HONORS
2022 National Endowment of the Arts - Creative Writing / Literature Fellowship
2021 / 2022 MacDowell Fellowship - Literature Fiction
2019 Syracuse University Press Veteran’s Writing Award - Winner – Tobias Wolf selected my novel, Revolutions of All Colors, for publication by Syracuse University Press in October 2020.
2019 Witness Literary Award – Finalist
2017 Line of Advance Colonel Darron L. Wright Veteran’s Writing Award – Second Place
FICTION
Revolutions of All Colors — Fiction / Excerpt — Literary Hub — October 2020
“Walking Point”—Fiction —Our Best War Stories: Prize-winning Poetry and Prose from the Col. Darron L. Wright Memorial Award—Middle West Press— October 2020
“The Tap Cascade” — Fiction — Southern Humanities Review — February 2020
“The Knife Intifada” – Fiction – CRAFT Literary – October 2019
“Viable Solutions” – Fiction – Drunken Boat – December 2016
NONFICTION/ CRITICISM
“Close Quarters”—Essay—The Daily Best, October 2023
“Violence Committed Abroad in Our Name”—Essay—War on the Rocks, October 2022
“Heritage, Not Hate”—Essay—War on the Rocks—October 2021
“Despite the Yoke”—Essay—War on the Rocks—June 2020
“My Kyiv”—Essay—The Rumpus—May 2020
“If Beale Street Could Talk and Other Movies I Loved More Than The Book”—Essay—The Mantle—February 2019
“Sea Stories and Memoirs”—Essay—The Mantle—August 2018
“Reliving a Deadly Day at a UN Compound in Mogadishu”—Essay—The New York Times—June 2018
“The Black Panther and Shades of Masculinity”—Essay—The Mantle—February 2018
“Jerusalem’s Naked Injustice”—Essay—The Good Men Project—December 2017
“Memories of War: A Veteran’s View of Hanoi’s Military Monuments”—Essay—Outpost Magazine—July 2017
“Black Panther: Finding the Pure Hero”—Essay—The Mantle—April 2016
“Familiarity: Street Art in Occupied Palestine”—Essay—Afropunk—January 2016
“Five of the Greatest Beards That Never Were”—Essay—The Good Men Project—April 2014
“Growing up Secular”—Essay—The Good Men Project—July 2014
“Diplomacy and Risk After Benghazi”—Essay—The Mantle—October 2012
“The Stench”—Essay—The Mantle—August 2012
“UN Peace Operations: Clearing the Bad Rap”—Essay—The World Policy Blog—June 2012
“Somalia: Between the Clan and Modernity”—Essay—The World Policy Blog—March 2012
“Passing out Sandwiches at the Gates of Hell”—Essay—The World Policy Blog—December 2011
INTERVIEWS
World Literature Today—October 2023
Punctured Lines Interview—September 2022
The WBT Podcast—April 2022
Author, Can I Ask You - Podcast Interview - October 2021
Inspired Writing Series - War By Other Means - with Phil Klay, Matt Gallagher, and Elliot Ackerman - March 2021
Veteran’s Writing Award Ceremony with Tobias Wolff - November 2020
Book Culture—December 2020
Shelf Awareness—October 2020
Southern Humanities Review—April 2020
Syracuse University Press—October 2019
READINGS
“Despite the Yoke” Raymond Carver Reading Series - Syracuse University - November 2020
“The Tap Cascade” At the Vermont College of Fine Arts - Visiting Writer - June 2020