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The hybrid form and use of white space in this story about love, racism, and violence felt like a necessary way of exploring the unbearable pain and isolation the characters experienced after the murder of their only child....

It was incredibly fun to write this irreverent story about a jealous newlywed who hires a hitman to kill her husband’s dog. My professor at the time, Robin Hemley, described the humor as that which builds upon itself like a...

I interwove several threads throughout this story’s theme of loss and resilience. It was a very visual piece for me, and I worked to make the language both poetic and aesthetically evocative....

Deep in my own domesticity, I was fascinated by the idea of a heterosexual couple taking on an additional wife to fulfill everyone’s needs. When that couple evolved into psychotherapists with their own issues to work out, the situation became...