Publications
MAGAZINE
“What Are Those Kids Doing With That Enormous Gun?” – The Atlantic (Longreads Top 5)
“A Sober Utopia” – Pacific Standard (Longreads Top 5)
“Midnight in the Garden of the Goatherd” – Pacific Standard
“Racism in the Diamond Mine” – Pacific Standard
“King of Names” – AFAR
“Lesotho’s Day of Truth” – Foreign Affairs
“The Mother of All Comedy” – Mpls.St.Paul Magazine
“Amy Klobuchar on the Campaign Trail” – Mpls.St.Paul Magazine
“Hindsight Is 2020” – Mpls.St.Paul Magazine
LIT JOURNAL
“Huron River Drive” – Black Warrior Review (2015 BWR Nonfiction Prize)
“Death of the Virgin” – The Southeast Review (2015 Narrative Nonfiction Prize)
“Forty-One Months” – Bellevue Literary Review (2014 Buckvar Prize for Nonfiction)
“The Noose in Hentiesbaai” – Guernica
“Basotho Dance Party” – Roads & Kingdoms
“Good & Bad Joala” – Asymptote
“In the Realm of Vanished Beasts” – The Rumpus
“The Masked Horsemen of Southern Africa” – Jungles in Paris
“The Kings of Simcoe County” – The Morning News
“Possible Histories of Leroy Paige” – HYPERtext
“Killing a Pig” – Gastronomica
“Ghosts in Snow & Rock” – Sundog Lit
“The Devil’s Snake Curve – Josh Ostergaard” (book review) – The Under Review
NEWSPAPER
“The Book of Eels – Patrik Svensson” (book review) – Minneapolis Star Tribune
“The Museum of Whales You Will Never See – A. Kendra Greene” (book review) – Minneapolis Star Tribune
“This Brilliant Darkness – Jeff Sharlet” (book review) – Minneapolis Star Tribune
“Coasting to Mapholaneng” – Minneapolis StarTribune
“Schooled at Scrabble” – Christian Science Monitor
WRITING IN TRANSLATION
“What Are Those Kids Doing With That Enormous Gun?” – Courrier Japon (Japanese translation)
“Good & Bad Joala” – 2000 (Hungarian translation)
“Good & Bad Joala” – Asymptote (Chinese translation)
INTERVIEWS & MEDIA
Rick Steves Radio (Everything Lost Is Found Again)
Booktalk with Diana Korte (Everything Lost Is Found Again)
Write On! Radio (Everything Lost Is Found Again)
The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow (“A Sober Utopia”)
Black Warrior Review (craft interview)
The Southeast Review (craft interview)
CNN International (“What Are Those Kids Doing…”)
Bellevue Literary Review (craft interview)