Creative nonfiction
“Carlisle Longings.” Shenandoah. Fall 2019. Longlisted for the 2018 PRISM International Creative Nonfiction Prize. Essay will be reprinted in Regis University MFA Anthology.
“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
“Foreword,” for reissue of The Indians Won, by Martin Cruz Smith. University of New Mexico Press, Native Edge series, forthcoming 2024.
“Leonard Peltier’s Sun Dance,” in The Cambridge Companion to American Prison Literature, edited by David Coogan. Forthcoming 2024.
“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
“Turning Heart.” This Time For Sure: the Bouchercon anthology, edited by Hank Phillippi Ryan. Down & Out Books, 2021. Winner of the 2022 Anthony Award for Best Anthology. “Turning Heart” is reprinted in the Best American Mystery and Suspense 2022 anthology, edited by Jess Walter and Steph Cha.
“Sundays.” Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology, edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore Van Alst. Penguin Random House, 2023.
“Casa Bonita.” Excerpt from Winter Counts, in The Colorado Book, edited by Sandra Dallas and Tom Noel. Fulcrum Publishing, forthcoming 2024
“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.
“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.