Book

Half-Life of a Secret: Reckoning with a Hidden History,  University Press of Kentucky, 2023

Essays

• “Smoke Light,” wildness, October 2024
• “My grandfather helped build the bomb. ‘Oppenheimer’ sanitized its impacts,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 2023 (Rieser Award winner)
• “Emily Strasser Reckons with a Family Secret,” The Bitter Southerner, July 2023
• “The All of It,” Gulf Coast, Winter/Spring 2021
• “The Secrets of Deviled Eggs,” The Bitter Southerner, November 2020
• “My Grandfather and the Bomb that Destroyed Hiroshima,” The Telegraph, August 2020
• “Gay Day at the Fair,” Entropy, February 2020
• “A Secret City Opens Up,” Curbed, August 2018
• “Bombed Without a Bang: The Nuclear Crisis We’re Already Living,” Catapult, October 2017
• “Exposure,” Colorado Review,” Summer 2016 (Pushcart nominee, notable in Best American Essays 2017, AWP Intro Award Winner 2016)
• “Homeplace,” Ploughshares, Winter 2015-16 (Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Contest Winner 2015, notable in Best American Essays 2016)
• “Beneath the Eyes of the Buddha,” Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, Winter 2015
• “Letter from Hiroshima,” Guernica, August 2015
• “The weight of a butterfly,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, February 2015
• “The Chair,” Guernica, February 2015
• “Signal Fires on the Tibetan Plateau,” Guernica, January 2014
• “Shelter,” blog series, Nowhere, January – June 2014
• “Air-Conditioner Bombs,” The New York Times, January 2013

Fiction

• “Albatross,” Dark Mountain, Issue 27, April 2025
• “The All of It,” Gulf Coast, 2021

Awards

• Minnesota Book Award Finalist, Memoir & Creative Nonfiction (2024)
• Reed Prize in Environmental Writing, Southern Environmental Law Center (2024)
• Rieser Award, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (2024)
• Chautauqua Prize, Finalist (2024
• McKnight Fellow in Writing (2019)
• Olive B. O’Connor Fellow in Creative Writing, Colgate University (2018-2019)
• Notable essays listed in Best American Essays 2016 and 2017
• AWP Intro Award – Nonfiction (2016)
• W.K. Rose Fellowship in the Creative Arts (2016)
• Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant (2016)
• Minnesota State Arts Board Grantee (2016)
• Ploughshares  Emerging Writer’s Contest Winner, Nonfiction (2015)
• Gesell Award in Nonfiction (2015)
• Hawkinson Foundation for Peace and Justice Scholar (2015)
• Walter H. Judd International Graduate & Professional Fellowships (UMN Global Programs and Strategy Alliance, Summer 2015)
• Scribe for Human Rights Fellowship (UMN Human Rights and Creative Writing Programs, Summer 2014)

Audio

• Podcast: “The Bomb,” BBC World Service
• Interviews: BBC Newsday, Over to You BBC, The Moncrieff Show

Press

• Interview: In Our Backyard Podcast (December 2020)
• Interview: iNews (August 2020)
• Reviews of “The Bomb:” The Guardian, Financial Times, Radio Times, Daily Mail, Esquire