Writing Samples

Stories

 

• My Good Man

• True Crime

• Trick or Treat

• Night in the Ruts

• Patriot Act

 

 

Poems

 

• My Mother Delivers a Quick Lesson in Survival and History

• My Cousin's Wife Brings My Aunt Home, Unexpectedly

• Summons

• Poem to the Beams in my Uncle's House, Empty These Days

• Indian Picnic Cornbread

• Trying to Find the Indian Family in Millenium Park, Chicago

• Jaboozie Turns Me On to Deep Cuts

• Eric Gansworth Reclaims a Racial Slur in His New Memoir

 

 

Essays

 

• American Heritage

• From the Reservation to Dawn of the Dead to James Dickey and Back Again