Articles
Cabaret community celebrates the return of a live audience The Columbia Chronicle | online (Oct. 2022) An 'empathetic heartbeat': Telling others' life stories The Columbia Chronicle | online (Oct. 2022) Columbia authors talk South Side representation The Columbia Chronicle | online (Sept. 2022) A Pop of Color: Homenature Pop-Up Shop The Source | Hamptons Magazine (June 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 (Apr. 2022) The 5 Best Hotels in Palm Beach Online Feature | Palm Beach Magazine | online (Feb. 2022) South Side Stray Strut: What's up with the cats of Pilsen? Feature | Newcity Magazine (print & online (Sept. 2019) Short Stories
Colorado The Rialto Books Review | print (2023) No Shoes Hypertext Magazine | print & online (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
The Art of Brevity: Robert Shapard's Bare Ana Another Chicago Magazine | online (Feb. 6, 2025) Life's Beautiful Impermanence: Miles Harvey's The Registry of Forgotten Objects | Another Chicago Magazine | online (Oct. 31, 2024) Novel or Stories? Author Kate Wisel on the Powerful Paradox of Linked Collections PopMatters | online (Apr. 12, 2022) Silence Has a Sound: The Unempty Quiet in Sound of Metal | Film | PopMatters | online (Apr. 8, 2021) 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) Residencies | Fellowships
Sterling Watson Fellowship Writers in Paradise (2024) Albert P. Weisman Award To MASKS Literary Magazine | Albert P. Weisman Foundation (2022 & 2023) Franz Kafka Fellowship Summer Writers Program| Prague School of Communication (2021) Artist-in-Residence Aesthetics of Research | Columbia College Chicago Library (2020-2021) Fulbright Fellowship Adam Mickiewicz University (2012-2013) |