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