WRITING

Book

Say Nephew: On Boyhood, Unclehood, and Queer Mentorship, Catapult, 2026

Essays & Conversations

“The Double-Edged Fantasy of Blackouts,” Chicago Review of Books, October 2023 (on Justin Torres’s second novel)

“Theodore McCombs Interviewed,” BOMB Magazine, May 2023 (on Uranians: Stories)

“The Story of The Story of Harold,” The Iowa Review, issue 52.2–52.3, winter 2022–23 (on a lost classic of queer fiction by Terry Andrews, the pen name of children’s author George Selden)

“Fiona Apple Changes My Mind,” Astra Magazine, May 2022 (on “Hot Knife”)

“Spirit Photographs,” DIAGRAM, issue 22.2, April 2022 (on Tumblr porn, ghost images, and bathhouse apparitions)

“Of Uncles,” The Offing, April 2022 (on some ideas about The Gay Uncle and my uncle himself)

“Hosts,” Guernica, January 2022 (on hospitality and gay sex)

“Rebus,” Passages North, issue 43, 2022 (on Robert Rauschenberg, Idaho, “queer art,” and longing; named a notable essay of 2022 in The Best American Essays 2023)

Poems

“July 23, 2020,” The Journal, issue 45.1, fall 2021

“Proxy,” Poets.org, August 2021 (selected by Meg Freitag for the Academy of American Poets University Prize, May 2021; originally published in Blue Earth Review, issue 26, spring 2021)

“Poem Excluding Homosexuality,” Hobart, May 2021

“Sappho at Gem State Crystals, Moscow, Idaho,” The Shore, issue 9, spring 2021