Books
-- Strange As This Weather Has Been (Novel, forthcoming from Shoemaker & Hoard, October 2007. )
-- Given Ground (A collection of short stories; The University Press of New England, 2001.) Order directly from UPNE Press.
Novel Excerpts
-- “The End of the World in Slow Motion.” Forthcoming in Narrative, Fall 2007.
-- “Pieces of God.” Kestrel, Spring 2007.
-- “Mogey.” Hunger Mountain ( Spring 2005): 58-70.
Short Stories
-- “Dog Song.” The Surreal South. Ed. Pinckney and Laura Benedict, Winston-Salem, NC: Press 53. Forthcoming, October 2007.
-- “Dog Song.” Pushcart Prize XXIX, Best of the Small Presses. Ed. Bill Henderson, Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 2005. 94-114.
-- “Coop.” Quarterly West 58 (Summer 2004): 101-105.
-- “Dog Song.” New Stories from the South, the Best of 2004. Ed. Shannon Ravenel, Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2004. 169-193.
-- “Dog Song.” Shenandoah 53.4 (Winter 2003): 5-26.
-- “Jolo.” Backcountry: Contemporary Writing in West Virginia. Ed. Irene McKinney, Morgantown, WV: WVU Press, 2002. 209-223.
-- “Redneck Boys.” Glimmer Train 39 (Summer 2001): 105-116.
-- “Bait.” The Southeast Review 21.1 (Spring 2001): 64-80.
-- “Crow Season.” Chattahoochee Review 21.2 (Winter 2001): 93-98.
-- “Dirt.” The Chariton Review 26.2 (Fall 2000): 21-25.
-- “Jolo.” Mid-American Review 21.1 (Fall 2000): 6-22.
-- “Revival.” Virginia Quarterly Review 76.4 (Autumn 2000): 713-720.
-- “Cash Crop: 1897." The Massachusetts Review 40.1 (Spring 1999): 11-25.
-- “Tall Grass." Shenandoah 47.4 (Winter 1997): 30-32.
-- “Sang." Chattahoochee Review 16.2 (Spring 1996): 51-67.
-- “Ghostless." Virginia Quarterly Review 71.2 (Spring 1995): 270-79.
-- “Sister." Best of Wind. Ed. Steven R. Cope and Charlie G. Hughes. Lexington,
Kentucky: Wind Publications, 1994: 186-93.
-- “Wappatomaka." Antietam Review 14 (Spring 1994): 11-12.
-- “In the Territory." Chaminade Literary Review 12-13 (1993): 140-46.
-- “Sister." Wind 22.70 (1992): 54-61.
-- “Bearing Witness." Hawaii-Pacific Review 4 (Spring 1989): 31-40.
-- “Getting Wood." Antietam Review 9 (Spring 1989): 17-18.
-- “The Stillness in Stillness." Poetic Space 4.6 (Spring 1989): 5-6.
Creative Nonfiction
-- “Capital Realism.” Short Takes: Brief Encounters With Contemporary Nonfiction. Ed. Judith Kitchen. W. W. Norton, 2005. 219-226.
-- “Tough.” New Millennium Writings. No. 14 (2004-2005): 133-144.
-- “Tough.” Five Points 7.3 (Summer 2003).
-- “Keeping Clean in Korat." An Inn Near Kyoto. Ed. C.W. Truesdale and Kathleen Coskran, Minneapolis, Minnesota: New Rivers Press, 1998. 270-283.
-- “Keeping Clean in Korat." International Quarterly 2.4 (Winter 1997): 43-56.
Poem
-- “Found Dogs.” Forthcoming in Shenandoah.
Scholarly Articles
-- “‘Similar Outcroppings From the Same Strata’: The Synonymous Development Imagery of Appalachian Natives and Natural Resources.” The Journal of Appalachian Studies 6.1 & 2 (Spring/Fall 2000): 100-108.
-- “’The Wheel’s Worst Illusion’: The Spatial Politics of Operation Wandering Soul.” Review of Contemporary Fiction 18.3 (Fall 1998): 72-83.
-- “Story Time: Working-Class Women's Interventions in Literary Temporal Conventions." Narrative 6.3 (October 1998): 292-306.
-- “Taken By Storm: The Exploitation of Metaphor in the Persian Gulf Crisis."
Metaphor and Symbolic Activity 8.4 (1993): 281-295.
Journalism
-- “Reading How You’re Read: The Art of Evaluating Criticism.” Poets and Writers, May/June 2007.
-- “Virtual Hillbilly: Musings on JT LeRoy by a Flesh and Blood West Virginian.” Appalachian Heritage, Summer 2006: 35-45.
-- “Citizen Dustbusters Win One in Southern West Virginia.” Appalachian Voice, Spring 2003. 12-13.
-- “Kentucky High Schoolers Blast Mountaintop Removal.” Appalachian Voice, Summer, 2003. 9.
