Featured and forthcoming
Books
- Friendly Fire: A Fractured Memoir – HarperCollins/Harper Horizon (September 2024) | Bookshop.org
- Never Nothing: Poetry EP – Malarky Books (Forthcoming October 2026)
Nonfiction
- “Checking for Holes in the Multiverse” – Catapult (September 2017)
- “Dear Wigleaf” – Wigleaf (January 2021)
- “Public Safety” – Roxane Gay’s The Audacity (February 2021)
- “Curiously Colored & Timely Animals + Other Things Forgotten Post Surgery” – Nominated for a Pushcart Hippocampus (May 2021)
- “Crane’s Head Flick of the Wrist” – JMWW (June 2021)
- “Supreme Reign Over Things That Hurt” – Pithead Chapel (May 2022)
- “About Accidental Firearm Discharge On Campus” – Finalist for The SmokeLong Workshop Prize Autofocus (March 2023)
- “A Note On ‘The Replacement'” – CRAFT (March 2023)
- “My best friend accidentally shot me in the head. Here’s what life is like with traumatic brain injury” – Reader View recommended San Francisco Chronicle (April 2024)
- “The Donington Method: How to Teach Yourself by Imitating the Greats” – Write or Die Magazine (July 2024)
- “Mark Was My Best Friend. He Shot Me in the Head: Excerpt of Friendly Fire: A Fractured Memoir“ – Newsweek (August 2024)
- “Moves and Countermoves: Excerpt of Friendly Fire: A Fractured Memoir” – Minnesota Star Tribune (September 2024)
- “What is a ‘Fractured Memoir’ and why I wrote one” – Writer’s Digest (September 2024)
- “Convergence” – Winner of the SmokeLong Summer CNF Competition 2024 SmokeLong Quarterly (September 2024)
- “Demystifying the Memoir Query: A Brief Interview with Literary Agent Michele Mortimer” – Brevity Blog (September 2024)
- “Accidental on Purpose: Why I use the ‘wrong’ phrase to define the night my best friend shot me in the head” – The Writer’s Chronicle [AWP] (December 2024)
- “We Still Don’t Kiss” – The Adroit Journal (August 2025)
Fiction
- “The Intern” – Wigleaf (January 2021)
- “Home Soon for a Home Cooked Meal” – X-R-A-Y (March 2021)
- “The Sponge” – Rejection Letters (July 2021)
- “Spirit Box” – Waxwing (October 2021)
- “Dirt” – Jellyfish Review (November 2021)
- “The Replacement” – Selected for Best Small Fictions 2024 and Nominated for Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy CRAFT (March 2023)
- “Stop/Motion” – Necessary Fiction (April 2023)
- “Raise the Baseline Comfort of Your Entire Life: A Solicited Review of Lou’s Discount Beds” – Pidgeonholes (April 2023)
- “The Ritual” – Heavy Feather Review (May 2023)
- “For the Love of the Game” – Cotton Xenomorph (May 2023)
- “The Soul as a Self-Cleaning Oven” – New Delta Review (June 2023)
- “Quick Math” – Selected for Wigleaf Top 50 2024 BULL (July 2023)
- “Angel in the MediFold” – Special mention in Roxane Gay’s The Audacity Monkeybicycle (March 2024)
Poetry
- “The Red Ladybug” – Okay Donkey (April 2021)
- “Hom, or Someplace Like It” – Bending Genres (October 2021)
- “SMASH!” – Nominated for Best of the Net Variant Literature (January 2022)
- “Paper Staple” – HAD (February 2022)
- “An Incomplete List of Things the Gunshot Wound on Top of My Head Has Looked Like Over the Past Five Years” – HAD (February 2022)
- “Hooping Under the Sistine Chapel” – W&S Quarterly: Hobart Extended Universe (April 2022)
- “Batting .500” – Nominated for Best Microfiction 2024 Lost Balloon (May 2024)
- “Against the Beams” Read the poem | Order issue 44.1 – Pleiades (May 2024)
- “The Way 8s Are Made,” The Regular Crowd,” “Toads,” “The Crawlspace,” “Last Visit With Dad,” – Never Nothing: Poetry EP | Malarky Books (Forthcoming October 2026)
Interviews/Lists
- Magers & Quinn Booksellers Launch Event in Conversation with Salvatore Pane (September 2024)
- Smoke & Mirrors with Paul Rousseau SmokeLong Quarterly (September 2024)
- Free Thinking with Montel Podcast (September 2024)
- Diversability Review of Friendly Fire: A Fractured Memoir
- Interview with Authority Magazine (September 2024)
- Write or Die Magazine “35 Books We Can’t Wait to Read this September”
- In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer Podcast (September 2024)
- “The bullet that ended our friendship” BBC World Service Podcast (October 2024)
- Writers at Work Podcast with Jim Fusilli (October 2024)
- “Shot in the head… and survived” One Minute Tours (October 2024)
- Cover to Cover with Mary Jackson Podcast (November 2024)
- Turn the Page A Syosset Library Podcast (November 2024)
- Survivor Story Emilia Clarke’s SameYou.org (January 2025)
- “Writing in the Aftermath: Paul Rousseau’s Friendly Fire” The Rumpus prose book review
- 2024 OWL Award Winners Friendly Fire Community-Wide Read
- Reddit [AMA] Memoir Author Paul Rousseau and Agent Michele Mortimer
- “The Bullet Bounced off My Head” Lived to Tell Podcast
- “Meet the BookLife Judge” Publishers Weekly Q&A (April 2026)
Anthologies
- Best Small Fictions 2024 (February 2025)
- If I Can Be Honest: Selected Prose from the Four Years of Autofocus Lit (July 2025)
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