure. There’s an essay by the editor of the collection, John Brehm, on paying close attention and there are guided meditations for select poems.

Best American Essays 2017
“Haywire”
One short story and a number of my essays have been selected as Notable in The Best American… series, and so to have my work chosen by Leslie Jamison for inclusion in this year’s volume was absolutely thrilling. I’m so honored to have a piece in this collection. I’m still pinching myself.

The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction
“Breathless”
Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction publishes essays that are no longer than 750 words. Edited by Dinty Moore, it’s one of the longest-running, most popular, and highest quality online literary magazines, and I’m delighted to have a piece in their anthology featuring work from the first twenty years. Diane Seuss, Ander Monson, Roxane Gay, Brian Doyle, and Abigail Thomas also have pieces in this anthology.

The Pushcart Prize
“Pedal, Pedal, Pedal”
Edited by Bill Henderson, The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses anthology, published every year since 1976, is the most honored literary project in America - including Highest Honors from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The Pushcart Prize has been a labor of love and independent spirits since its founding. It is one of the last surviving literary co-ops from the 60's and 70's. Winner of the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement award from the National Book Critics Circle, the Poets & Writers/Barnes & Noble Writers For Writers recognition, and named with Pushcart Press as one of the most influential publications in the development of America publishing over the past century by Publishers Weekly, to be included is a career highlight, to be sure!