FICTION

• “The Rift at the Heart of the World,” Cimarron Review (forthcoming) 

• “Metaphor,” Wigleaf  (2023) 

• “The Jordan Turned Its Back and Fled,” Image (2021) 

• “Lulu,” LEON Literary Review (2020)

• “The Canadian,” Cincinnati Review (2019)

SELECT ESSAYS

Personal Essays

• “Dear Wigleaf: I’m Married to a Priest,” Wigleaf (2023)

• “Ballet in a Time of Plague,” America Magazine (2020)

• “The Mobile Incarnation: Embracing the Body Through the Ballet of Justin Peck,” Bearings Online/Collegeville Institute (June 2019)

Film, Television & Culture

• “‘Anora’: the Cinderella story that wasn’t,” America Magazine (2025)

• “In ‘Priscilla,’ Elvis’s twisted love shows what marriage is–and isn’t–for,” America Magazine (2023)

• “‘Abbot Elementary’ is a show about vocation,” America Magazine (2022) 

•  “Andrew Bird sings hope for a hurting America,” America Magazine (2022) 

•  “Obi-Wan Kenobi Reminds Us of the Value of Monasticism,” Sojourners (2022)

•  “Wes Anderson Tells the Truth About Nostalgia,” America Magazine (2022)

• “Chris Thile Writes Psalms for the Doubting,” America Magazine (2021)

• “Finding Stillness in the Films of Frederick Wiseman,” America Magazine (2021) 

•  “Leonard Cohen, a Greek Island, and Entering the Story,” Cincinnati Review blog (2020) 

• “What Greta Gerwig’s New Take on ‘Little Women’ Teaches Us About Death,” America Magazine (2020) 

Religion

• “The Baby Dinosaur at the Manger: Or, The Incarnation is for Everybody,” Bearings Online/Collegeville Institute (2019) 

• “Saying Goodbye to Sacred Spaces,” Bearings Online/Collegeville Institute (2019) 

• “Did God Endow All His Creatures with an Appreciation of Beauty?” Christianity Today (2019)