• New Fiction – To the Kid We Pelted with Six Dozen Eggs – Maudlin House

    One Halloween when I was in high school, some friends and I came into the possession of an obscene quantity of eggs which we threw liberally at anything and everything, including this one kid who egged us and refused to run away when we returned fire with overwhelming force. The details of that night are…

  • Road Rewilding for Sky Island Alliance

    Southwestern conservation organization, Sky Island Alliance, is overseeing a survey of decommissioned forest roads in the Huachuca Mountains. Volunteers like me and my compatriots use an app called Field Maps to document the conditions of unpaved roads the Forest Service has deemed no longer in use. In doing so, we gather information about the road…

  • New Essay – Eyes in the Wild – BorderLore

    My recent article in BorderLore, “Eyes in the Wild,” was super fun to write. I wrote the piece as part of the Southwest Folklife Alliance’s Climate and Culture cohort, a group of writers throughout the southwest examining the intersection of folklife and climate change. How are people’s beliefs and practices evolving to address the changes…

  • New Reviews on Full Stop

    I have been a little delinquent in updating this site over the last few months as I worked on several projects. Some of those project were book reviews. First up, is Selah Saterstrom‘s powerful and eloquent short book, Rancher. Containing one long essay about sexual assault, both in the author’s history and in history more…

  • Objects of Our Depiction

    Objects of Our Depiction: A Material Culture Survey is my new material cultures studies project that asks contemporary writers to answer questions about tools, toys, keepsakes, art, and other objects in their work. That survey can be found here. Material culture often refers to an angle of scholarship in which academic readers extrapolate on the…

  • New Interview – Ander Monson – Full Stop

    Few people in the literary community create as many fun and meaningful opportunities for writers as Ander Monson. From editing the magazines DIAGRAM and Essay Daily, to running New Michigan Press, to hosting an annual March Madness-inspired writing tournament dedicated to essays about music, Monson creates unique spaces for many writers of all stripes to…

  • New Review – Madness by Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué in Rain Taxi

    A few years back, I reviewed the poetry collection Losing Miami by Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué for Terrain.org. The collection was later a finalist of the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry, which didn’t surprise me at all, because the work was outstanding. It was so outstanding, in fact, that when I learned about Gabriel’s new collection…

  • New Interview – Bojan Louis – Full Stop

    Tomorrow, September 27, 2022, is the release date of Bojan Louis’s new short fiction collection, Sinking Bell (Gray Wolf Press). Sinking Bell is Bojan’s latest book since his 2017 American Book Award-winning poetry collection, Currents (BkMk). I asked Bojan some questions about Sinking Bell for Full Stop and you can read our discussion here.

  • New Review – Gag Reflex by Elle Nash

    Elle Nash’s novel, Gag Reflex, takes place on Live Journal and chronicles a young woman’s transition into adulthood and her struggles with body dysmorphia and an eating disorder. It’s an extremely fast read and feels like an artifact of the early 2000s. Dark as the character’s struggles are, the book maintains dark humor and prurient…

  • New Essay – “What’s the Bear’s Name?” – Deep Wild

    I never met the bear who is the subject of my essay’s title, “What’s the Bears Name?” It lived in the Galiuro Mountains in Arizona in canyon called Rattlesnake Canyon near an old homestead called Powers Garden. Deep Wild was so kind as to include my essay in their newest issue. The essay asks why…