Joyce Carol Oates has selected my short story "I Cannot Help You With This" as tied for second place in this year's Calvino Prize for fabulist fiction. She called my story "poignant and well written."
The story was published (print only) this summer in issue 13.1 of New South, which is now available--after a Covid-related delay--for purchase through New South's Submittable page.
"I Cannot Help You With This" took me three years to finish, several years longer than any other short story I've written. Prior to publication and this award, the piece was a finalist several times in Glimmer Train's fiction contests and workshopped at Tin House in 2018.