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FICTION

"Long Live The Girl Detective," Uncharted Mag (reprint) (October 2022)

 

"Laurie In The Closet/Michael with the Knife," (reprint) Hobart After Dark (October 2021)

 

"Margo on the Hunt," Pithead Chapel  (June 2021)

 

"Long Live The Girl Detective," Electric Lit (March 2021; BAMS 2022)

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"Water in the Blood," TriQuarterly Issue 159 (January 2021) 

 

"While The Men Go Hunt The Shark, Mrs. Brody Meets Her Lover," Hobart After Dark (January 2021)

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"Look What You Made Me Do," BULL (October 2020; chosen for Wigleaf Top 50 longlist 2021)

 

"The Horses, The Horses," Boneyard: A Flash Horror Anthology by X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine (October

     2019)

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"Where Did All The Older Women Go?", Waxwing (October 2019)

 

"Yell Louder," Atticus Review (September 2019; nominated for Best Small Fictions)

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"Margo. Turn Left.", Passages North (September 2019)

 

"What Your Mother Thinks While Making The Bed," CRAFT (August 2019)

 

"After the Wal-Mart Closes In Your Hometown," Pithead Chapel (June 2019)

 

"Break Maidens," Paper Darts, Volume 8 (print, available online as of November 2019) (March 2019)

 

"In the In-Between," Jellyfish Review (March 2019)

 

"Jason Can't Take a Joke," Collective Unrest (March 2019; nominated for Best of the Net)

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"In the New World," Longleaf Review (March 2019)

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"Lily in the Light," X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine (January 2019; nominated for Best Small Fictions; BASS distinguished 2020)

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"Laurie In The Closet/Michael With The Knife," The Ginger Collect (Grand Prize Winner, Halloween Contest 2018)

 

"The Woman in the Refrigerator," Coffin Bell Journal (October 2018; nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best Small Fictions) 

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"We All Know About Margo," SmokeLong Quarterly (September 2018; nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best Small   

                                                                                           Fictions; chosen for the 2019 Wigleaf Top 50)

 

"The Big Bang," Brain, Child Magazine (December 2017)

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"Everything is Breakable," Miracle Monacle, Issue 9 (spring 2017)

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NONFICTION
(Reportage, Essays, Reviews, and Commentary)

"A Single Mother's Manifesto for Mother's Day," Men Yell At Me (May 2023)

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"This Is Not The Essay I Meant To Write," Phoebe Journal (May 2022)

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"The Art of Losing," The Audacity (March 2022)

 

"The Governor," (essay excerpt) The Bureau Dispatch (January 2022)

 

"When You Tell Me You Aren't Good With Words," No Contact (November 2021)

 

"Writing Richer Characters By Writing Kink," column two in the Fuck Me Up: The Craft of Sex Writing 

     series at Catapult's Don't Write Alone (November 2021)

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"On Craft, Rhythm, and Writing About Sex," column one in the Fuck Me Up: The Craft of Sex Writing

     series at Catapult's Don't Write Alone (September 2021) 

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"We Are Hoping," column six in the Submerged: Stories from Under the Surface series at 

     Pidgeonholes (July 2021)

 

"Living Memory: Black archivists, activists, and artists are fighting for justice and ethical

     remembrance - and reimagining the archive itself," Guernica (June 2021; one of the Top

     5 Longreads of the Week at Longreads)

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"We Are Still Here," column five in the "Submerged: Stories from Under the Surface series at

     Pidgeonholes (June 2021)

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"We Are Longing," column four in the "Submerged: Stories from Under the Surface series at

     Pidgeonholes (April 2021)

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"We Are Grieving, And We Are Alone," column three in the "Submerged: Stories from Under the Surface

     series at Pidgeonholes (March 2021)

 

"Instructions For Fucking Your Postpartum Wife," Lost Balloon (February 2021)

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"We Are Raging," column two in the "Submerged: Stories from Under the Surface

     series at Pidgeonholes (February 2021)

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"We Are Submerged," column one in the "Submerged: Stories from Under the Surface

     series at Pidgeonholes (January 2021)

 

"Once I Was An Animal," jmww Journal (December 2020; runner-up for the Best Feminist Sex writing

     Good Sex Award 2021)

 

"Distancing: Odessey and Oracle," The Believer (September 2020)

 

"This isn't what I thought a pandemic would look like," Dear Quarantine Diary (April 2020)

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"When You Say His Name," Rhythm & Bones Lit  (November 2019; nominated for a Pushcart Prize) 

 

"The Settle Point," Gay Magazine (October 2019)

 

"Author's Note," CRAFT (August 2019)

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"Definitions of Quiet That Didn't Make It Into My Dissertation," Pidgeonholes (May 2019)

 

"Whenever Men Think I'm Smiling," Brevity (May 2019; nominated for a Pushcart Prize)

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"Ten Rules For Cooks On the Verge of Collapse," Hobart After Dark (February 2019)

 

"When Alice Shares An Article About Earthquakes Along The New Madrid Fault," Moonchild Magazine (October 2018) 

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"Horror Lives in the Body," Electric Literature (October 2018; BAE notable 2019) 

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"On Hearing Liz Phair's 'Flower' For The First Time," Memoir Mixtapes (September 2018)

 

"Eggs Five Ways," MUTHA Magazine (September 2018)

 

"Love, Loss, and A Surprise Diagnosis: What I Learned From the Birth of My Son," Huffington Post (April 2013)

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"Held in the Light: Norman Morrison's Sacrifice For Peace and His Family's Journey of Healing," The Christian Century      (January 2009) Full text also crossposted at Huffington Post

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"Vote Your Bible, Not Your Wallet: Dispatch From North Carolina," Huffington Post (December 2008)

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"The Gloves Are Officially Off: Palin's Speech Makes Her Fair Game," Huffington Post (October 2008)  

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"Iowa's 'Open Access Policy' Is Nothing But a Trojan Horse," Huffington Post (March 2008)

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"Allen's Argument Isn't 'Vintage,' It's Just Old," Huffington Post (March 2008)

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"The Latest Discussion on the Future of Fuel: Where Were You, Mainstream Media?" Huffington Post (August 2007)

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"Should Al Jazeera English Come to America?" Huffington Post (November 2006)

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"Live from Reykjavik: An Insider's Look at Iceland Airwaves 2006 (Part III)," Huffington Post (October 2006) 

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"Live from Reykjavik: An Insider's Look at Iceland Airwaves 2006 (Part II)," Huffington Post (October 2006)

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"Live from Reykjavik: An Insider's Look at Iceland Airwaves 2006 (Part I)," Huffington Post (October 2006)

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"Who Cares About Jill Carroll? Brangelina's Having a Baby," Huffington Post (January 2006) 

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"A Letter to Yoko Ono on the 25th Anniversary of Her Husband's Death," Huffington Post (December 2005)

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"Dumping Miller Won't Save the Times," Huffington Post (November 2005)

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"Judith Miller and the War in Iraq: A Case for Evolution," Huffington Post (October 2005) 

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"The Fate of Gotham," Huffington Post (October 2005)

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SCHOLARSHIP
INTERVIEWS AND HIGHLIGHTS

"Smoke & Mirrors with Kate Gehan," Smokelong Quarterly (June 2021)

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Megan's work translated into Polish for the inaugural issue of blyski, a new Polish flash journal (June 2021)

 

"Smoke & Mirrors With Chantelle Chiwetalu," SmokeLong Quarterly (December 2020)

 

"Smoke & Mirrors With Emily James," SmokeLong Quarterly (June 2020)

 

"Like petals in a breeze," Megan's work featured on Mr. Bear's Violet Hour Saloon (March 2021)

 

"Smoke & Mirrors: An Interview with Emma Stough," SmokeLong Quarterly (March 2020) 

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"'Don't hold back': An Interview With Guest Reader Megan Pillow," SmokeLong Quarterly (December 2019) 

 

"Smoke & Mirrors: An Interview with Leslie Walker Trahan," SmokeLong Quarterly (September 2019)

 

"Out of Disaster," Megan's work featured on Mr. Bear's Violet Hour Saloon (July 2019) 

 

"Mini-Interview with Megan Pillow Davis," tommydeanwriter.com (January 2019)

 

"Smoke & Mirrors: An Interview with Kaitlyn Andrews-Rice," SmokeLong Quarterly, (December 2018)

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"Do you like scary movies?" Editor's Pick Highlight on "Horror Lives in the Body," Longreads (October 2018)

 

"Smoke & Mirrors: An Interview with Megan Pillow Davis," SmokeLong Quarterly (September 2018)

POETRY

"Three Days After," Still: The Journal (summer 2017) 

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"At the Door," Solidago Journal (print, fall 2016) 

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