Articles, essays, and criticism

“Competency vs. Incompetency”, So, Dear Writer, Cave Moon Press, Esther Altshul Helfgott, Katie Tynan, Peggy Sturdivant, editors, 2019 “Resist the Hivemind,” The Raven Chronicles, the Jack Straw writers program at 20, Vol 23, 2016 “The Genre of Silence,” Connotations Press, September 2016 “The Future is Unevenly Distributed”, The Raven Chronicles, Feb, 22, 2016 “Grey Zones and White Centers,”Seattle City of Literature: Reflections from a Community of Writers, edited by Ryan Boudinot, Sasquatch Books, 2015 “Falling and Always Falling: Twin Peaks and the Clear-Cut Landscape,” Moss Lit #2 (2015) “An Uneasy Heaven,” BULL: Men’s Fiction, February 2015 “Marching Backwards into the Future,” PortlandFiction.net, December 2008 “The Social Network of Seattle Literary Magazines (Print and Web),” Proximity Magazine, #3, 2008 “What we Regret: Ten Writers Look back at 2007,” The Stranger, Vol. 17, # 16, 2007 “Best American Strip City: Pacific Highway South,” Semantikon, November 2007 “Hallway” Arcade: Architecture and Design in the Northwest, 24.3, Spring 2006 “The Absense of Rejection: An Elegy to Atlantic Fiction,” The Stranger, Vol. 13, #32, 2005 “The Body Pointless,” The Stranger, Vol. 14, #15, 2004 “Ressurrecting Utopia,” ReWrite, Hugo House, Fall 2004 “Declaration of Mindedness,” Bookmark Series, Seattle Research Institute, 2004 “Competency vs Incompetence,” It’s About Time, Summer 2002 “Queen City Lit, Misc #118, Spring 2002 Floating Bridge, Split: Stories From a Generation Raised on Divorce, Contemporary Books, ed. Ava Chin, 2002 “Age of Uniform,” Misc, Winter 2002 “Welcome to Seattle,” The Stranger, Vol. 11, #1, September 20, 2001 “Seattle is a Vortex,” The Raven Chronicles, Summer 2001 “Fiend Folio,” Misc, April 4/5 2001 “Gutenberg’s Codex,” The American Book Review, Jan/Feb 2001 “Shot Gun Publishing,” Washington Free Press, May/June 1999 “Doing Third Eye Blind at the Puyallup,” Cyber Oasis, March 1999 “Talking About My Generation,” Portlandia Review of Books #6, Fall 1997

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Book Reviews

“Trisha Ready Wastes No Words: Her Debut Novel, Nobuko, Strings 108 Vignettes Into a Narrative Philosophy”, The Stranger, 11/13/2025 “The Wood at Widwinter” by Susanne Clarke, New York Journal of Books, 12/16/2024 “Review of The River People by Polly Buckingham”, The Raven Chronicles, 5/24/2021 “Lifeline by Doug Nufer,” The Raven Chronicles, the Jack Straw writers program at 20, Vol. 23, 2016 Fobbit by David Abrams in The Billings Gazette, 9/9/2012 “Tinderbox Lawn by Carol Guess,” in The Raven Chronicles, Vol.14, No.2, 2009 “Soul of Wind by John Olson,” in The Raven Chronicles, Vol.14, No.2, 2009 “Father Must by Rick Rofihe,” Fictionaut Blog, 5/23/2009 “The Hotel of Irrevocable Acts,” The American Book Review, March/April 2009, Vol. 30, No. 3 “Flight by Sherman Alexie, The WaterBridge Review, October 2007 “Up is Up, But So Is Down: new York’s Downtown Literary Scene: 1974 – 1992 ed. by Brandon Stosuy” The American Book Review, July/August 2007, Vol. 28, No. 5 “Bed: Tao Lin,” The Stranger, Vol. 16, No. 44 , 2007 “Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey,” The WaterBridge Review, September 2006 “Paradiso Diaspora by John Yau,” The Stranger, Vol. 15, No. 44, 2006 “The Time in Between by David Bergen,” The WaterBridge Review, January 2006 “Denny Hill Holdouts: Madison House by Peter Donahue,” Belltown Messenger, December 2005 “Rice Krispies and Soft Summer: Sharon Mesmer,” Boog City, Fall 2005 “Hardboiled & Hard Luck,” The WaterBridge Review, September 2005 “Some of Us Have to Get Up In the Morning,"The Stranger, Vol. 11, #15, December 27, 2002 “Too Much of a Good Thing,” Tablet, #54, November 2002 “Somebody,” Tablet, #50, September 2002 “The Pocket Press Revolution,” Tablet, #49, August 2002 “The Melancholy of Anatomy,” Tablet, #47, July 2002. “What Happened to the Miracle” PIF Magazine, October 2001 “Southern Fried Fiction,”PIF Magazine, June 2001 “Lost Grip on Reality,” PIF Magazine, April 2001 “Half-Moon Scar,” The Raven Chronicles, Summer/Fall 2000 “Black Berry Geletin Prose,” The American Book Review, Jan/Feb 2000 “Oulipo,” The American Book Review, Jan/Feb 1999 “If You Wanna Lie,”The Raven Chronicles, Summer/Fall 1998 “Machine Handwriting,” The Raven Chronicles, Summer/Fall 1998 “Tenant Laws,” The Raven Chronicles, Summer/Fall 1998 “Death of the Cabaret Hegel,” Portlandia Review of Books #7, Summer 1998 “Non-Food,” Voltage #8, 1999 “Oulipo Lab,” Voltage #8, 1999 “Novel Bit Rot,” Voltage #6, 1998 “Burn Your Poems & Ride the Hobby Horse,” Voltage #5, 1998

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Stories and flash fiction

“The Funnel”, Bull, 3.19.2024 “Message from the Moths”, Pacifica Literary Review, 9.2, 2023 “Old Ladies of the Woods”, Moss #7, Summer 2022 (forthcoming) “A Speck on the Wall”, Chrysanthemum Poetry Anthology 2020 “Christy Canyon,” Crux Magazine, Issue #2, 2020 “Lalla ChuckaChucka,” StringTown, Issue # 14_,_ 2019 “The Smoke Event,” Good Works Review, (The Kentucky Review), 2019 “Do Not Invest in Killer Robots”, SPREAD, March 2019 “The Rather Sudden Rise of Machines with Simulated Intelligence”, Cascadia Rising Review, Issue Three Dec 2018 “17s”, PageBoy, # 17, 2018, December 2018 “Interloper,” Cascadia Magazine, September 13, 2018 “Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose the common sense,” PoetryBridge, April 2018 “The Fence Maker,” Necessary Fiction, Dec. 14, 2016 “The Parrot,” The Raven Chronicles, the Jack Straw writers program at 20, Vol. 23, 2016 “The Balloon Graveyard” Drunk Monkey, May 14, 2015 "Feeding Emma,__" Amarillo Bay, May 2015 Jason Johnasson: Mute" (reprint) in Eunoia Review, May 2015 "Three Stories: Sick Time, The Count, Handwashing," Five Willows Review, August 2014 (Pushcart Prize Nomination 2014) “Mark,” Word Riot, March 2014 "Indian Summer," Stirring, 13:11 (November 2011) “Hunger,” MonkeyBicycle, #8, 2011 A Month of Writing at Necessary Fiction, Writer in Residence, August 2010 “Wart,” The Goldenhandcuffs Review, #13, Summer 2010 “The Tin Nose Shop,” Chicago Review, 55:2, Spring 2010 “The League of Bears,” TRNSFR, #2, 2010 (edited and esigned by Alban Fischer) “Delimbing” The Timber Creek Review, Spring 2010 “Already Dead (and F—-),” Opium Magazine, #9, 2009 "Knot," Birkensnake, Issue 2, 2009 “The Bay,” So New @ Necessary Fiction, April 29, 2009 “The Princess Bed,” Filter Literary Journal, No. 2, Fall 2008 “Trestle”, SmokeLong Quarterly, No. 20, Winter 2008 (Pushcart Prize Nomination 2008) “The Mall”, The Raven Chronicles, Vol 12, #3, Fall 2007 “Jason Johannson: Mute,” First Intensity, #22, Fall 2007 “Tony” and “Tiger in a Lifeboat(TM)”, Semantikon, November 2007 (Audio) “The Ribbit-Powered Float,” Semantikon, November 2007 (Audio) “The Penile Colony,” The Roethke Reading, August 2007 “The Death of Charlotte Bronte,” Clackamas Literary Review, Spring 2007 “Showers,” Revolting Sofa, 3/21/2007 “My Gruesome Death,” Steel City Review, January 2007 “Flag Ceremony,” The Mississippi Review, July 2006 “Edgar,"Slouch Magazine, July 2006 “A Plague of Fur,” The Wandering Hermit Review #2, May 2006 “Virility Rituals of North American Teenage Boys,"Spork, Spring, 2006 “A Fifth of July,” Semantikon, 2005 “Snoqualmie,” StringTown #8, 2005 “Earwig,” 5_Trope, Web Del Sol, 2005 “An Uncontrolled Swelling,” MonkeyBicycle.net, 2004 “Sleep Dummy,” Reading Seattle: The City in Prose, UW Press, 2004 “Red Breast,” The Seattle Review, Summer 2002 (Nelson Bentley Prize in Fiction 2002) “Contagion,” The Rendezvous Reader, 10th Ave East Press, 2002 “Wild Animal Ears,” The Jack Straw Writer’s Program, Spring 2002 “Walking Houses,” The Raven Chronicles, Fall 2001 “Trap,” The Mississippi Review, Spring 2001 “Blue Glass,” Mississippi Mud, Spring 2001 “The Bottom of the Lake,” Timber Creek Review, Summer/Fall 2000 “Upstairs Crow,” Chrysanthemum, Vol IV, #2, Summer 2000 “Reverse Order,” StringTown #3, Summer 2000 “On the Radio,” The Cortland Review, Issue 11, 2000 “Inheritance,” The South Dakota Review, Winter 2000 “Rehabilitation,” The Dragonfly Review, Fall 1999, Issue 3 “Mirror Dress,” The Northwest Review, Fall 1999 (Pushcart Prize Nomination 1999) “Fred is Dead,” The Raven Chronicles, Summer 1999 “Help Wanted,” ZYZZYVA, #54, Winter 1998 “A Carpeted Room,” One Step Beyond, Zero Hour Press,1998 “Jolly Rancher,” The North Atlantic Review, Summer 1997 “My Name’s Roy,” Asylum Monthly, March 1995 “Rita,” Asylum Monthly, November 1994 “Old Things,” Arnazella, 1993 “My Father’s Orchard,” 7th Prize, STORY, Summer 1992 “Bot Lik Tikkik,” The Anchovy Review, 1991

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