Creative nonfiction
“Carlisle Longings.” Shenandoah. Fall 2020. Longlisted for the PRISM International Creative Nonfiction Prize. Essay is reprinted in the anthologies We Can See into Another Place: Mile-High Writers on Social Justice (2024), and Disobedient Futures (Kentucky, forthcoming 2027).
“Writing in the Time of Family Separations.” Shenandoah. 2020.
“Keeping Faith on the Reservation,” in Indian Land, by Zen Lefort. Hatje Cantz Verlag (Germany) 2022.
Nonfiction, essays, and blog posts
“Behind the Book,” BookPage magazine, July 2026.
“The New Native American Crime Fiction Renaissance,” Mystery Center, July 27, 2026.
“Just a Writer,” Writer’s Digest magazine, July/August 2026.
“Cultivate Suspense: Lessons from Thrillers,” Poets & Writers magazine, January/February 2026.
“Leonard Peltier’s Sun Dance,” in The Cambridge Companion to American Prison Writing and Mass Incarceration, edited by David Coogan. Cambridge University Press, October 2025.
“First Fiction 2025,” Poets & Writers magazine, July/August 2025.
“Thoughts on Finding Time and Space to Write,” SleuthSayers blog, July 2025.
“Afterword,” for Johnny Geronimo, by Gary Robinson. Red Planet Books, 2025.
“Foreword,” for reissue of The Indians Won, by Martin Cruz Smith. University of New Mexico Press, Native Edge series, 2024.
“Reinventing Indigenous California,” Alta magazine, November, 2023.
“Should I Stay or Should I Go?” Poets & Writers, Sept/Oct, 2023.
“Violence And Love and Family Ties,” Los Angeles Review, June, 2022.
“The First Two Pages of ‘Skin,'” Art Taylor, The First Two Pages, January 18, 2022.
“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. Finalist, Stirrup Award for best article published in Roundup Magazine.
Short stories
“Wind Spirits.” In Crimes Against Nature anthology, edited by Robert Lopresti. Down & Out Books, 2024.
“Sundays.” Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology, edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. Penguin Random House, 2023. The anthology was nominated for the Bram Stoker, Locus, and Shirley Jackson Awards for Best Anthology, and was winner of the Electa Quinney Award.
“Turning Heart.” This Time For Sure: the Bouchercon anthology, edited by Hank Phillippi Ryan. Down & Out Books, 2021. “Turning Heart” is reprinted in the Best American Mystery and Suspense 2022 anthology, edited by Jess Walter and Steph Cha.
“Casa Bonita.” Excerpt from Winter Counts, in The Colorado Book, edited by Sandra Dallas and Tom Noel. Fulcrum Publishing, 2026.
“Colfax and Havana.” Denver Noir anthology, edited by Cynthia Swanson. Akashic Books, 2022. Winner of the Colorado Book Award for Best Anthology. Story is noted as Distinguished in the Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023 anthology.
“Hooch.” The Perfect Crime anthology, edited by Maxim Jakubowski and Vaseem Khan. HarperCollins worldwide, 2022. Story was reprinted in Black Cat Weekly #188, 2025.
“Skin.” Midnight Hour anthology, edited by Abby Vandiver. Crooked Lane Books, 2021. Winner of the 2022 Spur Award for Best Short Story.
“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.