"The Urg" Wins Best of the Net 2019

Best of the Net 2019 Anthology (Cover image: "Surrendered to the Air" by Rhonda Lott)

I’m so honored and excited and humbled to share that my short story “The Urg” was announced as a winner of Best of the Net 2019. It is a dream come true to see my name written alongside the likes of Camille T. Dungy, Kristen Arnett, and Roxane Gay, and I am so incredibly grateful to Megan Giddings and Sundress Publications for selecting my work, as well as the entire team at Porter House Review for nominating my story. “The Urg” was originally published by Porter House Review, as the winner of their inaugural Editor’s Prize for Fiction.

Check out the Best of the Net 2019 anthology here, or read “The Urg” here.

Winner - Porter House Review Prize for Fiction

Please forgive the extremely late announcement, but I am so thrilled to share with you that my short story “The Urg” won the inaugural Porter House Review Prize for Fiction in March 2019! I completed this story while working with Willy Vlautin and Jack Driscoll at Pacific University, and am so, so grateful for their advice, feedback, and support. I am also incredibly grateful to the team at Porter House Review, and so proud of an accomplishment that four years ago I believed impossible.

Read the “The Urg” here, but please be warned, it involves disordered eating, which may upset some readers.