Select Publications
Short Stories
Colorado The Rialto Books Review | print (March 2023) No Shoes Hypertext Magazine | print & online (Spring 2023) When the Water Comes The Tusculum Review | Winner, 2021 Fiction Prize | print (2021) Last Stop with Louis Armstrong Jerry Jazz Musician | Winner, 45th Short Fiction Contest | print (2017) Chicken Cicada Magazine | print (2012) |
Essays
AI: Art Stripped of Artistry (Editor's Letter) MASKS Literary Magazine | online and print (October 2023) Novel or Stories? Author Kate Wisel on the Powerful Paradox of Linked Collections PopMatters | online (Apr. 12, 2022) The Likability of Unlikability in Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge PopMatters | online (May 11, 2021) The Martian Chronicles: A Tale of Two Apocalypses PopMatters | online (Mar. 22, 2021) Revenge and (Bloody) Feminism: Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman with a Mossberg 590 "The Justice Issue" | Bright Wall/Dark Room | online (Oct. 2020) |
Articles
Cabaret community celebrates the return of a live audience The Columbia Chronicle | online (October 2022) An 'empathetic heartbeat': The collaborative process in telling others' life stories The Columbia Chronicle | online (October 2022) Columbia authors talk South Side representation The Columbia Chronicle | online (September 2022) A Sense of Adventure: Longines Spirit Zulu Time Up Front | Watches International | print (June 2022) Blast from the Past: Behind the Palms The Guide | Palm Beach Magazine | print (April 2022) South Side Stray Strut: What's up with the cats of Pilsen? Feature | Newcity Magazine (print & online (September 2019) |
Awards | Residencies | Fellowships
Sterling Watson Fellowship | Writers in Paradise | 2024 Albert P. Weisman Award | Albert P. Weisman Foundation | 2022 & 2023 FAW Foundation Award | Friends of American Writers Foundation| 2021-2022 Franz Kafka Fellowship | Summer Writers Program| Prague School of Communication | 2021 The Tusculum Review 2021 Fiction Prize, winner | The Tusculum Review| 2021 Artist-in-Residence | Aesthetics of Research | Columbia College Chicago Library | 2020-2021 Best Essays of 2018 | The Bookends Review | 2018 45th Short Fiction Contest, winner | Jerry Jazz Musician | 2017 Fulbright Fellowship | Adam Mickiewicz University | 2012-2013 |