Work Published Online
2023
Mitigating, Pithead Chapel
2019
Marble, Necklace, Clock, Gravel Magazine
2017
Sometimes This is Enough, Talking Book
Top Ten Resolutions I Will Not Be Upholding in 2017, Talking Book
We Are All At Risk, Paper Darts
2016
Anatomy, Split Lip
Kill Me With It/ Six Underground, New South
She Knows, Corium
Grit, Crack the Spine
War Dolls, Little Fiction
The Creation of Suffering, decomP
Roots Take Over, Revolution John
The Sugar From Your Mouth, Knee Jerk
The Wedding Ring, Hippocampus
His Teeth, The Collapsar
Ten Times Food was Emotionally Significant for me in 2016, Little Fiction
2015
We Are the Hallwalkers, Hobart
Simon Says, I Rebuke You, Litro Mag
Swallow, The Other Stories
The Contents of Her Stomach, Cease, Cows
A Good Brain, People Holding
You Have What I Want, Third Point Press
Breakable, Heavy Feather
Exit Music, HYPERtext Magazine
An Abomination of Platypus, The Molotov Cocktail
Dogtooth, Change Seven
2014
Gumdrop, The Butter
We Sink Like Ships, Heavy Feather Review
2012
I Knew You Would Belong to Me, HYPERtext Magazine
2011
Fire, wigleaf
The Breathing Dead, PANK
Delaney, Bluestem
Work Published In Print
2019
Slimer, Hypertext Review
2017
Ecotone, Flapperhouse
Peaceful Creatures, Dostoevsky Wannabe Cassette 94
2016
Jack Sprat, Black Candies Gross and Unlikeable Issue
Midas Girls, Hypertrophic
2015
Two Souls/ Necessary Dark/ Body and Blood, Witch Craft Mag
2010
The Heart of God: PANK Magazine, Hair Trigger 30, Lark Sparrow Press
Awards and Honors
2019
Slimer, Nominated for Best American Short Stories
2017
His Teeth, Nominated for Best of the Net
Fire, wigleaf top 50
2016
Jack Sprat, Nominated for Pushcart Prize
War Dolls, Nominated for Pushcart Prize
The Creation of Suffering, Nominated for Pushcart Prize
2015
The Contents of Her Stomach, Awarded Best of the Net
You Have What I Want, Nominated for Best of the Net
Dogtooth, Nominated for Best of the Net
First Lines of I Knew You Would Belong to Me and The Breathing Dead, Placed second and honorable mention, respectively, in Easy Street Magazine’s Greatest American Sentence Contest
Exit Music, Finalist in Heavy Feather Review Chapbook Contest
2014
We Sink Like Ships, Nominated for Pushcart Prize
Gumdrop, Positive Review in Change Seven
2011
Delaney, Nominated for Best of the Net
The Heart of God, Nominated for Pushcart Prize
2009
The Heart of God, First place Traditional Fiction Columbia Scholastic Press Association Awards 2009
2007
Chelsea Laine Wells Creative Writing-Fiction Scholarship, The Chelsea Laine Wells Creative Writing – Fiction Scholarship is open to incoming transfer students who intend on majoring in Creative Writing – Fiction at Columbia College Chicago. It was set up in her honor upon her graduation by an alum.
Into the Eye of You, Second place Essays Columbia Scholastic Press Association Awards
2002
Simon Says, I Rebuke You, Second Place Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition
Interviews
2014
Contributers’ Corner, Heavy Feather Review
2011
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