Publications

My stories, essays, interviews, and criticism have appeared or are forthcoming in New South, The Millions, The Forge, Fiction Writers Review, Sierra Nevada Review, and others.

Interviews

”It’s Not a Zero-Sum Game”

An interview with author Rebecca Makkai:

There are some who make writing seem like some sort of magic—they’d have you believe the stories just appear and there’s no telling where they came from. Then there are writers like Rebecca Makkai, who are more like engineers: writers who deeply understand the physics of a story, who know how to break it all down and put it back together and make it even better in the process.

”Living Up to the Dream”

An interview with author Ben Percy:

A few years ago, as I slowly prepared to enter the fray of MFA program applications and literary magazine submissions, I spent a great deal of time exploring contemporary short stories. I read old stalwarts like Raymond Carver, Tobias Wolff, and Alice Munro, and great newer writers like Jodi Angel, Karen Russell, and others. But throughout my search, another name kept popping up: Benjamin Percy.

Fiction

“Between the Bridge and the River”

Available in North by Northeast 2, New Short Fiction by Maine Writers, published by Littoral Books.

“Coyotes”

They heard coyotes often and, when the corn and tobacco were low enough, could sometimes see them at dusk lurking around the tree line. The past few days, Daddy had seen tracks around the door of the barn and scratches where they’d tried to dig their way in through the rock-hard dirt.

Criticism

Bull Mountain by Brian Panowich

It’s been said that our first taste of mythology is our family history. Brian Panowich’s debut novel, Bull Mountain, portrays a family poisoned by their own mythology. The Burroughs clan has run Bull Mountain, Georgia, for generations, spreading their outlaw empire from moonshine to marijuana to meth, an uninterrupted flow of crime and power until one son, Clayton, abandons the family and becomes a county sheriff, pitting brother against brother and the present against the past.