Upcoming Book
The First Verb: Cultivating Christian Creativity (Cascade Books, 2024--forthcoming)
Scholarly Articles
Review of Better to See You With: Perspectives on Flannery O’Connor, Selected and New by Marshall Bruce Gentry. Women’s Studies, 2022
“Dear Regina: Flannery O’Connor’s Letters from Iowa: An Interview with Monica Miller.” Cheers! Flannery O’Connor Newsletter, Fall 2021/Spring 2022, Vol. 24, No. 2/Vol. 25, No. 1, p. 2-4.
“Better to See You With: Perspectives on Flannery O’Connor, Selected and New—An Interview with Marshall Bruce Gentry.” Cheers! Flannery O’Connor Newsletter, Fall 2021/Spring 2022, Vol. 24, No. 2/Vol. 25, No. 1, p. 10-11.
Review of Beyond the Story: American Literary Fiction and the Limits of Materialism by Christine Bieber Lake. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2021, Vol. 33, No. 1-2, pp. 186-88.
Review of The Strange Birds of Flannery O’Connor by Amy Alznauer. Cheers! Flannery O’Connor Newsletter, Spring 2020, Vol. 23, No. 1, p.3.
“An Interview with Christine Flanagan.” Cheers! Flannery O’Connor Newsletter, Spring 2019, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 4-6.
--- and Jessica Hooten Wilson. “’Why Do the Heathen Rage?’ Manuscripts to Be Published.” Cheers! Flannery O’Connor Newsletter, Fall 2017, Vol. 20, No. 3-4, p. 5.
“Black Doubling in Flannery O’Connor’s ‘Why Do the Heathen Rage?” Collected Essays on Flannery O’Connor. Ed. Bob Evans. Salem Press, 2016, pp. 190-206.
“Seeing Potential in the Heathen: Flannery O’Connor’s Unfinished Novel” Flannery O’Connor Review, vol. 13, 2015, pp. 105-122.
“(R)evolutions of Change: Female Alterability in ‘The Children’ and ‘At The Landing’” Southern Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 1, fall 1997, pp.51-63.
“A Filament Spinning Outward: Female Identity Reconceptualization in Porter’s Fiction.” Southern Studies, vol. 4, no.4, Winter 1993, pp. 377-90.
“A 'Hard Unwinking Angry Point of Light': Surviving the War in 'Pale Horse, Pale Rider.'” Proceedings: The Image of War, University of Southern Colorado Press, 1992.
“Wentworth in the Garden of Gomorrah: A Study of the Anima in Descent into Hell” Mythlore, vol. 13, no. 2, Winter 1986, pp. 41-44, 54.
Creative Nonfiction Pieces
“Tree Life.” Altarwork. Online, Fall 2016.
“Tent of Meeting.” Readers Ruminate, Ruminate, Spring 2016.
“Rooted.” The Word Journal Magazine, January 2016.
“Midwest Mimicking: Thoreau in Indiana.” Indiana Voice Journal, Winter 2015.
“Like Ice.” Readers Ruminate. Ruminate Magazine, vol. 36, Fall 2015, pp. 6-7.
“Shooting Stars.” Eunoia Review, March 2015.
“Catching Snowflakes.” Beautiful Things (online), River Teeth, February 2, 2015.
“The Number One Reason I Run.” Healthy Living (Stumble Bloggers), March 2015.