Fiction
Novel: The Butterfly Effect (Alcove Press, 2020), chosen as the 2022 All-Iowa Read for Adult Fiction
“Operational Guide to a Fruit: Subentry, Grapefruit”, HAD
“The Topography of a Heartbeat”, Portland Review
“The Dumpster Game”, X-Ray Lit Mag
“Mirror Game“, Sandy River Review, vol 36, no 2, 2016.
“Six Authors in Search of a Character”, Split Lip Magazine, Print Vol. 2 *nominated for Best Small Fictions 2019
“Grapefruit”, Cotton Xenomorph _*nominated for Wigleaf’s Top 50 Short Fiction of the Year 2019
Humor
“Playbill Bios for Parenthood”, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
Job Posting for a Baby, The Belladonna
“If other things were commented on like online Recipes”, The Belladonna
“Memorials to Those We Lost to Parenting”, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
“Lice Real Estate Listings”, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
“Editor Notes for Prince Eric’s Wedding Announcement,” The Belladonna
“Updated Privacy Policy from your Children”, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
“Hi from the Long Story before the Recipe on this Blog,” The Belladonna
“Literal Evergreen Humor for Literal Evergreens,” Points in Case
“School Spirit Week for our actual School Spirit”, Points in Case
“Our Divorce Would Cause a Temporal Rift, Sharon,” Slackjaw
Essays
“Motherhood, Metamorphosis” Catapult
“Who Gets to be Ingenues?“, Catapult
“I Got Bangs but it’s Not a Cry for Help” Elle
“Why Voyager is the Only Thing I’m Streaming during a Pandemic”, Star Trek
“We’re Obsessed with the Butterfly Filter”, InStyle
“Why I Use the Fertility Awareness Method for Family Planning”, New York Times Parenting
“Why We Need More Religious Characters in Romance,” Elle
“Take Me Out but Bring Me Back Too”, HAD
“The Election and the Ash Borer”, The Rumpus
“For Crying Out Loud”, US Catholic
“Faculty Bratitude”, Chronicle of Higher Education
“The Story behind Nebraska’s Cult Favorite Salad Dressing” Allrecipes
“Shout out to Moms in Cluster-Feeding Hell”, Scary Mommy
Interviews, Reviews, Etc
“Midwest Not-Nice”, Electric Lit
“What Wonder Woman Meant to her Earliest Fans”, Electric Lit
Interview with Lyz Lenz for GOD LAND, Electric Lit
Interview with Chloe Clark for COLLECTIVE GRAVITIES, Necessary Fiction
“What Reading MAID Taught Me…” Electric Lit
“The Compassion Gap and Mommy Forums” Mothers Always Write
Interview with Meg Elison for Book of the Unnamed Midwife, Books that Shook Us
“Unpopular Food Opinions: The Runza”, Cotton Xenomorph
“A Toast to the Furby”, Data Driven Investor
Accessible Lear: Teaching King Lear to Secondary-Education Students
Rachel Mans McKenny 