Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews & Interviews!
Recent work
An Interview with JoeAnn Hart, author of Arroyo Circle: Cleaver
“Birds We’ve Known”: Cutleaf
“Our of the Pure White” and “Embouchure”: Featured Writer, LEON Literary Review
“Oranges and Lemons” (Funicular, print only): a Canadian musician, Alex Vissia, wrote a song based on this story. Here’s the video.
“A Fiction Review: When We Are Known, or A Brief Natural History of Women by Sarah Freligh” (Heavy Feather Review)
“Eurydice” (Litro Magazine)
“What Cannot Be Said Outloud and Finding the Truth in a Moment” (In Conversation with Mud Season Review Editor Ann Fisher)
“Sisters of the Sacred Well” (Mud Season Review)
“High Water” (Switch)
“The Magus” Orca
“The Silent Bell” (Grande Dame Literary)
“On Solitude” (Cult Magazine)
“Vin du Pays” (Emerge Literary Journal)
“Dice” (Bending Genres)
“Last Call” (Hyacinth Review)
“InConversation: Judith Baumel with Catherine Parnell” (Thorny) (The Brooklyn Rail)
Older Work
“Mud” West Trade Review
“InConversation: Martha Cooley with Catherine Parnell” (The Brooklyn Rail)
“Highway Lotto” (50 Give or Take)
“Welcome to the Train Wreck” (Cleaver)
“The Transfer” (Free State Review)
“InConversation: Judith Baumel with Catherine Parnell” (Passeggiate) (The Brooklyn Rail)
“Beautiful Joe, The Dog Who Taught Us Empathy” (Tenderly)
“A Swarming Continuum” (Barnhouse)
“Whiteout” (Redivider)
“The Human Cost: Discussing Political Storytelling” (The Rumpus)
“Women and War Literature” (The Brooklyn Rail)
“At Home” (Jewish Journal)
“This” (TSR: The Southampton Review)
“Wisteria” (Post Road)
“Morendo” (Baltimore Review)
“Tinto” (slush pile magazine)
“The Poetry Dress Project” (excerpt from “Sirens”: Mass Poetry Festival)
“Sirens” (Painted Bride Quarterly)
“Peace Comes Dropping Slow” (Consequence Magazine)
“No One Gets To Stay” (roger: an art and literary magazine)
“Why I Love Linda Jean” (Diverse Voices Quarterly) (View PDF)
“LipSex” (Another Book, Temporary Press)
“Some People Like a Bit of Color” (Stone’s Throw Magazine)
“Tranquila” (Dos Passos Review)
“Dedication” (Dedicate Your Vote)
“Tragically Hip” (Express the Real Me)
“If It’s Heavy It’s Ripe: On Writing and Political Sentiment” (The Review Review)
“The War after the War: The Other Side of Grief: The Home Front and the Aftermath in American Narratives of the Vietnam War” (William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences)
Reviews
“Complicit: Shannon Cain’s The Necessity of Certain Behaviors” (Salamander Magazine)
“Three Debuts: C. D. Collins’s Blue Land, Siobhan Fallon’s You Know When the Men Are Gone, Anne Germanacos’s In the Time of the Girls” (Salamander Magazine)
“The Island: Once the Shore by Paul Yoon” (Salamander Magazine)
“Double Indemnity: New Stories from the South edited by ZZ Packer” (Salamander Magazine)
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Special Correspondent. Reviewed novels by Geraldine Brooks, André Makine, Jennifer Haigh, Steve Almond, Jenna Blum, Hannah Tinti, Susan Vreeland, Ursula Hegi, Christopher Castellani, and many more.