* The Sound: A Novel (2018)
* The Day of the Dinosaur: Stories (2016)
* Dirt Roads: A Novel (2015)
* When Water Sang Fire (2013)
* Everyone You Love Will Burn: A Novel (2011)
* The Teller (2008)
Short stories
* "Everything That Has Ever Been Written Can Be Destroyed" in Conjunctions: 68 (Summer/Fall 2019)
* "We Are All Ghosts Now" in Crazyhorse (Fall/Winter 2018)
* "The River Where We Drown" in The Best American Short Stories (October 2016)
* "The Secret Life of an Introvert" in The Best American Nonrequired Reading (August 2016)
* "This Is Us" in Black Warrior Review (Fall/Winter 2015)
* "The Dead Can't Dance" in The Southern Review (October 2015)
* "Our Little Kingdom" in The Best American Mystery Stories (August 2015)
* "Our Little Kingdom" in The Iowa Review (Spring/Summer 2015)
* "The Lost Children of Millbrook" in Conjunctions: 58 (Summer 2015)
* "The Man Who Lives Forever" in The Southern Humanities Review (Spring/Summer 2015)
* "The Man Who Lives Forever" in The Pushcart Prize XL: Best of the Small Presses (October 2015)
* "When You Wake Up" in The Paris Review (Spring 2015)
* "The River Where We Drown" in Conjunctions: 57 (January 2015)
* "Everyone You Love Will Burn" in Guernica (September 2014)
* "Everyone You Love Will Burn" in Tin House (Summer 2014)
* "Good Bones" in Ploughshares (Summer/Fall 2014)
* "Good Bones" in the anthology Love and Other Crimes: Stories from the Underbelly of Romance (August 2014)
* "Good Bones" in The Pushcart Prize XXXIX: Best of the Small Presses (October 2014)
* "The Day of the Dinosaur" in The Georgia Review (Spring 2014)
* "The Day of the Dinosaur" in the anthology The Best American Mystery Stories (August 2014)
* "The Day of the Dinosaur" in the anthology The Pushcart Prize XXXIX: Best of the Small Presses (October 2014)
* "The Day of the Dinosaur" in the anthology The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror (December 2014)
* "The Day of the Dinosaur" in The Best American Short Stories (October 2015)
* "All Our Stories Are of Ghosts" in The Southern Review (January 2014)
* "The Teller" in Mississippi Review (Spring 2014)
* "The Teller" in the anthology The Southern Hum: Stories of the South (February 2014)
* "The Teller" in the anthology The Best American Mystery Stories (August 2014)
* "The Teller" in the anthology The Pushcart Prize XXXVIII: Best of the Small Presses (October 2013)
* "The Teller" in the anthology The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror (December 2013)
* "The Things That Last" in The Missouri Review (March/April 2013)
* "The Things That Last" in the anthology Best Microfictions 2014 (January 2014)
* "The Things That Last" in the anthology Micro Madness: 100 Very Short Stories (March 2014)
* "The Things That Last" in the anthology Norton's Flash Fiction International 3 (April 2014)
* "The Things That Last" in the anthology The Pushcart Prize XXXVIII: Best of the Small Presses (October 2013)
* "Where the River Dies" in Shenandoah (Spring 2013)
* "Where the River Dies" in the anthology The Pushcart Prize XXXVII: Best of the Small Presses (October 2012)
* "The Things We Did to Her" in The Gettysburg Review (Winter/Spring 2012)
* "The Things We Did to Her" in the anthology The Best American Mystery Stories (August 2012)
* "The Things We Did to Her" in the anthology The Pushcart Prize XXXVII: Best of the Small Presses (October 2012)
* "The Things We Did to Her" in the anthology The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror (December 2012)
* "The Lost Dog" in Shenandoah (Fall/Winter 2011)
* "The Lost Dog" in The Pushcart Prize XXXVI: Best of the Small Presses (October 2011)
* "The Lost Dog" in the anthology Best Microfictions 2012 (January 2012)
* "Dead Girl" in The Southern Review (October 2010)
* "Dead Girl" in The Pushcart Prize XXXV: Best of the Small Presses (October 2010)
* "Dead Girl" in the anthology The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror (December 2010)
* "Dead Girl" in the anthology Year's Best Weird Fiction: Vol. 1 (December 2011)
* "The Thing" in The Gettysburg Review (Winter/Spring 2009)
* "The Thing" in the anthology The Pushcart Prize XXXIV: Best of the Small Presses (October 2009)
* "The Thing" in the anthology Year's Best Weird Fiction: Vol. 2 (October 2011)
* "The Old Guy Who Lives Across the Street" in Mississippi Review (Spring 2009)
* "The Old Guy Who Lives Across the Street" in the anthology New Stories from the South: The Year's Best (October 2009)
* "The Old Guy Who Lives Across the Street" in the anthology The Pushcart Prize XXXIV: Best of the Small Presses (October 2009)
* "Dead Girls" in The Southern Review (January 2009)
* "Dead Girls" in New Southern Voices: An Anthology of Fiction from the Fellowship of Southern Writers (August 2009)
* "The Old Guy Who Lives Across the Street" in the anthology The Pushcart Prize XXXIV: Best of the Small Presses (October 2009)
* "Dead Girls" in the anthology The Year's Best Weird Fiction (December 2010)
* "The Old Guy Who Lives Across the Street" in The Best American Mystery Stories (December 2011)
* "Dead Girls" in the anthology Year's Best Weird Fiction: Vol. 2 (October 2011)
* "Dead Girls" in the anthology The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror (December 2011)
* "The Old Guy Who Lives Across the Street" in The Best American Mystery Stories (December 2011)
* "The Old Guy Who Lives Across the Street" in the anthology Year's Best Weird Fiction: Vol. 3 (October 2012)
* "The River Where We Drown" in Conjunctions: 57 (January 2015)