Writing

Fiction

After We’re Dead, swamp pink literary journal (April 2024)

This Voicemail Is No Longer Accepting Messages, Fictive Dream’s Flash Fiction February (February 2024)

The King’s Tower and That Old Fairy Tale, -ette Review (September 2023)

Questions to Men, Get Bent: A New Anthology from Bending Genres (print, February 2023)

Cost of Admission, Maudlin House (November 2022)

Found, The Bureau Dispatch (July 2022)

How to Cure Loneliness, Wigleaf (April 2022)

Red Pepper Mother, MicroLit Almanac (November 2021); nominated for Best of the Net

Hide and Seek, Arcturus Magazine (October 2021); finalist in the 1816 Horror story competition

Where the River Bends, Rivanna Review (print; September 2021)

Devour, Hungry Ghost Project (print; August 2021)

Tending the Elephant, Hayden’s Ferry Review (June 2021)

Siren, No Contact Magazine (May 2021)

Spent, HAD (April 2021); selected as Wigleaf Top 50 Short Fiction list of 2021

Room No. 5, Albergo Dolce Vita, Florence, Italy, Flash Frog (April 2021)

Homework, The Chattahoochee Review (January 2021); listen to my reading of it on Micro Podcast here

My Mother’s Rooms, Twin Pies Literary (December 2020)

Let it Out and Every Day the House, Leon Literary Review (December 2020)

Black Rocks, Juked (November 2020); selected as Longform’s Fiction Pick of the Week

1985, Ghost Parachute (September 2020)

Stranger, Jellyfish Review (June 2020)

Friday Night, Hobart (May 2020); reprinted in HAD (October 2022)

Adagio in Three Movements, Reflex Fiction (October 2019)

Hunger, Atlas & Alice (September 2019); reprinted in FlashFlood (National Flash Fiction Day, June 6, 2020)

Promethea, 100 Word Story (April 2019)

A Stone’s Throw from Home, JMWW Journal (March 2019)

Scarves, Zizzle Literary Magazine (debut print issue; October 2018)

All for Tulips, The Bitter Oleander (print, April 2018); reprinted online here

Nature., SmokeLong Quarterly (October/December 2017)

This Violent and Cherished Earth, Cleaver Magazine (December 2017)

Poetry

Working for an Oil Company Conglomerate Will Get You Perks Like This, Okay Donkey (April 2022)

Slow Leak, Stanchion Literary Magazine (print; December 2021)

You Could Take Care of Me, HAD (June 2021)

If, Lost Balloon (March 2021)

10 Ways to Stop Hungering for More, EcoTheo Review (December 2020)

The Elephant in the Street, Cease, Cows Magazine (April 2020)

Profile, Derelict Lit (August 2019); originally published in Mulberry Fork Review (August 2015)

Nonfiction

The World I Will Not Taste, SugarSugar Salt Magazine (reprint; July 2024)

The World I Will Not Taste, Forge Literary Magazine (May 2022)

On the Spiritual Edge, Outside Florence, Scrawl Place (December 2021)

(Review) Wild Life: Collected Works from 2003–2018, by Kathy Fish, Colorado Review (August 2019)

Push Down and Turn, Triangle House Review (April 2019)

Origins: “A Stone’s Throw from Home,” JMWW Journal (April 2019)

(Review) Aerialists, by Mark Mayer, Colorado Review (April 2019)

A Review of New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction, The Compulsive Reader (October 2018)

(Review) Sherrie Flick’s Thank Your Lucky Stars, SmokeLong Quarterly (July 2018)

(Review) No Other Form but This: Nothing Short of 100: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story, SmokeLong Quarterly (May 2018)

Remembering Jules Romains’s The Death of a Nobody, Ploughshares blog (January 7, 2018)

Learning to See Again, with Annie Dillard, Essay Daily (March 27, 2017)

Lost & Found: Cheryl Pappas on Colette, Tin House’s Open Bar) (May 4, 2016)

Interviews

Cheryl Pappas on “Homework” and Hermit Crab Flash, Micro Podcast (May 2021)

Smoke and Mirrors: An Interview with Cheryl Pappas, SmokeLong Quarterly (December 2017)

Nominations

Spent, HAD, Pushcart Prize 2021

The Elephant in the Street, Cease, Cows Magazine, Best of the Net 2020

Hunger, Atlas & Alice, Best Small Fictions 2020

This Violent and Cherished Earth, Cleaver Magazine, Best of the Net 2019

Anthologies

1985, Ghost Parachute (Spring 2021)

When I Called You, Brilliant Flash Fiction Anthology (Fall 2021)

Contests

After We’re Dead/Morning Bus/This Voicemail Is No Longer Taking Messages, 2023 American Short(er) Fiction Prize semifinalist

Hide and Seek, 2021 Arcturus 1816 Horror competition/finalist

Tending the Elephant, CRAFT Flash Fiction 2020/shortlist

The Clarity of Hunger, CutBank Chapbook Contest 2020/semifinalist

Awards and Recognitions

MacDowell Fellowship (June 2023)

Spent, HAD, Wigleaf Top 50 (June 2022)

Mass Cultural Council Fellowship Award $5,000 finalist grant (May 2022)

Every Day the House, Wigleaf Top 50 longlist (June 2021)

Black Rocks, Longform’s Fiction Pick of the Week (November 2020)