DEGREES

BOOKS

NEW MEDIA PUBLICATIONS

STORIES AND ESSAYS PUBLISHED IN

ANTHOLOGIZED WORK IN

• The Best American Short Stories 2022, ed. Andrew Sean Greer and Heidi Pitlor
• The Best Small Fictions 2018, ed. by Aimee Bender
• We Can’t Help It If We’re From Florida (2017), Burrow Press, ed. by Shane Hinton
• The Art and Craft of Fiction (2016), Bedford/St. Martin’s, ed. by Michael Kardos
• Attacked From Beneath by Carp and From Above By Seagulls: A Collection of Summer Suitable Reading From the Believer Magazine, McSweeney’s Books (2015)
• The Best of McSweeney’s, McSweeney’s Books (2014)
• The Best American Short Stories 2010, ed. Richard Russo and Heidi Pitlor
• The Better of McSweeney’s Vol. 2, ed. by Eli Horowitz, McSweeney’s Books (2010)
• The United States of McSweeney’s, ed. Nick Hornby and Eli Horowitz, Hamish Hamilton/Penguin Books (2009)
• The Best American Short Stories 2009, ed. Alice Sebold and Heidi Pitlor
• New Stories From the South: The Year’s Best 2008, Algonquin Books
• The Pushcart Prize XXXI: Best of the Small Presses, ed. Bill Henderson, W.W. Norton (2008)
• The Best American Short Stories 2006, ed. Ann Patchett and Katrina Kenison
• The Future Dictionary of America, ed. Jonathan Safran Foer, Nicole Krauss, and Dave Eggers, McSweeney’s Books (2004)

SELECTED STORIES

• “An Education,” McSweeney’s (2024)
• “Gainesville,” The Georgia Review (2022)
• “Eight Days,” LitMag (2021)
• “How Soon Until We’re Deadly?” American Short Fiction (2021)
• “Bears Among the Living,” McSweeney’s (2021)
• “On Screen,” McSweeney’s (2017)
• “Third Wonder,” McSweeney’s (2017)
• “City of Trees,” LitMag (2017)
• “True Story” and “Heyday," Volt (2016)
• “Lobsters,” The Lucky Peach (2014)
• “Waiting,” McSweeney’s Pop-Up Book (2014)
• “The Sisters,” McSweeney’s (2012)
• “English Made Easy,” American Short Fiction (2011)
• “Buzzers,” Ecotone (2011)
• “Lugo in Normal Time,” McSweeney’s (2011)
• “The Perfect Age,” The Iowa Review (2010)
• “Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events,” McSweeney’s (2009)
• “One Dog Year,” Tin House (2008)
• “In the Pines,” Harvard Review (2008)

HONORS

• Anthologized in The Best American Short Stories (2006, 2009, 2010, 2022)
• National Magazine Award in Fiction finalist (2022)
• Sandra named one of the best podcasts of 2018 by The Globe and Mail, The Guardian, Thrillist, Time Magazine, and Forbes Magazine
• Digital Americana Prize for Storytelling for The Silent History (2014)
• Webby Award for Innovation for The Silent History (2014)
• Official selection of the Sundance New Frontiers Story Lab for The Silent History (2014)
• Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, Long List (2011)
• MacDowell Colony Fellowship (2011)
• National Magazine Award in Fiction (2010)
• Anthologized in The Better of McSweeney’s Vol. 2 (2010) and in the U.K. and Australia in The United States of McSweeney’s (2009)
• National Endowment for the Arts individual artist fellowship (2008)
• Anthologized in New Stories From the South: The Year’s Best (2008)
• Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, Long List (2007)
• Believer Book Award, Long List (2007)
• Winner of the Pushcart Prize (2006)
• Winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award (2006)
• Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction, presented by The Chicago Tribune (2005)