Work
Salvation South
“A Completely White World” August 11, 2023
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The Bitter Southerner
“Are You a Seg Academy Alum? Let’s Talk” June 6, 2019
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“The Political Lives of Mississippi Women, in Black and White” October 25, 2018
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The New York Times
“In a Mississippi Restaurant, Two Americas Coexist Side by Side” October 8, 2018
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“With Trump Visit, Protest May Follow Opening of Civil Rights Museum” December 5, 2017
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“Trump, Rejecting Calls to Stay Away, Speaks at Civil Rights Museum” Dec. 9, 2017
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“The Divorcee’s French Class” October 15, 2014
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“Revival for a Sauce That Never Left” January 8, 2014
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Domestic Lives: “Safely Above the Parade.” September 1, 2011
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Modern Love: “The Rubble of My Marriage, Hidden by Katrina’s.” August 26, 2007.
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The Atlantic online
"Ending Fifty Years of Silence About Mississippi’s Freedom Summer” June 19, 2014
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The Washington Post
“What Bernie Sanders gets wrong—and right—about the motives of white Southern voters.” March 5, 2020
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"A Salute to Women Who Embrace the Role of Community ‘Mother’" May 6, 2022
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Rooted Magazine
“Mississippi Native: Ellen Ann Fentress
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The Baffler
“Through the Eyes of Men” April 30, 2018
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Dorothy Parker's Ashes
“A Crack in the Floor” October 2022
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“Rick Steves and the Human Condition” November 2021
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Faith & Leadership
"When Your High School Has a Racist History" August 18, 2020
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"Errin Haines: Called To Be a Voice of Clarity" October 13, 2020
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Scalawag
“Mississippi’s Truth-Telling New Museum” December 22, 2017
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Queen's Mob Teahouse
"Romanoffs, I Know You.” March 12, 2019
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Oxford American
"Private Household Occupations.” Oxford American Issue 85.
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"Foreign Son.” Oxford American Issue 78.
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“Lessons in the Past Tense” Oxford American, Issue 74. Online content.
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“Master of Crisis.” Oxford American. Issue 62.
The original Oxford American story is no longer available online. I drew on the 2008 OA story in this November 2022 story for the Mississippi Free Press >>
“Intimate Strangers.” Oxford American. Issue 69.
USA Today
“Jackson Must Find a Sense of Self” June 30, 2017
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storySouth
“Which Shows You What I Know.” Fall 2011
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New Madrid: Journal of Contemporary Literature
“It Used to Be Called Casino Magic.” Winter 2011.
Southern Women’s Review
“Your Call Is Important to Us.” Summer/Fall 2010.
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“Oyster Anxiety.” Spring 2010.
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Wilson Quarterly
“Welty’s Southern Discomfort.” The Wilson Quarterly. Autumn 2010.
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