I’ve published two acclaimed novels, Tell Me How This Ends Well and Antonia Lively Breaks the Silence, and a collection of stories, Most of Us Are Here Against Our Will, received numerous fellowships from Yaddo, Jentel, Ledig House, Virginia Center for the Arts, the Santa Fe Arts Institute, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and Emory University, where I was a Fiction Fellow (2013–2015). I was the Emerging Writer Lecturer at Gettysburg College (2008–2009) and a writer-in-residence at Texas A&M (2012–2013). My work has appeared in Hobart, Prairie Schooner, West Branch, StorySouth, The Brooklyn Review, and more.

I was first runner-up in The Flannery O’Connor Story Prize and placed third in The Atlantic Monthly’s fiction competition for my story "Most of Us Are Here Against Our Will," selected by Mary Gaitskill. In 2020, I founded The Big Texas Author Talk, a virtual lecture series highlighting Texas writers. In 2024, I received the Fulbright-Mach Award from Fulbright Austria and am currently on a Fulbright in Vienna, researching a novel during the 2024–2025 academic year.