Writing

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Selected recent publications:

“Absolutely Imperishable: The Loyd Family’s Ceramic Tombstones.” An article co-authored with Hal Pugh, for Tributaries, the journal of the Alabama Folklife Association, No. 17 (2023).

“The Singing Man,” an essay for Southern Cultures. Fall 2021.

“Beyond the Sea,” an essay about music in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, in the 1950s, in the Oxford American’s 2019 Southern Music Issue Number 20.

“Really is Hard to Beat,” an article about Kinston, North Carolina’s heritage of funk music, in the Oxford American’s 2018 20th Southern Music Issue

“Thelytoky,” an essay in the Fall 2018 Potomac Review.

“Life and Death of the Father of Modern Miniature Golf,” an essay published in the Winter 2016/2017 Southern Review, received a Special Mention in the 2017 Pushcart Prizes.

“The Booger,” a short story, in Boulevard, Spring 2017.