Creative nonfiction
“Carlisle Longings.” Shenandoah. Fall 2019. Longlisted for the 2018 PRISM International Creative Nonfiction Prize.
Nonfiction, essays, and blog posts
“Looking Back on ‘There There,'” Alta Online, November 2021.
“Writing Winter Counts.” The Bookseller (UK), August 13, 2021.
“Writing to Change the World: Strategies for Social Justice in Fiction.” Writer’s Digest, July/August 2021.
“This 19th-Century Law Helps Shape Criminal Justice in Indian Country.” New York Times. July 19, 2020. Reprinted in Salt Lake Tribune, July 20, 2020.
“Distractions,” Poisoned Pen blog, August 19, 2020.
“Seven Essential Native American Crime Novels,” The Strand Magazine, September 5, 2020.
“Why Indigenous Crime Fiction Matters,” CrimeReads, September 9, 2020.
“A Year in Reading,” The Millions, December 9, 2020
“Manifest Destiny,” in The Routledge Companion to Race and Ethnicity, 2d ed. Routledge, 2021.
“Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: Evaluating the Book’s Significance, 50 Years After its Publication,” Roundup Magazine, Vol. XXVIII, No. 3, February 2021.
Short stories
“Colfax and Havana.” Denver Noir anthology, edited by Cynthia Swanson, forthcoming May, 2022 from Akashic Books.
“Hooch.” The Perfect Crime anthology, edited by Maxim Jakubowski and Vaseem Khan, forthcoming March 2022 from HarperCollins worldwide.
“Skin.” Midnight Hour anthology, edited by Abby Vandiver. Crooked Lane Books, 2021.
“Turning Heart.” This Time For Sure: the Bouchercon anthology, edited by Hank Phillippi Ryan. Down & Out Books, 2021.
“Spork.” Transmotion. 2016.
“Sourtoe.” Tribal College Journal. 2014. Winner of the Tribal College Journal fiction contest.
“Winter Counts.” Yellow Medicine Review. 2014.
“Saltines.” Criminal Class Review. 2012.
“Apollo.” Foundling Review. 2010.