Faculty Publications
Selected Publications
“Can we finally talk about colourism?,” Harper’s Bazaar, 2020
“Light-Skinned Girls and Kelly Rowlands,” Shondaland, 2018
“Shirley from a Small Place,” Granta, 2018
“Island,” Buzzfeed, 2018
“Mermaid River,” The Sewanee Review, 2018
“The ghost of Jia Yi,” Vice, 2017
“Slack,” Virginia Quarterly Review, 2017
“Bad Behavior,” The Paris Review, 2016
Selected Publications
"Framing A Loss." Slate. May, 2018 (essay)
"At the March for Our Lives, Registering a New Generation of Voters." LitHub. March 26, 2018 (essay)
The First Rule of Swimming, New York: Little, Brown & Company, 2013.
The Stone Fields: An Epitaph for the Living. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004.
Stillness: and Other Stories. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003.
“Crossing the Rio Grande.” Guernica. December 4, 2013 (short story)
"Gathering Up the Little Gods." Missouri Review 29.4 (Winter 2006): 42-57. (short story)
"Adiyo, Kerido." Zoetrope. (Summer 2003) (short story)
Selected Publications
BOOKS
Didion: An Imagined Life, Pegasus Books (forthcoming)
Freak Kingdom PublicAffairs
Hyper Simon & Schuster
IN THE MEDIA
Timothy Denevi on the Art of Journalism and the Power of Reading The Daily Stoic
"#1264: Timothy Denevi" The Joe Rogan Experience
Book TV: Freak Kingdom CSPAN
RECENT ESSAYS
"Among the Didionistas" Tablet Magazine, 2025
"The Fight of the Century: Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul in Dallas" County Highway, 2024
"Joan Didion, the Death of R.F.K. and the Solution to a Decades-Old Mystery" The New York Times, 2023
“Right-Wing Story Time, Part 3: Sean Spicer and the Unbearable Sadness of Being” Salon 2023
“Right-Wing Story Time, Part 2: Chaya Raichik and the Ballad of Libs of TikTok” Salon 2023
“Right-Wing Story Time, Part 1: Jack Posobiec and the Banality of Influence” Salon 2023
"Kari Lake, Steve Bannon, and a Side of Orwell: My Adventures at CPAC 2023" Salon 2023
"How Joe Rogan Does What He Does: My Day with America's Most Famous Podcaster" Salon 2022
"An Eyewitness to History as It Broke: January 6, One Year Later" Salon, 2022
"Trump Says the Quiet Part Loud: The Final Day at CPAC" Literary Hub, 2021
"Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, and a Dancing Roger Stone: CPAC Day Two" Literary Hub, 2021
"Cult 45: Day One at CPAC" Literary Hub, 2021
"QAnon Takes the Capitol: In the Crowd with the Insurrectionists as Trump Call for a Coup" Literary Hub, 2021
"American Brown Shirts in the Streets of the Capital" Literary Hub, 2020
"Election Night in the Capital: Proud Boys, Parties, Protest" Literary Hub, 2020
"This Week in America Would Make RFK Weep" CNN.com, 2020
"On the Clearing of Lafayette Square" Literary Hub, 2020
"Front and Center at the Michael Cohen Hearing" Literary Hub, 2019
"Fear and Loathing at Richard Nixon's Inauguration," from FREAK KINGDOM Time, 2019
"Hunter S. Thompson in Chicago, 1968: The Battle for the Democratic Party's Soul," from FREAK KINGDOM Salon, 2018
"On American Fascism and the Self-Destruct Button at the Heart of Our Democracy" CNN.com, 2018
"The Last Days of Robert F. Kennedy: On the Radical Compassion of an American Icon" Literary Hub, 2018
"On RFK's Murder and Conspiracy Theories" Salon, 2018
"Hear the Real Dr. Gonzo Roar" Salon, 2018
"Backcourt at the US OPEN" Literary Hub, 2017
"Richard Nixon, Barry Goldwater, and Hunter S. Thompson at the 1964 RNC" The Paris Review, 2017
"The Temple" The Normal School, 2017
"At CPAC: The Orwellian Power of Steve Bannon" Literary Hub, 2017
"The Future is a Ceiling of Impossible Water" Scoundrel Time, 2017
"January 20th, 2017: "Jesus Christ at the Inauguration" Literary Hub, 2017
"On Impulsiveness, Authenticity, and Donald Trump" New York, 2017
"November 8th, 2016: A Long Night in Washington, DC" Literary Hub, 2016
"On Amphetamine, Authority, and Hunter S. Thompson" New York, 2016
Dispatches from the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, Literary Hub, 2016
"On the Road to Cleveland: Trump Speaks to the Werewolf in Us"
"Tuesday in Cleveland, Republicans Sing 'Shake it Off'"
"Wednesday in Cleveland: A Full-Blown Roman Circus"
"Cleveland, Last Days: Trump's Speech, The End"
"Bernie Bros and Trump Thugs: A Hot Day in Philadelphia"
"At the Last Day of the DNC"
Selected Publications
Loot. New York: Knopf, 2023.
The Tusk That Did The Damage. New York: Vintage Books, 2015
Aerogrammes: and Other Stories. New York: Knopf, 2012
Atlas of Unknowns. New York: Vintage, 2009
Selected Publications
BOOKS
River House. Milkweed Editions (2015)
The Fact of the Matter. Milkweed Editions (2012)
Dwelling Song. University of Georgia Press (2004)
Design. Center for Literary Publishing (2000)
Selected Publications
Books--Nonfiction
Cat and Bird: a memoir. Belt Publishing (2024)
Yarn: Remembering the Way Home. Gemmamedia Book (2010)
Polite Lies: on Being a Woman Caught between Cultures. Henry Holt (1998); Fawcett (1999)
The Dream of Water. Henry Holt (1994); Fawcett (1995)
Books—Fiction
Barn Cat. Gemmamedia Books (2013)
Stone Field, True Arrow. Metropolitan (2000); Picador USA (2001)
One Bird. Henry Holt (1995); Fawcett (1996)
Shizuko’s Daughter. Henry Holt (1993); Fawcett (1994)
Essays
"Magic Garments," "Dressed to Kill," Conjunctions
“Pet Grief,” “Yarn,” Harvard Review
“Cat and Bird,” “Between the Forest and the Well,” Conjunctions
“Alone in the Garden,” Washingtonian
“The Pleasure of Letting Go,” Ploughshares
“Pullovers,” the American Scholar
“Shawls,” the Missouri Review
Selected Publications
The Kuruntokai and its Mirror. London and Seattle: Hanuman Editions, 2024. 80 pages.
After. New York: New York Review Books, July 2022. Indian edition: HarperCollins, September 2022. 624 pages.
Låt varje språk vara främmande —“Let Every Language Be Foreign”. Translated by Erik Bergqvist. Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand, 2015. 208 pages. New and selected poems in Swedish translation.
Life and Times of Mr. S. New Delhi: HarperCollins, 2012. Reissued January 2020. 112 pages.
Universal Beach (second edition). Los Angeles / New York: Ingirum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni, 2011. 77 pages.
Universal Beach (first edition). Mumbai: Harbour Line Books, 2006. 76 pages.
Selected Publications
"Body as Single Family Home." Fiction, New Flash Fiction Review, 2025.
"Contained Evolution." Fiction, MoonPark Review, 2023.
"The Shadow Boyfriends." Fiction, Atlas & Alice, 2022.
"The Disappearing." Fiction, Fictive Dream, 2022.
"Tornado Weather." Fiction, Fiction Southeast, 2021.
"Inked." Fiction, Heavy Feather Review, 2020.
"Rumors of Ice." Fiction, Booth, 2020.
"On Fire." Fiction, Matchbook, 2019.
"The Mermaids Grow Old." Fiction, Pithead Chapel, 2019.
"The Magician." Fiction, Wigleaf, 2018.
"View of the End of the World from the Holiday Inn Express - Salina." Fiction, Jellyfish Review, 2018.
"Gravity, Reduced." Fiction, SmokeLong Quarterly, 2017.
"Origin Story." Nonfiction, Tahoma Literary Review, 2016.
"The Astronauts' Baseball League." Fiction, Monkeybicycle, 2016.
Selected Publications
"Notes on a Whiteboard," Atlas & Alice.
"Night by the Neva, in St. Petersburg," Coldnoon Magazine.
"TheMystery.Twine" Runner up and Honorable Mention, 2018 Grove Atlantic’s TheMystery.doc Contest.
"The Solitary Life of Martin Trencher," Bartleby Snopes.
"The Six and Eight," The Northern Virginia Review (Pushcart Prize Nomination)
Into the Night, Spence City Books.
Selected Publications
Books
Errings. Fordham University Press (2014)
The Cuckoo. Yale University Press (2004)
Poems
"The Reader," "A Snail," "The Rabbits," "Anniversary," On the Seawall
"My Mother's Spider," Bennington Review
"Dussen Castle," Image
"Postdiluvian by Bosch," Image
"Second Level Window," Terrain
"Three Days," "Coppice," "Cicadas," On the Seawall
"Chorus," poem-a-day
"Summer Home," "A Crossing," "The Instrument," The Adriot Journal
"Little Songs," The Adroit Journal
"An Allegory," Bennington Review
"from Flood Myth," Blackbox Manifold
"Patrimony," "Heather Green," "Earth and Water," CURA
"The Lake and the Skiff," The Volta
"Time Ghazal." The New Republic
"Bildungsroman." The New Republic
"Purgatorio." The Academy of American Poets
Essays
"On 'An Allegory.'" Poetry Daily
"On Czelsaw Milosz’s The Separate Notebooks." At Length
"Three Questions." Poets on Teaching: A Sourcebook
Selected Publications
BOOKS
- The Adventure of the Castle Thief and Other Expeditions and Indiscretions, Crippen & Landru, 2023.
- The Boy Detective & The Summer of '74 and Other Tales of Suspense, Crippen & Landru, 2020.
- On The Road with Del & Louise: A Novel in Stories, Henery Press, Fall 2015: winner, Agatha Award, Best First Novel, 2015; finalist, Anthony Award and Macavity Award, Best First Novel, 2016
SHORT STORIES
- “The Look of Love,” untitled anthology of crime fiction inspired by the songs of Burt Bacharach (Level Best Books, forthcoming 2026).
- “Dalliances,” Double-Crossing Van Dine (Crippen & Landru, 2025)
- “Tuesday Night Teas,” Agatha and Derringer Get Cozy (Down & Out Books, 2024).
- “The Gained Ground,” Midsummer Mysteries (Flame Tree Press, 2024).
- “After Their Convictions, Six Murderers Reflect on How Killing Mr. Boddy Changed Their Lives,” co-written with Tara Laskowski, Black Cat Mystery Magazine, Issue 15, Fall 2024.
- “Dark Threads, Loose Strands,” Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, April/May 2024: selected for Best American Mystery & Suspense 2025 (Mariner Books).
- “Two for One,” Murder Neat, a SleuthSayers anthology (Level Best Books, 2024).
- “We Keep The Wall Between Us As We Go,” Mystery Tribune, Winter 2024.
- “Ordeals,” School of Hard Knox (Crippen & Landru, 2023)
- “The Invisible Band,” Edgar and Shamus Go Golden: Twelve Tales of Murder, Mystery, and Master Detection (Down & Out Books, 2023): finalist, Agatha Award for Best Short Story
- “We Are All Strangers Here,” Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, September/October 2022
- “Love Me or Leave Me,” Music of the Night: The Crime Writers’ Association (Flame Tree Press, 2022)
- “Little Martha,” Trouble No More: Crime Fiction Inspired by Southern Rock and the Blues (Down & Out Books, 2021)
- “Ornamental, My Dear Watson,” standalone pamphlet (Crippen & Landru, 2021)
- “All Tomorrow’s Parties,” Chesapeake Crimes: Invitation to Murder (Wildside Press, 2020)
- “Both Sides Now,” co-written with Tara Laskowski, The Beat of Black Wings: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Joni Mitchell (Untreed Reads, 2020)
- “A Close Shave,” Morning of the Killers, edited by E.A. Aymar and Sarah M. Chen (Down & Out Books, 2020)
- “Hard Return,” Crime Travel, edited by Barb Goffman (Wildside Press, December 2019)
- “Better Days,” Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, May/June 2019
- “English 398: Fiction Writing Workshop: Notes from Class & A Partial Draft by Brittany Wallace, Plus Feedback, Conference & More,” Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, July/August 2018: finalist, Edgar Award for Best Short Story, 2019; finalist, Agatha Award for Best Short Story, 2018
- “Sunday Morning, Saturday Night,” Down & Out: The Magazine, Spring 2018
- “Fairy Tales,” Black Cat Mystery Magazine, Fall 2017
- “A Necessary Ingredient,” Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea, Down & Out Books, 2017: finalist, Agatha Award for Best Short Story, 2017; finalist, Anthony Award for Best Short Story, 2018; finalist, Macavity Award for Best Short Story, 2018
- “The Great Detective Reflects,” Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, November 2016
- “Parallel Play,” Chesapeake Crimes: Storm Warning, Wildside Press, 2016: winner, Agatha Award for Best Short Story, 2016; finalist, Anthony Award for Best Short Story, 2017; winner, Macavity Award for Best Short Story, 2017; finalist, Thriller Award for Best Short Story, 2017
- “Commission,” Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, May 2015
- “The Odds Are Against Us,” Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, November 2014: winner, Agatha Award, Best Short Story, 2014; winner, Anthony Award, Best Short Story, 2015; finalist, Macavity Award, Best Short Story, 2015
- “Premonition,” Chesapeake Crimes: Homicidal Holidays. Wildside Press, 2014: finalist, Agatha Award, Best Short Story, 2014
- “Precision,” Gargoyle, Summer 2014
- “Ithaca 37,” Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, September/October 2013
- “The Care and Feeding of Houseplants,” Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, March/April 2013: winner, Agatha Award, Best Short Story, 2013; winner, Macavity Award, Best Short Story, 2014; finalist, Anthony Award for Best Short Story, 2014
- “When Duty Calls,” Chesapeake Crimes: This Job Is Murder, Wildside Press, 2012: Derringer Award, Best Long Story, 2013; finalist, 2012 Agatha Award for Best Short Story and 2013 Macavity Award for Best Short Story; reprinted in The Crooked Road, Volume 3 (2013)
Selected Publications
Clash by Night, Gerry LaFemina and Gregg Wilhelm, eds. (CityLit Press, 2015) ANTHOLOGY
“Leaning Into Purple Lines,” “Sakura,” “Thief River Scrap,” “Tight with Hemingway,” and “Coyotes at Dawn” Beltway Poetry Quarterly. Summer 2019. POETRY
“Thief River Scrap” and “Jutting Out.” Gargoyle. No. 65. 40th Anniversary Edition 2017. POETRY
“Ephebiphobia Rainfall.” Loch Raven Review. Vol. 1 2016. SHORT STORY
“Jutting Out (Patapsco) and “Arithmetic of an Argument.” The Light Ekphrastic (Baltimore LED Project). Spring 2015. POETRY
“Black Infiniti: A Used Car Proves the Vehicle For a Local Poet’s Legacy.” City Paper. 28 May 2008: 20. NONFICTION