The Box in Which We Live
University of Iowa Press; Fall 2026
Winner of the 2026 John Simmons Short Fiction Award
Thousands of Shredded Scraps of Paper Located across Five Landfills, That if Pieced Together Form a Message
The Cupboard; 2019
“Use in the classroom to discuss: segmented narratives; internal structures; furtive performances of the personal; speech acts; codes; trickster figures; paper as material object; first-person narrative strategies; the weight of witness; (state of) being down and out; observation and surveillance; political critique; conspiracy theories; living in late-stage capitalism; automation; relay races; place as repository of memory; place studies; regionalism; literature of the mountainous West; Tuba City; “America”; basements; factories; daiquiris; tubas.” - “Teaching Notes”
Interview with Jon Riccio at Sonora Review
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