Published writing
Fiction, poetry, op-eds, reviews and policy work, all in one place.
Fiction and poetry
- Naked Parrot, Thimble Literary Magazine
- Spirals, BULL
- Advice, Little Old Lady
- A Memory in Four Acts, After Happy Hour Review, Issue 23
- Your Father’s DUI, Assignment, Winter 2025
Op-eds
- A better way to measure student success, The Arizona Republic
- Let’s work toward a school funding formula for all students, Clarion Ledger
- How will school vouchers help my students?, Clarion Ledger
- How we Mississippi teachers bucked the trend and taught our kids how to read, Newsweek
- How the war in Gaza can teach students empathy, The Nevada Independent
- It’s up to us to create a culture of trust, The Hechinger Report
- Teachers can’t thrive in a vacuum, The Tallahatchie News
Reviews and criticism
- Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice and the myth-making machine of American democracy, Mid-Theory
- Who’s Afraid of Gender?, Rain Taxi
- Rainbow Rainbow by Lydia Conklin, Compulsive Reader
- Finish What We Started by Isaac Arnsdorf, Compulsive Reader
The Feedsack
I’m editor-in-chief of The Feedsack, an online magazine of culture, politics and poetry.
In the news
- Colleges dropped the SAT and ACT. Here’s why many high schools didn’t., The Wall Street Journal
- A new education technology plan takes on the digital divide, Chalkbeat
- Mentorship program works to retain new teachers, Mississippi Today
- West Tally teacher selected as program fellow, The Tallahatchie News
- FSU and a Mississippi school district celebrate winners of Emmett Till Archives contest, Florida State University News
- Teach Plus profile