A Gift of Two, a novel (currently unpublished, approximately 120,000 words)
Praise:
“A GIFT OF TWO is a daring and perpetually interesting work of speculative fiction that literalizes and explores the repercussions of an impossibility—an individual splitting in two—and what this might say about living in America. The book vividly evokes a semi-real New York City and the surprising, always persuasive, choices of its memorable protagonist, Catarina." —Zachary Lazar, author of Sway and I Pity the Poor Immigrant
Awards:
Runner-up Finalist, 2017 AWP Prize for the Novel
Selected for Mentorship, Tin House Writers Conference, Portland, Oregon (July 2018)
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lonely beasts., a short story collection (currently unpublished, approximately 65,000 words)
Praise:
"Imbued with speculative elements, lonely beasts. tackles themes of alienation in modern life and the human struggle to connect by employing urban landscapes that contain a fantastical edge." — Stillhouse Press
Awards for Collection:
Second Runner Up, 2021 IHLR Book Prize, Iron Horse Press
Finalist, 2020 Short Fiction Award, Moon City Press
Finalist, 2019 Short Fiction Award, Moon City Press
Finalist, 2017 Many Voices Project Award, New Rivers Press
Finalist, 2016 Mary Roberts Rinehart Fiction Award, Stillhouse Press
Awards for Component Stories:
4x Top-25 Finalist, Glimmer Train's Summer 2017 Fiction Open, Winter 2017 Short Story Award, and Winter 2018 Short Story Award (for I Cannot Help You With This); January/February 2019 Fiction Open (for The Second Time He Left Her)
Honorable Mention, Glimmer Train’s Summer 2017 Fiction Open (for The Valparaísian Tree)
Story of the Month, Bartleby Snopes (July 2016) (for Goat-Hearted)
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Jerry (from Accounting), a novella (published in Day One, approximately 20,000 words) (out-of-print)
Praise:
"Jerry (from Accounting) invents its own genre of dystopian corporate noir." — Morgan Parker, author of There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce
"Jerry (from Accounting) . . . is the weirdly wonderful story of a guy trapped in a Kafka-like museum of office furniture." —Len Edgerly, host of the Kindle Chronicles podcast.
Awards:
Honorable Mention, Glimmer Train's Summer 2016 Fiction Open
Media:
Interview, The Kindle Chronicles podcast (Episode 452 — April 1, 2017)
Book Trailer
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"Legally Speaking, Rats Aren't Even Animals," an essay (published by Cutthroat, a Journal of the Arts — Summer 2021)
Awards:
First Place, the 2020 Barry Lopez Nonfiction Prize
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“I Cannot Help You With This,” a short story (published by New South)
Praise:
“Poignant and well-written” Joyce Carol Oates, Calvino Prize Judge
Awards:
Second Place, 2020 Calvino Prize in Fabulist Fiction
Finalist, Glimmer Train's Summer 2017 Fiction Open, Winter 2017 Short Story Award, and Winter 2018 Short Story Award
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Conferences
Fiction Contributor, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Ripton, Vermont (August 2021) (held online due to Covid-19)
Craft Talk Presentation: “Writing Embodied Women,” North American Review Writing Conference, Cedar Falls, Iowa (April 2019)
Fiction Contributor + Mentorship Recipient, Tin House Writers Conference, Portland, Oregon (July 2018)
Fiction Contributor, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Ripton, Vermont (August 2017)
Appearances
Fiction Reader, Writers & Words, Baltimore, Maryland (November 2018)
Fiction Reader, Inner Loop Reading Series, Washington, DC (August 2017, March 2018, May 2021, April 2022)
Fiction Reader, Arts on Site, New York, NY (April 2017)