Excerpts from ESQUIRE BALL

Girl with Lavender Tongue
Originally published in PRISM International, Issue 60.1, Wonder (Fall 2021)
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Devil’s Hole Road
Originally published in Storm Cellar, Issue 9.2, Fusion (Summer/Fall 2021)
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Other Selected Writings

Review: Rage & Other Cages, by Aimee LaBrie
Necessary Fiction, February 26, 2024
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Review: Spinning to Mars, by Meg Pokrass
American Book Review, Volume 43, Number 4 Winter 2022-23

Review: Wings and Other Things, by Chauna Craig
The Attic, Sep 26, 2022
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Review: Private Way by Ladette Randolph
Necessary Fiction, June 6, 2022
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Review: Shit Cassandra Saw, Gwen E. Kirby
Smokelong Quarterly, January 30, 2022
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A Review of Keegan Lester’s Perfect Dirt, And Other Things I’ve Gotten Wrong
The Adroit Journal, December 13, 2021
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A Compassionate Portrait: Leesa Cross-Smith’s This Close to Okay
Lit Pub, March 18, 2021
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Review: Likes, by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
Drizzle July 7, 2021
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Blurring lines, Fraying Edges: A Review of We Might As Well Light Something on Fire, by Ron MacLean
Lit Pub, February 4, 2020
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The Complexity of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience: A Review of Nancy Au’s Spider Love Song and Other Stories
Lit Pub, February 18, 2020
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Review: So That We Can Glow, by Leesa Cross-Smith
Drizzle, May 17, 2020
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Review: The Desert Sky Before Us, by Anne Valente
JMWWA, August 8, 2019
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A Girl Goes Into the Forest, by Peg Alford Purcell
Necessary Fiction, July 15, 2019
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The Heart of What I Want to Tell You About is Not the Place: A Conversation with Amy Bloom
The Fourth River, February 2018
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